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1826 Sights Jane Austen Saw Around Regency England. #JaneAusten #RegencyEra #Cartoon #England

Suzi Love Posted on October 2, 2023 by Suzi LoveAugust 20, 2023

1826 Sights Jane Austen Saw Around Regency England. 1826 From Regency Life Around England. The sights that Jane Austen and her friends and family would have seen around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)

  • 1826 Royal Wells At Cheltenham, England.Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
    1826 Royal Wells At Cheltenham, England. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
  • 1826 Arrival of the London Mail in Bristol. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
    1826 Arrival of the London Mail in Bristol. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
  • 1826 Procession from Gloucester to Berkeley. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
    1826 Procession from Gloucester to Berkeley. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
  • 1826 The Promenade At Cowes, England.Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
    The Promenade At Cowes, England. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
  • 1826 The Post Office, Bristol. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
    1826 The Post Office, Bristol. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
  • 1826 Point Street, Portsmouth, England. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
    1826 Point Street, Portsmouth, England. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
  • 1826 Gate House, Highgate, England. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
    1826 Gate House, Highgate, England. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
  • 1826 Oakland cottages were a well-known place to stay at Cheltenham Spa, England. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
    1826 Oakland cottages were a well-known place to stay at Cheltenham Spa, England. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
  • 1826 Entrance to Berkeley Castle, England. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
    1826 Entrance to Berkeley Castle, England. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
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Cheltenham, Spa Town In Jane Austen and Bridgerton Years. #janeAusten #Bridgerton #RegencyEra #HistoricTravel #BritishHistory #England

Suzi Love Posted on September 27, 2023 by Suzi LoveAugust 15, 2023

Cheltenham Spa, England: Pittville Pump Room: Cheltenham is a famous spa town within easy reach of the Cotswolds in in the county of Gloucestershire, England, and was a popular Georgian and Regency spa town where one could rest and recuperate. It became famous as a Spa town following the discovery of mineral springs in 1716, and claims to be the most complete Regency town in Britain. The Pittville Pump Room is an elegant Grade 1 listed Regency building and perhaps the most famous example of Regency architecture in Cheltenham, despite the town being filled Regency buildings. The Pittville Pump Room was the last and largest of the spa buildings to be built in Cheltenham.

Location: The Pump Room stands at one end of Pittville Park,  about two miles from Cheltenham’s town centre, and is a monument to more than 100 years of fame which Cheltenham enjoyed as a Spa town. The building is set in beautiful parkland and is surrounded on three sides by a grand colonnade of ionic columns opening into the impressive hall with its domed ceiling and original crystal chandeliers. The park has extensive open lawns surrounded by trees and ornate bridges and pathways lead around the lakes where swans and ducks swim.

Cheltenham Tour Map. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Cheltenham Tour Map. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
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History: The waters were first discovered in around 1715 on a site now occupied by Cheltenham Ladies’ College. In 1788 George III and Queen Charlotte came to take the waters and it was their visit that set the seal on Cheltenham’s future. After a visit to Cheltenham, a banker named Joseph Pitt commissioned the architect John Forbes to design a pump room that was to act as the centrepiece to his vision of a town to rival Cheltenham – a town he would call Pittville.

The foundation stone was laid on 4 May 1825 and the work completed in 1830. The laying of the foundation was celebrated by the ringing of the bells, firing of cannons, as well as a Masonic Procession which set out from the Masonic Hall in Portland Street. In the evening banquets were held at two of the town’s hotels and grand fireworks display was to be seen at Pittville. The building took five years to complete. Following disagreements between Forbes and the builder, a second architect, John Clement Mead from London, was employed to finish the interior. He designed the elaborate stoves which heated the building. The original official opening on 6th July, 1830 was postponed until 20th July, 1830 because of the death of George IV. A grand public breakfast and ball marked the occasion.

