The Survey of Bath and District, No. 33 The magazine of the Survey of Old Bath and its associates
Reference Number
PP/2169/33
Level of Description
Item
Title
The Survey of Bath and District, No. 33 The magazine of the Survey of Old Bath and its associates
Creator(s) & Administrative History
Various: Author
Date
2018
Extent
Pages: 36
Description
Includes the following articles: News from the Record Office (retirement of Colin Johnston in July 2018, Index of Bath City Council Planning Applications online), pp. 2-3; John Spreat, toyman: making and purveying trifles and leisure goods from late Georgian to early Victorian times in Bath by John Macdonald (an account of the activities of Georgian retailer John Spreat and his descendands who operated shops from several addresses in central Bath), pp. 8-12; Avon Street, Peter Street and 'The Great Gap' by Mike Chapman (The twentieth-century history of part of the Avon Street area painted in 1940 by Therese Lessore entitled 'The Great Gap' which was later proposed as the site for the rebuilding of the General Hospital, otherwise known as the RNHRD or Mineral Water Hospital. It shows photographs of the derelict area in the 1950s and the plans of the proposed hospital which was never built because of the outbreak of war), pp. 13-19; The Pack Horse Inn/Farm, Old Midford Road by Robert T. Parfitt (the history of the original Pack Horse Inn sited on the Old Midford Road just outside the village of South Stoke), pp. 20-24; The Packhorse Inn, Old School Hill, South Stoke (a history of the present building known as the Packhorse Inn which may originally have been a Church House). Also includes a short history of the Charmbury family of South Stoke who owned and renovated the property in the seventeenth century), pp. 30-36
