Various: Author Bath and North East Somerset Council's Print Services: Publisher
Bath
Dartmouth Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, BA2 1AS
Date
2018
Extent
Pages: 51
Description
A magazine produced by and for the City of Bath Mayor's Honorary Guides. Contents of this edition are as follows: Bath's War Hospital (a short account using archival material from Bath Record Office) by Audrey Woods, pp. 6-8; The pineapple in late 18th century England by Matthew White, pp. 8-10; History of Corston (a very succinct history) by Judy Marks, pp. 10-11; The Monmouth Street circus & the Child of Promise (The circus was run by Benjamin Handy, later in conjunction with Thomas Franklin and the Child of Promise was his daughter, Mary Ann Handy, who performed amazing feats on horseback), pp.12-14; Walter Sickert artist: was he Jack the Ripper? (Sickert's connections with Bath), pp. 14-16; Bath and the Cinema (a short account of the work carried out by Bathonian John Arthur Roebuck Rudge and his friend, the photographer William Friese-Green who opened a studio at No. 9 The Corridor. The article also includes a list of films and TV series filmed in Bath), pp. 18-21; A legacy of beauty (an account of the estate at Westonburt, Gloucestershire originally owned by the Holford family), pp. 21-25; Reminders of the 1894 flood (an account of the flood and its aftermath and what was proposed to overcome the long-standing problem of flooding in Bath) by Mike Macklin, pp. 28-32; Horse racing on Claverton Down: the O'Kelly years (an account of horse racing at this site between 1771 and 1781 when Col. Dennis O' Kelly, originally from Ireland, ran his much-envied horses there) by Ian Perkins, pp. 32-34; Life on the canal: the canal boatmen (a short 'social history of the conditions in which the boatmen and their families worked in the 19th Century) by Ian Herve, pp. 34-39; Francis Kilvert's Bath (A discussion of excerpts from Kilvert's Diary that related to Bath, a city he frequently visited) by Boyd Schlenther, pp.39-42; The Bath University Campus on Claverton Down (a short account of the design and layout of the original 1960s buildings which were based on the drawings done by the architects who had designed the buildings for the proposed new town of Hook in Hampshire which was never actually built) by Malcolm Hitchcock, p. 44; Cleveland House and the hole in the tunnel roof (possibly put there to provide under-floor ventilation?) by Mike Macklin, pp. 45-47; John Christopher Smith & Benjamin Stillingfleet (brief biographical sketches of Smith, a musician, composer and friend and amanuesis to Handel who came to Bath in 1789 and Stillingfleet, a musician who collaberated with Smith and later a botanist) by Audrey Woods, pp. 48-49.
