Guidelines, no. 67

Reference Number
PP/2307/6
Level of Description
Item
Title
Guidelines, no. 67
Creator(s) & Administrative History
Corcoran, Cheryl: Editor
Haxworth, Bill: Editor
Various: Author
Date
2008
Extent
Pages: 96
Description
A magazine printed by and for the City of Bath Mayor's Corps of Honorary Guides. Contents of this edition include:

The position of women in Bath 1914-1924, pp. 3-4

The identity of the occupants of one street in Bath in the four years 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1881, pp. 4-6

Police in Bath, pp. 7-17

Celebration (covers the issue of Electoral Reform in Bath in the nineteenth century), pp. 18-21

Bread and Circuses (notes on leisure and entertainment in Bath in the nineteenth century), pp. 21-24

Catholic Emancipation 1882 (as it relates specifically to Bath), pp. 24-26

What were the key issues of the day in selected years 1782, 1882 and 1982) using letters to the editor of the Bath Chronicle and other sources?, pp. 27-31

Paying for Bath by Alan Williams (an article on bathing in the spa waters of Bath through the centuries), pp. 31-33

Text of Francis Greenacre's talk at the Austrailia Society Luncheon at the Clifton Club, Bristol, 3 February 2008 on architect Francis Greenways 1777-1837, pp. 33-36

Copying the Crescent: a misunderstanding of astronomical proportions by Nick Jones (an article on design of the Royal Crescent), pp. 37-39

John Wood, the Younger and St. Mary's Church, Bitton by Jean Amesbury, pp. 39-40

Friends' Meeting House by Audrey Woods (a short history of the building), pp. 40-41

Somerset Place by June Ward, pp. 41-43

Bath's first three Medical Officers of Health. Clement Barter, Anthony Brabazon, William Symons by Malcolm Hitchcock, pp. 44-56

The Toll House by June Ward (an account of the Toll Cottage on Cleveland Bridge, Bath), pp. 57-58

Appreciating Jane Austen by Diana White, pp. 60-61

Commemorative mural tablets in Bath by Donald Percy (an account of the life of General Richard Debaufre Guyon 1813-1856), pp. 61-62

Merlin swing by Audrey Woods (some notes on the swing designed by Joseph Merlin situated in the middle of the maze that once stood in Sydney Gardens), pp. 62-63

Integrated transport for Bath? by Collin Carr (an account of Bath Spa station and the development of its surroundings throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), pp. 64-67

Bath and the Empire and Commonwealth by Angela Hathaway, pp. 68-72

Did you see? 'Bath as it might have been?' by Bill Haxworth (an article on an exhibition held in Bath on proposed buildings that were never actually built by Bill), pp. 73-78

Bigamous Bath by Diana White (accounts of the lives of Charles Hain and William Howell who both married bigamously in Bath, pp. 78-80

Pigs galore: How are your metaphoricals? by Bill Haxworth (an article relating to the 'King Bladud's Pig Project' that took place in Bath in 2008, pp. 81-88
Subject
Architects
Architecture
Authors
Bigamy
British Empire
Catholic emancipation
Crime
Electoral reform
Employment
Entertainment
Medical personnel
Military personnel
Newspapers
Printing industry
Publishing industry
Police
Public health
Sculpture
Theatres
Toll houses
Transport
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