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The Perilous Pond: ‘the compleatest [pleasure bath] of a public nature of any in the kingdom’

Author - Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
Originally published in Volume 18 (2013-14)

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John Cleghorn, ‘The Old Fish Pond at Peerless Pool’, c.1825, reproduced in William Hone, The every-day book, or, The guide to the year (1825). Kemp’s house is seen at the far end of the pond
(Private Collection) — John Cleghorn, ‘The Old Fish Pond at Peerless Pool’, c.1825, reproduced in William Hone, The every-day book, or, The guide to the year (1825). Kemp’s house is seen at the far end of the pond (Private Collection)

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