Brief Description
Vauxhall Gardens was a public pleasure gardens attached to the Grape and Compass Coffee and Tea House. The site was described in Scholes's Manchester and Salford Directory (1797) as belonging to Robert Tinker. The name was changed to Vauxhall Gardens in 1814. Tinker died in 1836 and the property passed to a Mr Buckley who made a fortune out of the sand on the site. The site is now lost. It was shown as waste ground, probably a quarry site, by 1895.
- History
Period
- 18th Century
- References
References
- University of Manchester and University of York, {A Survey of Historic Parks and Gardens in Greater Manchester}, York, 1994A Survey of Historic Parks and Gardens in Greater Manchester
Contributors
Greater Manchester Archaeological Unit
Lancashire Gardens Trust