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| Cremorne Gardens |
| This gate is all that remains now of the once glorious Cremorne Gardens, one of London's great pleasure gardens in the Victorian era. For a small admission fee, revellers could witness ballets, concerts, weekly balloon ascents and fireworks displays on a 12-acre garden now mostly occupied by the Lots Road power station. It was finally closed in 1877. |
| American painter James Whistler painted the Cremorne Gardens several times. His painting Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket enraged John Ruskin to exclaim that Whistler had "flung a pot of paint in the public's face". An expensive libel action followed. |
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Madame Genevieve, the female Blondin, crossed the Thames here on a tightrope in 1861. |
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