Mayor's Guides Newsletter Issue no. 7, September 1979

Reference Number

PP/195/7

Level of Description

Item

Title

Mayor's Guides Newsletter Issue no. 7, September 1979

Creator(s) & Administrative History

Various: Author

Date

1979

Extent

Pages: 19

Description

Contents include: Bath's black buildings (a response by Chris Cook to the article in Newsletter Issue No. 6 and a reply from Nick Jones, the author of that article), pp. 2-3; How did 'the Magna Carta' wall come about: What does it represent? by Margaret Withers (an article on the Magna Carta text that once decorated the outside wall of Phillips and Jollys Auction Rooms in John Street later Hall and Woodhouse bar and restaurant), pp. 4-6; Editor's note on the ommission of the penultimate paragraph of Bruce Crofts article on John Wesley in Newsletter Isue No. 6 and now printed in No. 7; Leprosy in Bath by Audrey Woods (a short article that mentions a leper's house which stood on the site of Hetling/Hungerford House, the Lazour Bath and the Lazarette Hospital built in 1576 by John de Feckenham), p. 7; The water supply of Bath - part one by Victor Chivers (a short history from the medieval to the late Victorian periods), pp. 8-9; Margaret Ferguson 1905-1979 by Edward Jerrome (an account of the life of Margaret Ariell Ferguson, fiction author and Mayor's Guide), pp. 12-13; Fireworks and Flops: The Vicissitudes of Sydney Gardens, Bath - part 1 by Bruce Crofts (a short history of the gardens, its early managers and the Sydney Hotel designed by Charles Harcourt Masters), pp. 14-16; Famous visitors to Bath No. 4. William Beckford 1759-1844 (a book review of 'Beckford of Fonthill' by Brian Fothergill), pp. 16-17

Subject

Art
Historic gardens
Leprosy
Restoration
Water supply