Mayor's Guides Newsletter Issue no. 4, December 1978

Reference Number: PP/195/4
Level of Description: Item
Title: Mayor's Guides Newsletter Issue no. 4, December 1978
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Various: Author
Date: 1978
Extent: Pages: 16
Description: Contents include: Famous visitors to Bath. No. 1. Major Andre by Eileen Gonin (first part of an account of the life of Major John Andre [1750-1780] who fought in the American Revolutionary War and whose possible sojourn in Bath in 1770 is displayed on a plaque on No. 22 The Circus), pp. 6-7; Famous visitors to Bath No. 2 Arthur Phillip (1738-1814) Admiral, Founder of Australia first governor of New South Wales by Rev. Gordon Spencer (an account of Phillip's expedition to Australia in 1789 with the first convicts to be transported there from Britain), pp. 8-9; How was the Holburne Museum laid out internally when the building was an hotel? (Includes a plan of the ground floor of the building in1796, the design of C. Harcourt Masters), p. 10; What do Bath people do?by John Chambers (information on the types of employment undertaken by Bathonians of working age in 1978 supplied by Manpower Services Commission's Regional Office in Bristol. Also includes a list of significant employers in the city at that time), p. 12
Subject: Admirals
American War of Independence (1775-1783)
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Employment
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