Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
Where Somerset House meets the River Thames.
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Stairs to the Thames from the Somerset House garden (scroll down)
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Somerset stairs.
View showing the river frontage of Cuper’s Gardens, with a view across the Thames to old Somerset House landing stairs. Cuper’s pleasure Gardens had operated between c1690 and c1760 on the site occupied by the southern approaches to the first Waterloo Bridge, opened in 1817.
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