Various: Author Bath and North East Somerset Council's print services: Publisher
Bath
Dartmouth Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath BA2 1AS
Date
2015
Extent
Pages: 43
Description
A magazine produced by and for the City of Bath Mayor's Honorary Guides. Contents of this edition are as follows: Turnpikes and toll houses of Bath by Ken Tatem, pp. 7-11; Vellore's various guises (a history of 'Vellore' once lived in by Charles Kemble, rector of Bath Abbey and which later became the Spa Nurses Home and Bath Spa Hotel) by Boyd Schlenther, pp. 12-14; The yellow front door: the intriguing case of 22, Royal Crescent by David Beeton, pp. 16-18; Johnstone Street by David Stubbs, pp. 18-21; Sir Jerome Murch and the Redwood trees (a history of the American Redwood trees planted around Bath by Jerome Murch, Mayor of Bath); Ann Ford: the wife of Philip Thicknesse by Paul Hopkins, pp. 22-25: An amateur musician in Georgian Bath (a short account of the activities of John Marsh in eighteenth-century Bath based on the entries from his diary) by Trevor Fawcett, pp. 25-28; William Beckford in Bath by Michael Whitcroft, pp. 38-40; Food for thought: Phil Pope's cookery archive (a 1745 recipe from the Bath recipe book of Mrs Martha Bradley), p. 40; Book review by Andrew Butterworth of 'Queen of the Cortesans: Fanny Murray' by Barbara White, p. 41
Subject
Architecture Doors Legal procedure Musicians Recipes Toll houses Town and country planning legislation Turnpike roads
