A monthly community magazine serving the Bathampton, Batheaston, Bathford, Fairfield Park, Lansdown and Larkhall areas and the nearby villages. This issue includes the following articles: The secret nursery, a real family affair (an account and history of the nursery run by the Rich family at Batheaston), pp. 10-11: Resurfacing of local towpath (work done by the Canal & River Trust in partnership with B&NES on the Kennet & Avon Canal between Bath and Bathampton), p. 20; The Great Storm of 1935 (photographs of the damage caused at Larkhall by the flooding in 1935), pp. 24-25; Picture from the Past...St. Saviour's Infant School 1983, p. 30; Ghost signs of Batheaston - Part 2 (The Coopers Arms, The George and Dragon, The Smith's Arms, The George Inn at Bathampton) by Kirsten Elliott, pp. 40-41; Tales of old Bailbrook: Bombed babies brought to Batheaston (an account of the home set up at Denewood Grange, Bailbrook Lane by the Bath branch of the Waifs and Strays Society in 1940 to house young children who had been bombed out of London) by Dave Pearce, pp. 48-49: Lines heading North: Swainswick, Lambridge, Bathwick and the Midland Railway (the proposed but never-built extension of the Bristol & Midland Railway line from Bristol to Bath which was intended to run east from Bristol north of Wick and Abson, passing close to Doynton, past Tadwick and opposite Solsbury Hill, over the London Road and carrying on just below the Kennet & Avon Canal, then running west through the site of Rockliffe Road and Powlett Road to a teminus station roughly where Bath Fire Station stands) by Stuart Burroughs, pp. 66-67: Larkhall through the years (the growth of Larkhall from the late Georgian period including information on and a photograph of the The Bladud Spa) by Kirsten Elliott, pp. 76-77; Picture from the Past: Larkhall Reserves Somerset Senior side 1981/1982 (lists the players in the squad), p. 90.
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Advertisements Canals Evacuees Local railways Nurseries (horticulture) Periodicals Photographs Schools Signs and signboards Storms Towpaths
