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Crowded holiday crowds as storms dampen but amusements surge
English holiday makers flocked to parks gardens and museums on Monday despite electrical storms and showers. Railways carried tens of thousands from London to country stations as crowds overwhelmed Crystal Palace Kew Gardens Hyde Park and Windsor State apartments. Temperance marches and a large cricket crowd added to a busy weekend city scene.
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England
Great Western Railway
London
Great Eastern
London and Tilbury
Gravesend
Southend
Crystal Palace
Fological Gardens
Kew Gardens
South Kensington Museum
Royal Horticultural Gardens
British Museum
Royal Academy
Tower
Windsor
Brighton
Metropolis
Lord’s Ground
Total Abstinence League
Hyde Park
Cardinal Manning
Victoria Park
Kenealy
Thames
Duke of Westminster
W. H. Grenfell
Cheveden
Taplow Court
Metropolitan Volunteer
London Rifle Brigade
Wimbledon
Queen’s Westminsters
Burnham Beeches
Moresby
Wallace
Johnstone
Johnston
Moresby Hall
Gibbs
Congregational Church
Parton
Blanchester Guardian
Beaconsfield
Gladstone
Sheffield Independent
Lord Beaconsfield
Downing-street
Pall Mall
Parliament-street
Greenwich