The Local Look October 2015

Reference Number

PP/2324/15/10

Level of Description

Item

Title

The Local Look October 2015

Creator(s) & Administrative History

Vowles, James: Editor
Vowles, Jodie: Editor
Various: Author
James and Jodie Vowles: Publisher

[email protected]

Date

2015

Extent

Pages: 96

Description

A local community magazine serving the Bathampton, Batheaston, Bathford, Fairfield Park, Lansdown and Larkhall areas and the nearby villages. This issue includes the following articles: New gift shop for Larkhall (short article on the former public toilets in Larkhall Square which are being turned into a gift shop but which will also retain a unisex toilet), p. 6; Burdell's Yard (a short history of the building just off off the London Road which became Bath Spa University's venue for Music and Performing Arts in 2009), p. 18; Local Look Notes and Queries 18: Coalpit Road (an account of the unsuccessful attempt to mine coal at Batheaston in the early nineteenth century) by Kirsten Elliott, pp. 29-31; Pictures from the past...Batheaston (photographs sent in by Mike Roberts); Pubs past and present #8: The lost pubs of Hedgemead (including the White Horse Cellar/Full Moon, the Gloucester Inn, the North Pole Brewery Inn, the Barley Mow at Margaret's Hill, the Hope and Anchor, the Crown and Anchor and the Odd Fellows' Arms. The article includes a photograph of Hedgemead before the landslip) by Kirsten Elliott, pp. 58-59; The story of 'T.R. Hayes'- a century of trading in Bath, pp. 82-83

Subject

Coal mining
Furniture industry
Photographs
Public houses