onsidered a cure for consumption.
There would be as many as forty donkeys there of a morning and they would
be driven in pairs by boys round to the customers and milked at their
doors twice a day, which was a very large and profitable business.

On the Knightsbridge Road, opposite Gore House, stood an old tavern in
the middle of the road with some old stables and sheds, a great place for
the market carts and country wagons to stop at of a morning. Gore House
became the residence of the Countess of Blessington, her daughter and
Count D'Orsay, a very handsome and fashionable Frenchman. There were
large grounds attached to the house and they used to give very grand
garden parties both public and private, many of them for charities. I
recollect going to one given for the benefit of the Caledonian School.
It was a very grand and fashionable Fancy Fair with the guards and the
Caledonian School band, and Athletic Sports, trials of strength, sword
dances and the Highland fling, putting the stone and flinging the hammer,
the bag-pipes, and many other Scotch pastimes. The grounds were very
beautiful. The property was bought by the commissioners of the '51
Exhibition from their surplus funds, and the Albert Hall now stands on
the site.

The "Admiral Kepple" tavern at the top of College Street stood by itself,
with tea garden at the back, and at the west side in the Fulham Road was
the old parish pond, and a little farther west at the back of about where
the "Stag" tavern now stands was a large pond from which Pond Place took
its name. The present road in front of Chelsea Hospital was only a
footpath that was closed every Holy Thursday; and the parish authorities
beat the bounds, which they did on Holy Thursdays with the two beadles in
uniform, the churchwardens, overseers, and parish constable, and the
way-warden; and a great number of school children with willow wands would
perambulate the parish to beat the bounds, and would knock down the
obstruction and pass through the district called Jews' Row at that part,
a labyrinth of courts and passages of small and two-roomed houses. It
was called Jews' Row, bounded by White Lion Street on the east, Turk's
Row on the north, and Franklin's Row on the west, and was inhabited by
the very lowest and most depraved and criminal class both male and
female, many low lodging houses and thieves' kitchens, and the roadway
was at least one foot six inches lower than the path, and all along