In the edition of 30th September 1818, 'Black Dwarf' (a weekly political and satirical magazine), a journeyman cotton spinner wrote that,
'when the spinning of cotton was in its infancy and before those terrible machines for superseding the necessity of human labour, called steam engines, came into use, there were a great number of what were then called little master; men who with a small capital could procure a few machines and employ a few hands......But none are thus employed now; for all the cotton is broke up by a machine, turned by the steam engine, called a devil: so that the spinner's wives have no employment except that they go work in the factory all day at what can be done by children for a few shillings¹, four or five per week.....Steam engines came into use, to purchase which, and to erect buildings sufficient to contain them and six or seven hundred hands, required great capital...'

Reference: Thompson, E.P. - The Making of the English Working Class (Pelican, 1981) p229

In 1825 John Seaward and his brother Samuel Seaward granted a patent for 'propelling locomotive engines, vehicles, and other carriages...a steam-engine'

Reference:
Graces Guide https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Timeline:_Steam_Road_Vehicles

An account written in the 1870s said "Between the dances the girls promenade, or take supper with their male friends in the numerous restaurants, which are always crowded to excess by noisy people of both sexes, drinking Champagne and Moselle, or eating lobsters or devilled kidneys. Cold suppers are provided for the girls in an upper saloon, for which they are charged two shillings¹ and sixpence¹ a piece, without wine."

Reference: London Parks & Gardens Trust http://www.londongardenstrust.org/features/cremorne.htm