For the 1980s New Wave band, see Beargarden (band).
The Beargarden from Visscher's Map of London, published in 1616, but representing the city as it was several years earlier.The Beargarden and the Rose Theatre depicted in Norden's Map of London, 1593
The Beargarden was a facility for bear-baiting, bull-baiting, and other "animal sports" in the London area during the 16th and 17th centuries, from the Elizabethan era to the English Restoration period. Baiting is a blood sport where an animal is tormented or attacked by another animal, often dogs, for the purpose of entertainment or gambling. Samuel Pepys visited the venue in 1666 and described it as "a rude and nasty pleasure". The last recorded event at the Beargarden was the baiting of "a fine but vicious horse" in 1682.
The Beargarden was a facility for bear-baiting, bull-baiting, and other "animal sports" in the London area during the 16th and 17th centuries, from the...
main locations in London for these exhibitions were the Westminster Pit, Beargarden and Old Conduit Fields. Historians are fairly confident that the Old English...
down the Beargarden, and to build a theatre in its place, for a fee of £360. (After the Hope was built, it was often still called the "Beargarden" in common...
Sackerson was a famous brown bear which was baited in London's Beargarden in the late 16th century. The bear appears in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of...
videos. One of his earliest screen performances was in the video for Beargarden's song The Finer Things. This video was directed by Richard Lowenstein...
powerful and good. The character of Melmotte is well maintained. The Beargarden is amusing,—and not untrue.... [T]he young lady with her two lovers [referring...
prosecution completely suppressed that notorious sink of cruelty and vice". Beargarden Hockley-in-the-Hole W. P. Lennox (1860). Pictures of sporting life and...
Music Report Albums Chart. Hutchence provided vocals for new wave band Beargarden's 1985 single release. On 19 May 1984, INXS won seven awards at the Countdown...
musician. He was lead vocalist for post punk bands The Ears (1979–81) and Beargarden (1982–86). He and the Ears were the inspiration for the 1986 film, Dogs...
Samuel Pepys describes visiting at least two prizefights held in London's Beargarden in 1667 – the contestants were tradesmen rather than fencing masters;...
refuge at Beargarden Road. At Woodsaw Mill Road, MS 436 turns east and away from the refuge. Past the second intersection with Beargarden Road, the road...
collapse of the public seating area, during a bear baiting on a Sunday, at Beargarden in 1583, which resulted in several deaths. Nathan presumably did not intend...
becoming known as an actor. Sackerson, the most famous bear used in the beargardens of Elizabethan England. It is rumoured, though unlikely, that Sackerson...
The Ear's Sejavka. At the time, Sejavka was a member of new wave band, Beargarden, and objected to Lowenstein and Hutchence's "noxious caricature" of his...
a license to "play before the Bears," or become an entertainer at the Beargarden, people will stop calling him a fool. John Ashton includes The Great Boobee...
presence of the Globe Theatre (mislabelled as "Beere bayting", that is the Beargarden) in a print made three years after it was demolished. Copying an error...
mixed and mastered" by Ross Cockle (Mother Goose, Australian Crawl, Beargarden) with the line-up of Shanahan, Diana Clark, Vicki King and Andrea Watson...
success, but peaked at No. 1 on the independent charts. Gus Till (ex-Beargarden) briefly joined on keyboards until Duffield rejoined the band in December...
depicted on the south bank are three theatres, The Swan, The Globe and the Beargarden, and the churches of St Mary Overie (rebuilt after a fire in 1212, later...
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