Guide 1

Guide to the Belle Vue Gardens, near Manchester with a description of the Colossal Picture. Price One Penny, Manchester.

Abel Heywood & Son, Publishers, 56 and 58 Oldham Street.

(i-iv), (1), 2-16p (p.ii) Great Western Railway, Tourist Arrangements, 1872.

On and from May 13th for First, Second and Third-Class Tourist Tickets.

(p.1) 1872 in pencil at top of page.

p.2 History of Belle Vue.

1852 - 1st of 'monster' pictures - Bombardment of City of Algiers, by Messrs Danson & Sons of London.

1853 - the storming of Seringapatam, 1799

1854 - Burning of Moscow

1855 - Fall of Sebastopol ....

1857 - Siege of Gibraltar

1858 - View of Delhi? Messrs. Danson and Son

1859 - Palace of the Caesars.

1860 - Storming of Badajoz

1861 - City of Pekin

1862 - Battle of the Nile

1863 - Defence of Lucknow

1864 - American Civil War.

p.6 Description of the Music Hall : 74 yds long and 35 yds wide ... extensive dinner parties for which Mr Jennison is so famous' opp. plan of Belle Vue in 1872.

p.8 Approach : lions, once at Free Trade Hall symbolised Cobden's courage ... in closure Manchester & Liverpool Agricultural Show has been held ... western end ... addition to original building .... appropriated as a room in which families can be provided with crockery and hot water for making ... tea or coffee.

... 3d is charged, 2nd class upper room at opposite end, admission 2d per person. Marginal pencil marks in l.h.col.

Tea Room.

p.9 About 500 persons can be accommodated simultaneously with tea, ham, beef and salad .... large hall, to over 20,000 persons

MONKEY HOUSE

MENAGERIE

p.10. MUSEUM

... open-air orchestra ... octagonal THE LAKE. Pencil mss marginal notes. (See note at end of book. 25 to 30)

Boats ... let at threepence each person per half hour ....

p.11 HOT HOUSE AND FLOWER GARDENS: Greenhouse (open daily until 6 o'clock, Fernhouse, Fern and Tropical Plant House.

Admission ... whenever a gardener ... in attendance.

BEAR DEN .... stage where boats are let out ... A penny each person.

p.12 A Maze ... Hampton Court ... a penny for admission ... white-tower water supply ... other portion ... manufacture of ginger beer ....

AVIARY ... single-storey building, 44 compartments, 28 occupied by birds, & 16 by animals ....

p.13 NAPOLEON CROSSING THE ALPS.

p.16 The gardens are in excellent condition: the gallery has been considerably lengthened: the orchestra which stood at the end of the dancing platform has been removed; and a new one erected in the centre of the gallery.

The interior of the large saloon .... beautified by a large mythological painting of Mount Olympus, with "Jove convening the senate of the skies" shows the ... abilities of Messrs. Danson and Sons ... not confined to the production of ... out-door scenery.

Purple cover, advts. on versos.