Mayor's Guides Newsletter Issue no. 9, June 1980

Reference Number: PP/195/9
Level of Description: Item
Title: Mayor's Guides Newsletter Issue no. 9, June 1980
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Various: Author
Date: 1980
Extent: Pages: 18
Description: Contents include: Landslips - Camden Crescent and Hedgemead by Philip Moore, pp. 3-4; Famous visitors to Bath - No. 5 John Palmer of Bath. The post must get through by Bruce Crofts(a short history of John Palmer of Bath and the postal service), pp. 5-6; Gambling in Bath during the Nash regime - Part 2. "E.O." to the rescue by Edward Jerrome (a history of the popular gambling game 'E.O. or 'Even and Odd' introduced to eighteenth-century Bath by Beau Nash and a reproduction of a contemporary ballad on the subject), pp. 7-10; Fire works and flops - vicissitudes of the Sydney Gardens - part 3 by Bruce Crofts (famous visitors to the gardens and its decline in the second half of the nineteenth century), pp. 11-12; Hanover Street - part 1 by Godfrey Abbott (a history of Hanover Street on the London Road originally intended as part of a much larger development), pp, 13-14; 'Water is best' by John Chambers (an explanation of the Greek inscription carved into the stone on the front of the Pump Room), p. 17
Subject: Gambling
Historic gardens
Postal services
Urban planning