Sydney Gardens
Georgian pleasure garden turned public park, crossed by a canal and railway beneath iron bridges.
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This guide to Sydney Gardens in Bath takes you back to the seventeen-nineties, when these lawns were a paying pleasure garden and the biggest draw was a maze you entered on purpose to get lost. It follows the London clockmaker John Joseph Merlin and the swing he designed, and asks what a swing was really for in an age that prescribed motion as medicine. Gala nights, clockwork scenery and a balloon launch turn up along the way. Best heard on the central walk.
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