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Old and New London
… Gardens), the "Adam and Eve" owned a sort of miniature menagerie, "when it could boast of a monkey, a heron, some …
Old and New London
… to have been a charitable man. The annoyance of such a menagerie of angular oddities must have driven Johnson more …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with a stone wall. Within this park the king maintained a menagerie of foreign wild beasts, including the porcupine, …
Old and New London
… are held. Nor shall we forget to make mention of Cross's menagerie and the elephant Chunee, or of the many eccentric …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… new buildings were erected in the kitchen garden, and a menagerie was built between the garden and the Grand Avenue. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… part of the remains; decorative buildings, for example the Menagerie and Temple Farm, also survive as part of the … S. side of the park, apparently used by Lord Halifax as a menagerie (SP 822534), lies on the N. side of an ovoid …
Henley: Urban Economic History
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… held in the town in 1876, when entertainments included a menagerie and a pony-powered roundabout, and continued as a …
The Environs of London
… of a park containing about 350 acres. In the garden was a menagerie containing a large collection of rare birds, which … coloured prints of rare and curious birds from the menagerie at Osterley. The trustees under Mr. Child's will …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… (104 a. in 1832) was used in the late 18th century as a menagerie 'full of birds come from a thousand islands which … 33. a (view, 1785). Countess of Jersey, op. cit. For the menagerie, see W. Hayes, Portraits of rare and curious birds from menagerie at Osterley Park (1794), and D.N.B. xxv. 293-4. It …