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Tivoli Gardens, also known simply as Tivoli (Danish pronunciation: [ˈtsʰiwoli]), is an amusement park and pleasure garden in Copenhagen, Denmark. The park opened on 15 August 1843 and is the third-oldest operating amusement park in the world, [ 3 ] after Dyrehavsbakken in nearby Klampenborg , also in Denmark, and Wurstelprater in Vienna, Austria.
Vauxhall Gardens / ˈ v ɒ k s ɔː l / is a public park in Kennington in the London Borough of Lambeth, England, on the south bank of the River Thames.. Originally known as New Spring Gardens, it is believed to have opened before the Restoration of 1660, being mentioned by Samuel Pepys in 1662.
Jonathan Tyers was born on 10 April 1702, probably in Bermondsey, Surrey, and was the son of Thomas Tyers, a wool-stapler, and his wife, Ann. Jonathan married Elizabeth Fermor (1700–1771) some time in the early 1720s, and together they had four children: Margaret (1724–1786), Thomas (1724/5–1787), Jonathan, and Elizabeth (1727–1802).
Vauxhall (/ ˈ v ɒ k s (h) ɔː l ˌ-əl / ⓘ VOKS-(h)awl, -əl) [1] is an area of Central London, within the London Borough of Lambeth.Named after a medieval manor called Fox Hall, it became well known for the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.
Map of the Tivoli garden in 1823. After the first Tivoli closed, the musician Baneux reopened it in more modest surroundings as the Folie-Richelieu or Second Tivoli, located on grounds between n°s 18 and 38 of the Rue de Clichy, extending to the Rue Blanche, on a site first created in 1730 by Marshal Richelieu for his own entertainment, and subsequently belonging to Fortunée Hamelin [].
Vauxhall Park in November 2008. Vauxhall Park is a Green Flag Award-winning municipal park in Vauxhall, South London, run by Lambeth Council. [1] It occupies an 8.5-acre (3.4 ha) site, [2] and was created at a cost of around £45,000, [3] following a public campaign led by the suffragist Millicent Fawcett, the social reformer Octavia Hill and members of the Kyrle Society.
St Peter's, Vauxhall, 2014 Vauxhall, St Peter's nave interior. St Peter's, Vauxhall, is a Church of England church on Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, London SE11.. The church was planned in 1860 by John Loughborough Pearson, and built in 1863–64 together with schools, orphanage and vicarage, and is one only a few Grade II* listed buildings in the area.
"The Wisconsin Magazine of History: A Case Study in Scholarly and Popular Approaches to American State Historical Society Publishing, 1917–2000." Journal of Scholarly Publishing 44.2 (2013): 114–141.