Fifth Viscount Torrington in Northampton - 7 June, 1790
from A Tour in the Midlands, 1790, page 154:
Pass Woburn; drag thro’ the sands; change horses near Newport: and, after a tedious crawl, reach Northampton at 8 o’clock. […] Here were quarter’d the Nthn. Regiment, whose drums rattled the Retreat with unusual clamour: surely these noises must be a sad, and dangerous nuisance.
cite as
John Byng, A Tour in the Midlands, 1790. 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 2 (London, 1935), p. 154. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1546532943175 accessed: 6 March, 2025
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| military drums | performed by the Northampton Regiment |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 7 June, 1790 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in public |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Thu, 03 Jan 2019 16:29:03 +0000
Approved on Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:22:20 +0000