Guidelines, no. 65

Reference Number
PP/2307/4
Level of Description
Item
Title
Guidelines, no. 65
Creator(s) & Administrative History
Williams, Alan: Editor
Various: Author
Date
2007
Extent
Pages: 52
Description
Magazine printed by and for the City of Bath Mayor's Corps of Honorary Guides. Contents of this edition include:

Ballads of Bath (a book printed in 1943 and from which a poem is reproduced relating to a guided walk around the city by Alderman Sturge Cotterell, the founder of the Mayor's Honorary Guides), pp. 1-3

Book reviews of 'Stories of Bath' by Diana White and 'Bath Curiosities' by Michael Raffael, pp. 3-5

The Bath Spa: who is Nicholas Grimshaw? by June Ward (a short article on the buildings of architect Nicholas Grimshaw who designed the Thermae Bath Spa buildings in the early 2000s), pp. 5-7.

Brunel and Bath: then and now by Kim Jordan, (a description of the structures designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in Bath based on four guided walks undertaken in June 2006), pp. 8-18

A walk with Walter Sickert by Alan Williams (an account of the artist Walter Sickert in Bath), pp. 18-21

Feisty females by Audrey Woods (Brief lives of five women who lived in Bath based in guided walk given in 2006-Hester Thrale/Mrs Piozzi, Lady Celia Noble, Fanny Burney and Sarah Fielding), pp. 22-24

Bath's Municipal allotments. Part 2: the expansion during the Second World War by Malcolm Hitchcock, pp. 25-37

Law and Order in Bath by Ken Jefferies (a brief account of law and order in Bath through the centuries) , pp. 38-40

Why is the Star of David on the West front of the abbey? by Judy Marks (an account of the Freemason's symbols carved on the exterior of Bath Abbey which were put there because the Freemason's contributed to the restoration of the West Front 1860-1874 , p. 41

Bath's best kept secret A.D. 1826 by Islay Woods (a short account of the foundation of Partis College in Bath by Ann Partis), pp. 42-43

Quirky Bath: Painted window in Argyle Street by Myra Barnes, pp. 43-44

The Francis Hotel and Queen Square by Audrey Woods, pp. 44-46

Thermal baths around the world: Banos, Ecuador by Malcolm Hitchcock, pp. 48-49

Windows in Bath, and a surprise in Alfred Street by John Ede (an article on windows in eighteenth-century Bath, pp. 50-52
Subject
Almshouses
Architecture
Artists
Crime
Engineers
Health facilities
Local railways
Police
Spas
Thermal springs
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