1830 Pittville Park. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
1830 Pittville Park. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
1831 Pittville Park. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
1831 Pittville Park. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
1834 View Of Pump House Outside Cheltenham. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
1834 View Of Pump House Outside Cheltenham. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Poster: Pittville Pump Room latest and grandest water spas built in Cheltenham.
Poster: Pittville Pump Room latest and grandest water spas built in Cheltenham.
1820s Early Joseph Pitt, Banker. Commissioned architect John Forbes to design a pump room as centrepiece to his vision of a town to rival Cheltenham, a town he would call Pittville.
1820s Early Joseph Pitt, Banker. Commissioned architect John Forbes to design a pump room as centrepiece to his vision of a town to rival Cheltenham, a town he would call Pittville.
1825 May Foundation Stone laid for Pittville. 1830 Pittville completed.Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
1825 May Foundation Stone laid for Pittville. 1830 Pittville completed.Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
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Building the Pump Room: The total cost of the project was over £40,000, and incredible price for that time. Like many bankers of his time, Pitt ran into financial difficulties, the building went out of favour and was sold in 1890 to the Borough of Cheltenham for £5,400, a fraction of the original cost. The building is decorated in Ionic style and the great hail reflects the genius of John Forbes with the spa opening on the north side and the gallery and dome surmounting the hall.

The grand building is 92 feet long by 43 feet, surrounded by a colonnade 13 feet wide the roof of which are supported by fluted Ionic columns 22 feet high. Along the facade stand three figures representing Aesculapius, Hygeia and Hippocrates, originally made by Lucius Gahagan of Bath. In its design, the building combines elements of both Greek and Roman architecture. It was modelled on the temple on Illisus in Athens, the engravings of which appeared in Stuart and Revett’s Antiquities of Athens (1762).

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The inspiration for the dome probably came from the Panthenon in Rome. A large ballroom was situated on the ground floor where even today visitors can attend music concerts, dances and other events. With a capacity of 400 and remarkable acoustics, it is Cheltenham’s finest concert venue. The spa with an oval pump room to the rear of the building are still there for the visitors to enjoy, available from a marbled pump and counter. A reading room, library and billiard room occupied the first floor.

Third well pumped surface water and housed the many pipes running the other wells. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Third well pumped surface water and housed the many pipes running the other wells. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Pump, Or Tabernacle, Opened in 1830. Dispensed unique salty mineral rich water. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Pump, Or Tabernacle, Opened in 1830. Dispensed unique salty mineral rich water. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Looking down the well. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Looking down the well. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Two wells with side tunnels supplied spa water. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Two wells with side tunnels supplied spa water. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Diagram of the pump.Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Diagram of the pump.Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
View from pump house upper level.
View from pump house upper level.
Side View. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Side View. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Rotunda. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Rotunda. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Rotunda and exterior of building. Rotunda. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Rotunda and exterior of building. Rotunda. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Ionic columns surrounding the Pump House. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Ionic columns surrounding the Pump House. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Exterior with Ionic columns. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Exterior with Ionic columns. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Exterior Brick and Windows. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Exterior Brick and Windows. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.

Fashion History: “Cheltenham will be the summer village of all that is fashionable and all that is dignified; the residence of the royal ” family being a thing quite new so far from the metropolis . Already we hear of nothing but Cheltenham modes — the Cheltenham cap — the Cheltenham bonnets — the Cheltenham buttons — the Cheltenham buckles , in short all the fashions are completely Cheltenhamized throughout Great Britain.” via 1826 Griffith’s New Historical Description of Cheltenham and Its Vicinity.

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Second World War: The Pump Room housed British and American army personnel, when dry rot was allowed to creep through the structure unchecked, and only after the war was the full extent of the damage revealed. Plaster, brickwork, timber: nearly everything had been affected. The dome was only held in position by a shell of plaster; the timber had been eaten away by the fungus.

The Duke of Wellington: Public subscriptions carne to the rescue, which were accompanied by Public Works grants and Historic Building Council contributions. A total of £43,250 was raised and by 1960 the building was partially restored to its former glory and reopened in 1960 by the Duke of Wellington. The old card room had been replaced by a new foyer, cloakrooms and second staircase, and heating and new lighting were in stalled.

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Recent History: In 2003, the old Victorian wells were leaking and allowing ground water to dilute the natural mineral water so Pittville Pump Room no longer qualified as a spa and the well was shut down. The spa was then repaired and reopened so visitors can taste the only alkaline spa water in the country. The Pump Room’s old maple-strip floor was replaced with a stunning English oak floor, better flooring found for the ball room, and old pipes replaced. Nowadays the Pittville Pump Room is in use most days of the year for private and public functions and is one of Cheltenham’s most popular wedding venues. The venue is also used frequently by orchestras, choirs and chamber groups because it has stunning acoustics.

