This plaque features Samuel Pepys. It's located at Bear Gardens, SE1.
This plaque features Samuel Pepys. It's located at Bear Gardens, SE1.
On this site was built the Davies Amphitheatre 1662-1682 the last bear-baiting ring of Bankside visited by Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn. To the north from mid 16th century was the Bear Gardens, a bear-baiting ring visited by Queen Elizabeth I and replaced by The Hope Playhouse 1614-1656, built for plays and bear-baiting where Ben Jonson's play 'Bartholomew Fair' was first performed
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Connection of type 'located' between Samuel Pepys, Elizabeth I of England, John Evelyn, Davies Amphitheatre, London, and 2 others and Bear Gardens, SE1