Guidelines, no. 64

Reference Number
PP/2307/3
Level of Description
Item
Title
Guidelines, no. 64
Creator(s) & Administrative History
Various: Author
Date
2005
Extent
Pages: 59
Description
A magazine produced by and for the City of Bath Mayor's Honorary Guides. Contents of this edition are as follows: Eddie McGaul 1934-2005 by Grenville Young (a short account of the life of Eddie McGaul, Bath Guide), pp. 2-3

Queen Victoria by Audrey Woods (a short account of the queen's visits to and through Bath), p. 3.

A brief account of the building of Camden Crescent by Ethna Pettigrew, p. 4

Origins of Pulteney Estate in America by Patrick Kelly (an account of the holdings of the Pulteney family in North America in the late eighteenth-and nineteenth centuries), pp. 6-10

Coal merchants and chimney sweeps by Richard Hatton, p. 11

Bath's British Restaurants by Malcolm Hitchcock (Parkside at Charlotte Street, Riverside at Kensington and Hillside at Cotswold Road) , p. 12

Rear Admiral Peter Puget, C. B. - The Puget of Puget Sound by Malcolm Hitchcock (a short account of the life of Admiral Puget is was buried at Woolley near Bath in 1822), pp. 13-14

Arthur Phillip, Admiral of the Blue by Mike Clifford, pp. 15-17

Book reviews of The Imaginary Autocrat by John Elgin (a biography of Beau Nash and the Bath of his time) and The Diary of Dudley Ryder 1715-1716 by William Matthews (recounts the experiences of Dudley Ryder, a young man training to be a lawyer who came to Bath in 1716), pp. 18-25

Flood protection, Bath by Patrick Kelly (an account of the flood protection/prevention scheme carried out between 1964 and 1972 in Bath containing reproductions of some of the original plans including one of the radial sluice gate and platform), pp. 26-35

Bath's municipal allotments by Malcolm Hitchcock, pp. 36-43

Benedictine monks in Bath: benefit or burden? by David P. M. Keeling, pp. 44-59
Subject
Benedictine order
Building construction
Estates (land)
Floods
Monasteries
Naval personnel
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