Mayor's Guides Newsletter Issue no. 3, September 1978

Reference Number: PP/195/3
Level of Description: Item
Title: Mayor's Guides Newsletter Issue no. 3, September 1978
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Various: Author
Date: 1978
Extent: Pages: 18
Description: Contents include: Notes on Bath from 880 to 973 A.D. by Laurence Hinds (inlcudes a sketch map of how late Saxon Bath may have looked), pp. 4-5; The monuments of Bath Abbey by Michael Messer (notes on some of the many eighteenth and nineteenth century monuments), pp. 6-7; Trees and shrubs of Gravel Walk (a list and description of the trees and shrubs along Gravel Walk from the steps at Queen's Parade westwards to the Royal Crescent compiled with help from Bath City Council Parks Department), pp. 8-9; Shame it's a sham: a look at Sham Castle by Dennis Calley (a short history of the structure on Claverton Down traditionally said to have been built by Ralph Allen as an ornamental feature in the landscape to be seen from his Town House but more likely to have been built by Allen to have advertised the quality of Bath Stone from his quarries at Combe Down), p. 10
Subject: Anglo-Saxon period
Follies
Memorials
Monuments
Newsletters
Trees