Mayor's Guides Newsletter Issue no. 5, March 1979

Reference Number: PP/195/5
Level of Description: Item
Title: Mayor's Guides Newsletter Issue no. 5, March 1979
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Various: Author
Date: 1979
Extent: Pages: 15
Description: Contents include: Famous visitors to Bath. No 1. Major Andre by Eileen Gonin (concluding part of the account of his life. See Mayor's Guides Newsletter No. 4 for the first part of the article), pp. 2-3: Bath Abbey Church House by George Perrett (a short history of the house built c. 1570 for Edward Clarke of Chippley near Milverton in Somerset and which later become the two house of members of the Hungerford family. The building was known variously as Hungerford House, Lexington House, Mrs Savil's Lodgings, Skrine's Lower House and Hetling house), pp. 4-6; Famous visitors to Bath No. 2. Admiral Phillip by Gordon Spencer (Admiral Arthur Phillip's grave and memorial in Bathampton church. See Mayor's Guides Newsletter No. 4 for the first part of the article), pp. 6-7; What was the Circulating Library and Lottery Office in Milsom Street? by John Kite (a short account of the business run in the property in the nineteenth century originally by Frederick Joseph and then Eliza Williams), p. 12; "Shedding some light" (a short article on lighting in eighteenth-century which includes information on the oil lamps used and on the torches of the Link Boys, p.13.
Subject: Admirals
Housing
Lotteries
Memorials
Private libraries
Soldiers
Street lighting