BC - RECORDS OF BATH CITY COUNCIL AND BATH & NORTH EAST SOMERSET COUNCIL
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    - BC/9/3/24 - Mayor of Bath's appeals for floods in Bath

Accounts, bills, receipts, notes, a pamphlet, correspondence, and invitations, relating to funds raised for the relief of floods in Bath between 1882 and 1901

Reference Number: BC/9/3/24/18
Level of Description: Item
Title: Accounts, bills, receipts, notes, a pamphlet, correspondence, and invitations, relating to funds raised for the relief of floods in Bath between 1882 and 1901
Date: 1882-1901
Extent: Extent: 1 bundle
Description: This bundle contains a number of papers of different dates, and some undated papers. It is not clear why these papers were originally brought together.

1882:
Balance sheet for subscriptions
Bills and receipts
List of members of the Flood Committee.

1894:
A copy of the pamphlet: 'Record of the Great Floods in Bath. Re-Printed from the Bath Herald'. Plus accompanying note. The pamphlet contains details of the floods, the effects on various areas of Bath and the surrounding area, and details of relief work.
Notes from a baker offering hundreds of loaves of bread for the flood relief, dated 15 November 1894.
Torn receipts 1895.
Correspondence, accounts and minutes 1894-1895. Includes a letter dated 14 November 1894 from Charles Manby to the Mayor proposing a concert in aid of the flood relief, where Master Ernest Toy (aged ten) would play the violin.
Invitations to the Flood Relief Committee meeting on 19 November 1894.
Notes sent out to clergymen suggesting they hold collections for the flood relief dated 16 November 1894.

1901:
Correspondence, accounts, and bills for coal distribution dated January 1901.

Undated:
Accounts, rough notes, note relating to potential gift of £10 to the White family in Grove Street, who could not afford to pay to bury their child who had died in the flood.