Mayor's Guides Newsletter Issue no. 28, Novermber 1986

Reference Number
PP/195/28
Level of Description
Item
Title
Mayor's Guides Newsletter Issue no. 28, Novermber 1986
Creator(s) & Administrative History
Various: Author
Date
1986
Extent
Pages: 29
Description
Contents include: Sir James Brooke by Priscilla Oliver (an account of the life of Sir James Brooke, first white Rajah of Sarawak who lived at 1 Widcombe Crescent, Bath in the nineteenth century), pp. 5-7; The Quest for Hetling by Alan Mason (research carried out on the Hetling (Ernst, Catherine, Rachel and William) family's association with Bath and with the Abbey Church House, previously called Hetling House. Includes a family tree), pp. 8-12; Note on the National Anthem, one of whose verses relates to Marshal Wade, p. 13; The Georgian method of building houses (cont.) by Philip Moore (contains an extract from a letter sent to the author from architectural historian Walter Ison regarding the laying out of the Bathwick Estate, particulary the building of Grove Street), pp. 14-15; The street plan of Bath: V. Landowners and their connections by John Ede (short notes on The Manor of Walcot, The Abbey Property: Duke of Kingston and Earl Manvers, Bathwick and the Pulteneys, the Duke of Chandos, Sir Hugh Percy formerly Smithson, Duke of of Northumberland and Prior Park. Includes genealogical trees of the Pierrepont family and Pulteney family), pp. 16-19; Special walks by Bob Rowe (including brief notes on St. Lawrence's Bridge, Railway or Skew Bridge, St. Mark's Church, Holloway including Paradise House and the Chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, Lyncombe Vale, Ralph Allen Drive, Abbey Cemetery, The Lodge at Church Street and St. Thomas a Becket Church at Widcombe, Prior Park, Widcombe Manor, Widcombe Terrace, Widcombe Terrace, Prior Park Buildings, Prior Park Road, White Hart Inn at Widcombe, Widcombe Parade/Claverton Street, Halfpenny Bridge, Lyncombe Hill and Southcote Place, pp. 21-26; Guiding the thousands by Alan Mason (notes on the number of people who went on the city tours give by the Mayor''s Guides in 1986), pp. 27-28
Subject
Genealogy
Houses
Soldiers
Streets
Tour guides
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