The Local Look January 2016

Reference Number: PP/2324/16/1
Level of Description: Item
Title: The Local Look January 2016
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Vowles, James: Editor
Various: Author
James and Jodie Vowles: Publisher

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Date: 2016
Extent: Pages: 70
Description: A local commumity magazine serving the Bathampton, Batheaston, Bathford, Fairfield Park, Lansdown and Larkhall areas and the nearby villages. This issue includes the following articles: A Notes and Queries Special Investigation (an account of a plaque found in the shed of Larkhall resident Phil Starr dated 3rd February 1927 relating to women's rights activist and later Mayoress of Bath, Sarah Grand, who opened the generating plant at the electricity works in Dorchester Street on the above date. Includes photographs of the electricity works and Sarah Grand) by Kirsten Elliott, pp. 48-49; Trouble at the mill (an account of the fires that took place at Bathampton Mill in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) by Ron Russell, pp. 52-53; The oldest Georgian wall in Bath? (the wall at the end of Camden Road which stretches from Andrews Estate Agents by Batsone's Corner to the bottom of Rivers Road) by Vernon Herridge, p. 68
Subject: Electricity
Engravings
Fires
Flour Mills
Periodicals
Walls