Contents include: A duel at dawn by Steve Bransgrove and Dennis Calley (an account of the famous duel which took place on Claverton Down in 1778 between Count James Louis Rice and French nobleman, Viscomte Adolphe du Barry. Originally printed in 'The Link Snuffer'), p. 3; The River Avon by Chris Cook (some notes on the river as it flows through Bath), p. 4; Fact and Fiction - a Bath connection by John D. Ede (an account of a case pursued through the ecclesiastical courts by high churchman G. A. Denison, Vicar of East Brent and Archdeacon of Taunton which was heard at the Guildhall at Bath in July 1856. It is mentioned in Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers), p. 5; The water supply of Bath - part two by Victor Chivers (an account of Bath corporation's work in promoting sanitary reform by extending its contol over the city's water supplies), pp. 6-7; Fireworks and flops - the vicissitudes of Sydney Gardens - part 2 by Bruce D. Crofts (information on the Sydney Hotel later the Holburne Museum continued from part one in newsletter no. 7 and the entertainments available at the gardens in the nineteenth century), pp. 8-10; Gambling in Bath during the Nash Regime by Edward Jerrome (a short account of gambling in Bath in the eighteenth century), pp. 12-13; Re-erection of the John Wesley Plaque (on the building occupied by the Percy Boy's Club on Sunday, 16th December 1979), p. 15
