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CREMORNE GARDENS , formerly a popular resort by the See also: side of the See also: Thames in See also: Chelsea, See also: London, See also: England
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Originally the See also: property of the See also: earl of Huntingdon (c
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1750), See also: father of See also: Steele's " See also: Aspasia," who built a mansion here, the property passed through various hands into those of See also: Thomas Dawson, Baron Dartrey and Viscount Cremorne (1725-1813), who greatly beautified it
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It was subsequently sold and converted into a proprietary place of entertainment, being popular as such from 1845 to 1877
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It never, however, acquired the fashionable fame of
See also: Vauxhall, and finally became so See also: great an annoyance to residents in the neighbourhood that a renewal of its licence was refused; and the site of the gardens was soon built over
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The name survives in Cremorne Road
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