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    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...
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  • Beargarden was an Australian new wave band from Melbourne which, though well regarded critically, failed to achieve widespread success. It evolved directly...
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    and then "dispatched" it rather easily. Animals portal Badger-baiting Beargarden List of dog fighting breeds Bull running Bullfighting Stamford bull run...
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  • the debut album by Australian new wave group Beargarden. It was released in 1986 on Chase Records. Beargarden were selected by Virgin Records Australia as...
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    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...
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    main locations in London for these exhibitions were the Westminster Pit, Beargarden and Old Conduit Fields. Historians are fairly confident that the Old English...
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    Holmes story The Adventure of the Empty House by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Beargarden Club – A St James's club in Trollope's Palliser novels Bellamy's - Guy...
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  • bear-baiting and similar activities occurred in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Beargarden was located at Hockley-in-the-Hole where the Coach pub is today, at the...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    and then "dispatched" it rather easily. Animals portal Bear hunting Beargarden Bear-leader Badger-baiting Bull-baiting Baiting (blood sport) (includes...
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    success, but peaked at No. 1 on the independent charts. Gus Till (ex-Beargarden) briefly joined on keyboards until Duffield rejoined in December. In 1982...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    mixed and mastered" by Ross Cockle (Mother Goose, Australian Crawl, Beargarden) with the line-up of Shanahan, Diana Clark, Vicki King and Andrea Watson...
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    prosecution completely suppressed that notorious sink of cruelty and vice". Beargarden Hockley-in-the-Hole W. P. Lennox (1860). Pictures of sporting life and...
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  • Samuel Pepys describes visiting at least two prizefights held in London's Beargarden in 1667 – the contestants were tradesmen rather than fencing masters;...
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  • becoming known as an actor. Sackerson, the most famous bear used in the beargardens of Elizabethan England. It is rumoured, though unlikely, that Sackerson...
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  • 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...
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  • Victoria, in late 1986/early 1987, and produced by Olsen and Gus Till (Beargarden and Models). The album was followed in September 1988 by a self-titled...
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    amusement of the court. The King requested Edward Alleyn, Master of the Beargarden, to acquire the three largest and most courageous dogs. The event was...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • depiction of England as a "perfect beargarden", writing "perhaps because we are more aware than ever before what a beargarden the whole world is, we see in...
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  • 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...
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  • Henslowe and Edward Alleyn as part of their bear-baiting operation at the Beargarden, and may have been tame enough in 1611 to use in the staging of Oberon...
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  • 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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