Fifth Viscount Torrington et al. in Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire - 3 July, 1784
from A Tour to North Wales, 1784, pages 138–140:
The view from the hill over Llanvair, and the stream beyond it, meandring betwixt woods, aided by a glittering setting sun, was truly enlivening; as well as the sound of the church bells, and the buz of the people: but, too soon, I discover’d the little town to be throng’d with market folk, and uproar. T.B. came forth to say, that at the Goat ale-house (to which we had a recommendation) there were no horse-lodgings; and so, he had try’d the Cross-Foxes, (the arms of Sr W. W. Wynn) where, at last, the horses … more >>
John Byng, A Tour to North Wales, 1784. In C. Bruyn Andrews (ed.), The Torrington Diaries Containing the Tours Throughout England and Wales of the Hon. John Byng (Later Fifth Viscount Torrington) Between the Years 1781 and 1794, volume 1 (London, 1934), p. 138–140. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1546522284766 accessed: 8 November, 2024
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hide composersviolin music to accompany dancing | |
church bells |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 3 July, 1784 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, in public |
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