His daughter made the popular Marylebone tarts and cakes. "Tarts of a twelvepenny size," reads the advertisement of 1760, "will be made every day from one to three o'clock... The almond cheesecake will be always hot at one o'clock as usual." Once the Great Room for balls and supper had been erected on the site (1739–40), breakfasts were added to the schedule. Many of the foremost London musicians and composers including George Frideric Handel and James Hook performed works here, The original principal female singer was a Miss Faulkner and the orchestra was led by William Defesch. From 1763 to 1768 the Gardens were run by Thomas Lowe, who had been a singer at Vauxhall Gardens, with the musical management undertaken by Samuel Arnold who took over the ownership and management with the violinist Thomas Pinto which arrangement continued from 1769 to 1774. In 1758, under the direction of Trusler's son, the Gardens gave the English premiere of Pergolesi's opera La serva padrona (in translation). Hook was appointed organist and composer to the Gardens in 1769 and held an annual festival there every summer. The gardens were also famous for their regular firework displays, organised from 1772 to 1774 by Signor Torre. The Rose Tavern was later developed as a music hall and renamed "The Marylebone". The area was eventually built over in 1778. Later it became the site of the studios of BBC London 94.9 until September 2009. Notes External links Marylebone High Street, the Howard de Walden Estate Views of the Pleasure Gardens of London, by H.A.Rogers, 1896, Victorian London Marylebone Gardens, Regent's Park and Primrose Hill in literature and music References Melanie Doderer-Winkler, "Magnificent Entertainments: Temporary Architecture for Georgian Festivals" (London and New Haven, Yale University Press for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, December 2013). and . Peter Warlock, Songs of the Gardens, London, 1925. Biography of Samuel Arnold by Robert Hoskins on Naxos Records website. The London Encyclopaedia, ed. Weinreb and Hibbert, London, 1983 (). Buildings and structures demolished in 1791 Former parks and open spaces of London History of the City of Westminster Marylebone Pleasure gardens in England