A documentary study of Victorian Bath No. 1

Reference Number: PP/174
Level of Description: Item
Title: A documentary study of Victorian Bath No. 1
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Davis, Graham: Editor
Various: Author
Date: 1979
Description: The work of a Bristol University Extra-Mural and W. E. A. class conducted by Graham Davis during the spring of 1979. Includes the following: Fireworks and Flops: the vicissitudes of Sydney Gardens, Bath by Bruce Crofts (the rise and fall in popularity of Sydney Gardens in the nineteenth century); Waterside trade and industry in Bath, 1830-1850 by Joan Eades and F. O. Grafton (includes information on the mills within the city centre, Twerton and Weston); Building stone from Combe Down and Odd Down by Connie Smith; 'Tear-'Em' Roebuck: the early life of John Arthur Roebuck, M. P. for Bath, and an account of the 1832 Election; Coroners Inquests in Bath, 1830-1835 by Sylvia Joyce
Subject: Brewing industry
Coroners records
Elections
Historic gardens
Limestone industry
Mills
Stone quarrying
Water transport