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Fanny Burney's stroll through Streatham

23/8/2021

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On this Day 23 August 1778 Fanny Burney and Hester Thrale visted the Shrubbery and Fanny recalled the occasion in her diary.

"After dinner I had a delightful stroll with Mrs Thrale and she gave me a list of all her good neighbours in the town of Streatham and she said she was determined to take me to see Mr Tattersall, the clergyman, who was a character and could not but be diverted with, for he had so furious and so absurd a rage for building that in his garden he has as many temples and summer houses and statues as in the gardens of Stow, though he had so little room for them that they all seemed tumbling one upon another"
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(Source JW Brown: St Leonard's Streatham. A guide to an ancient parish church that rose from the ashes after the fire in 1975) This book is available to purchase from the Society https://www.streathamsociety.org.uk/publications.html
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