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1820 ca. Brass Inlaid Writing Box, English, By William Dobson, London. #RegencyEra #Antiques #writing

Suzi Love Posted on September 25, 2023 by Suzi LoveSeptember 16, 2023

1820 ca. Writing Box, English. Rosewood and brass inlaid writing box by William Dobson, The Strand, London. Makers label, gilded candle holders, ink wells. via antiques-atlas.com. Portable boxes for writing materials existed for many centuries but in the last decades of the 18th century socio-economic circumstances in England necessitated the wide use of a portable desk in the form of a box which could be used on a table or on one’s lap. Hence “Lap Desk”.

1820 ca. Writing Box, English. Outside View. Rosewood and brass inlaid writing box by William Dobson, The Strand, London. Makers label, gilded candle holders, ink wells. antiques-atlas.com
1820 ca. Writing Box, English. Writing Slope. Rosewood and brass inlaid writing box by William Dobson, The Strand, London. Makers label, gilded candle holders, ink wells. antiques-atlas.com
1820 ca. Writing Box, English. Inside View. Rosewood and brass inlaid writing box by William Dobson, The Strand, London. Makers label, gilded candle holders, ink wells. antiques-atlas.com
1820 ca. Writing Box, English. Inside Wood View. Rosewood and brass inlaid writing box by William Dobson, The Strand, London. Makers label, gilded candle holders, ink wells. antiques-atlas.com
1820 ca. Writing Box, English. Label View. Rosewood and brass inlaid writing box by William Dobson, The Strand, London. Makers label, gilded candle holders, ink wells. antiques-atlas.com
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Do you need more factual and visual information for your historical fiction? Fashion, music, peerage and customs 18th and 19th centuries. #GeorgianEra #RegencyEra #VictorianEra

Suzi Love Posted on September 16, 2023 by Suzi LoveSeptember 16, 2023

Do you need more factual and visual information for your historical fiction? History of fashion, music, peerage and customs in 18th and 19th centuries. Non-fiction series full of gorgeous pictures and engraved fashion plates. A visual history of fashion, music, peerage, social manners and customs from late 1700s to late 1800s, or 18th and 19th centuries.

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1811 Typical Regency Era Man’s Overcoat or Driving Coat As Worn By the Men In Jane Austen’s Life. #RegencyFashion #HistoricalFashion #JaneAusten

Suzi Love Posted on September 13, 2023 by Suzi LoveSeptember 11, 2023

1811  Typical Regency Era Man’s Overcoat or Driving Coat. Fashion Plate via Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien. Overcoats were called many names: Greatcoat, Carrick or Garrick Coat, Coachman’s or Driving Or Box Coat. With many shoulder capes, or pelerines, to keep rain and snow off the body.

1811 Typical Regency Era Man's Outdoor Overcoat.
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1827 ca. Mahogany Gentleman’s Dressing Box With Silver Topped Bottles, London. #Regency #Antiques #London

Suzi Love Posted on September 10, 2023 by Suzi LoveSeptember 2, 2023

1827 ca. Gentleman’s Dressing Box, London. Mahogany box with brass carrying handles, lid opens to velvet and leather interior with twelve engraved silver topped bottles, all with an engraving of an oak tree. Top tray lifts out to another tray of tools.

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1827 ca. Gentleman’s Dressing Box, London. Mahogany box with brass carrying handles, lid opens to velvet and leather interior with twelve engraved silver topped bottles, all with an engraving of an oak tree. Top tray lifts out to another tray. via Antique Tea Caddies, U.K.
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Jane Austen and contemporaries used boxes of metal, leather, or silks, decorated with jewels and engraving. #Travel #JaneAusten #RegencyEra #Antiques

Suzi Love Posted on September 5, 2023 by Suzi LoveSeptember 2, 2023

Craftsmen created containers of precious metals, leather, and silks and decorated them with jewels and engraving. Jane Austen and her contemporaries would have used writing boxes, linen boxes when travelling, boxes to hold their food and drink supplies while traveling by carriage, and decorative boxes to keep letters, ribbons, gloves, hairpins etc. Boxes, Cases, and Necessaires By Suzi Love, History Notes Book 11. books2read.com/suziloveBoxesCases.

