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The Environs of London
… summer season, the price of admission being one shilling. Fireworks are occasionally exhibited; and a few times in the … representation of the siege of Gibraltar, consisting of fireworks and transparencies, the whole of which were …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… out very tastefully, and where concerts and displays of fireworks take place during the summer; in the same street …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… assemblages to public entertainments and exhibitions of fireworks, upon which occasions they are brilliantly …
Old and New London
… again observed Mr. Keyse, 'and I am sure you cannot expect fireworks!' However, he politely asked me to partake of a …
The Environs of London
… perspective, drawing, limning, engraving, sortification, fireworks, military discipline, the art of well speaking and …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… and the distribution of apples, and the evenings with fireworks, gunfire, and bonfires made with tar barrels … in 1824. 38 By the early 19th century bonfires and fireworks were also being discouraged by the corporation and …
A New History of London
… lighted throughout London and Westminster; and magnificent fireworks were played off on the Thames, over against …
A New History of London
… peace was celebrated in England, France, and Holland, by fireworks, illuminations, and other evidences of joy, in … preparation, and great misapplied expence, the English fireworks were played off in the Green park opposite the … of warlike instruments composed by Mr. Handel, the fireworks commenced with a royal salute of 101 brass …
Calendar of Border Papers
… my lord governor's ship went first up. Most of it was for fireworks and "sheut," but when she comes to London I intreat …