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Add MS 74768
- Record Id:
- 032-002799875
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002799875
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023510678.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 74768
- Title:
- An Inventory of the Furniture Fixtures Plate Linen China Glasses & Effects The property of Mr George Bowles at the White Conduit Hotel Tavern & Tea Garden, Pentonville
- Scope & Content:
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White Conduit House was originally a small 17th-century ale-house in Islington, north London, which took its name from an adjacent water conduit. In the second half of the eighteenth century, a tea garden was established, and in the early 19th century it was a popular venue for concerts, dancing and firework displays. George Bowles became a proprietor in 1826 and with his partner built the new White Conduit House Hotel and Tavern which opened in 1829.
The inventory was compiled for him over a period of nine days from 7 September 1833. There is no evidence to explain why it was needed at that time as the property was not for sale. The appraisors worked systematically through the building recording in detail the structure and contents of the rooms from the ground floor tap room to the Front Dining Room with twelve original Hogarth engravings (f. 13), the new Ballroom (f. 18v), the Green Tea Room (f. 29), the Billiard Rooms (ff. 30 and 33), the Kitchen (f. 34) and the cellars. In the grounds they examined inter alia the Pleasure Garden with its Tea Boxes, the Comic Theatre, stables and outhouses and the 'Gas Apparatus' (f. 76). On f. 81 the inventory was signed Thomas and William Warlters & Co of Farringdon St. with a total appraisal value of £5339 7s 0d.
The house was closed for demolition in January 1849.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002799875
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002799875
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1833
- End Date:
- 1833
- Date Range:
- 1833
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- ff. 86. 180 x 225mm. Full binding of brown calf, blind tooled, with title and date gilt stamped on front cover. Metal clasp. Marbled paper fly-leaves and edges. Watermarks 1830-1833.
- Former Internal References:
- Deposit 9898
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from Motley Books Ltd of Stockbridge, February 2000
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Islington, Middlesex
- Related Material:
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Drawings, prints and engravings of White Conduit House with related newspaper cuttings can be found in Volume 2 of the Fillinham Collection in the British Library, shelfmark 1889.b.10/2 (79-133), and in the Crace Collection in the British Museum, (15 images at http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?searchText=crace+and+white+conduit ). The Fillinham volume includes particulars for the sale of the lease of the property in October 1839 (114-115), and a catalogue for the sale by auction of the effects in February 1849 (130-133). The auctioneers in the latter case were Messrs Warlters, Lovejoy & Son, and some items recorded in the 1833 manuscript inventory reappear in the printed sale catalogue of 1849.
See also Warwick Wroth, The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century (reprint London: Macmillan, 1979), pp. 131-140.