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Buxton - The Crescent, New Baths, etc, 1854. Creator: Edmund Evans.

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Buxton - The Crescent, New Baths, etc, 1854. Derbyshire spa town: '...one of the most celebrated watering-places in England for the cure of gout and rheumatism...The first great thing which the Devonshire family did for Buxton, and which has more than anything else contributed to its prosperity, was the erection of the Crescent - a piece of architecture which, for elegance and simplicity of structure, is unsurpassed...The Crescent was built by the late Duke, after a design by Mr. Carr, a well-known provincial architect, during the year 1789...This building is divided into one hotel (St. Anne's) and three boarding-houses (Dicklin's, Smiltor's, and Gregory's)...The Buxton waters have been analysed over and over again by different physicians, and with different results; and no one has yet found out the particular ingredient which is so beneficial to gouty and rheumatic persons'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.

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23,7Mo (2,0Mo) / 33,0cm x 18,0cm / 3900 x 2122 (300dpi)

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