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Description: | Hampton is scattered over a considerable space, and contains a large number of Villas and near it are Kempton Park Race Course and Hurst Park Race Course. The view shewn is taken as we look up river towards the Church and the Villas. Much is said about Garricks Villa, its contents and its visitors, by Horace Walpole, for Garricks dinners, his illuminated grounds and his night fetes attracted company of the first order. On the lawn near the waters edge is a miniature Grecian Temple of octagonal shape with an Ionic porch, the structure being designed for a summer house, in which for a time was placed Roubillacs Statue of Shakespeare removed after Garricks death to the British Museum, where it now abides. Passing Molesey Lock we now approach a building about which one might occupy the whole evening, in describing its historical associations, namely: | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | ThamesPilot | Subjects: | Lantern slide Church Parker Source to Sea | Temporal: | start=1911-01-01; end=1911-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Parker, W | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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