The 6.5 acre (c.2.5ha) Victoria Gardens, named after Princess Victoria had a Concert Room or Assembly Hall for concerts and dances, an archery ground, bowling greens, and promenades around the gardens. The gardens were not as popular as hoped and the venture proved to be unprofitable. Mr Hall, the owner decided to turn the gardens into a cemetery in November 1837 (TQ 67 SW 225). The remaining part of the former Victoria Gardens was divided from the cemetery by a high brick wall and continued as the Victoria Tavern and Tea Gardens. Summary from record TQ 67 SW 225: A cemetery laid out by the joint-stock cemetery company to the designs of Stephen Geary in 1838, on the site of pleasure gardens laid out and opened to the public in 1834 (TQ 67 SW 226).