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What did travelers take with them to make long journeys easier in past centuries? #Travel #JaneAusten #RegencyEra

Suzi Love Posted on August 27, 2023 by Suzi LoveAugust 4, 2023

How did people travel in past centuries? What did they take with them to make their long journeys easier?  Travel by road, ship, canal, or railway all took a long time and had dangers so people learned to prepare. And then, in the nineteenth century, road improvements, inventions, and scientific developments made travel more pleasurable. Travel and Luggage By Suzi Love History Notes Book 10 books2read.com/SuziLoveTravel

Horse Power To Steam. Various alternatives to horse power were tested in London’s streets during the 19th century. Steam powered road engines and trams proved too heavy and damaged the roads. Stationary steam engines were used to haul trams attached to a cable but these were only really effective on hills that we too steep for horses. There were also experiments with trams driven gas engines and battery electric power. but was successfully developed. Petrol engines were still primitive and unreliable in the 1890s. In 1900 the reliable horse still dominated the streets of London but new technology was to revolutionize road transport.

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Claridge’s Hotel, Mayfair, London, U.K. London’s Historic Places. #London #BritishHistory #ClaridgesHotel #travel

Suzi Love Posted on August 27, 2023 by Suzi LoveAugust 7, 2023

Claridge’s Hotel – London’s Historic Places Claridge’s was founded in 1812, during the Regency Era, as Mivart’s Hotel at 51 Brook Street, Mayfair, London, UK.

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Lord William Beauclerk leased the terrace house from the Grosvenor Estate with permission to turn it into a hotel run by James Edward Mivart, the anglicized name for French chef Jacques Mivart.  By 1838, the hotel grew to buy five consecutive houses along Brook Street, knocking down the walls to create one large hotel and Mivart prospered by introducing English county families to subtle French cooking to replace their traditional stodgy fare. Mivart designed the hotel for guests who wished to stay longer, so apartments were let by the month to foreign royalty and nobility who enjoyed the ambiance of the well-run hotel yet had the privacy of their own suites. The Prince Regent, who succeeded to the throne as King George IV in 1820, had a suite of rooms permanently reserved for him so he could discreetly carry on his playboy lifestyle. 

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In 1827, The Morning Post noted that Mivart’s was the fashionable rendezvous for the high Corps Diplomatique. In 1854, the hotel was sold to Mr and Mrs Claridge who ran a separate hotel at 49 Brook Street. They combined the two operations to trade as “Mivart’s at Claridge’s” until, after Mivart’s death, the hotel changed its name to Claridge’s in 1856, adding “late Mivart’s” underneath. 

In 1860, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visited the Empress Eugènie of France, who had made Claridge’s her winter quarters, and Queen Victoria was so impressed that she wrote to her uncle, Leopold I, King of the Belgians, in glowing terms of Claridge’s. The hotel became so connected to royalty it was called an “extension to Buckingham Palace”.including the Grand Duke Alexander of Russia and King William III of the Netherlands, until by 1853, The Times decided London had just three first-class hotels- Mivart’s, The Clarendon in Bond Street and Thomas’s in Berkeley Square.

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In 1881, William Claridge’s failing health forced them to sell to a consortium, but the hotel consisted of several private houses and couldn’t be upgraded to compete with purpose built hotels cropping up all over London. The Savoy for example, built in 1889, offered lifts to all floors, electricity, en suite bathrooms and the best chef in Europe, Auguste Escoffier.  So in 1894, Richard D’ Oyly Carte, founder of the rival Savoy Hotel, purchased Claridge’s and commissioned CW Stephens, designer of Harrods, to rebuild the hotel from the ground up. The new Claridge’s opened in November 1898. 

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1897 Claridge’s Hotel, Mayfair, London, U.K. A perspective view of the new building showing the front entrance in Brook Street and the return front in Davies Street. Drawn by C. W. Stephens, architect.

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After World War I, Claridge’s flourished due to demand from aristocrats who no longer maintained a London house and Carte’s son, Rupert D’ Oyly Carte, added a new extension. During World War II, Peter II of Yugoslavia and his wife spent their exile at Claridge’s until on 17th June 1945, suite 212 was ceded by the UK to Yugoslavia for a single day to allow their heir, Crown Prince Alexander, to be born on Yugoslav soil.

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