St Helena tea-gardens, Lower Road, Rotherhithe, c.1860 (w/c on paper)

quote from British History Online website: "The St. Helena Tea-gardens, in Deptford Road, were opened in 1770, and, ... A newspaper advertisement in May, 1776, announces that there are "tea, coffee, and rolls every day, with music and dancing in the evening." [It was] chiefly supported by the lower classes of the neighbourhood, the families of men who work in the docks. In the summer there [were] brass bands and dancing platforms, singing, tumbling, and fireworks, for the delectation of the merry souls of "Redriff;" but the place has never attained more than a local celebrity, or affected to be a rival of Ranelagh or Vauxhall."