Frost Fair

frost-fair

With the Thames frozen over, a Frost Fair is held at London Bridge in 1683.

“Coaches plied from Westminster to the Temple, and from several other stairs too and fro, as in the streets; sleds, sliding with skeetes, a bull-baiting, horse and coach races, puppet plays and interludes, cooks, tipling and other lewd places, so that it seemed to be a bacchanalian triumph, or carnival on the water.”

John Evelyn, 1683

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