by HUGH DAVID
The most famous place of entertainment in London for two centuries, was the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, which closed, as the newspapers of the time described it, ' for ever ' on 25 July 1859.
Now, like so many great institutions of London past. it is no more.
Narrator Garard Green with SCOTT CHERRY
NIGEL GRAHAM , RICHARD HUW JON STRICKLAND
PATIENCE TOMLINSON and PETER TUDDENHAM
Producer ALAN haydoch. long wave only