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: Larkhall resident and exTV newsman Richard Wyatt and the creation of Newseum, a 'virtual museum which gives a journalistic feel to stories affecting the historic fabric of Bath', pp. 6-7; Only connect - the slightly tangled tale of how Camden Crescent acquired its name (includes a history of the Pratt family, later Barons/Earls Camden and their association with Bath) by Kirsten Elliott, pp. 18-19;Who lies there? (some of the interesting but little-known people buried in the graveyard of St.Swithin's Church, Bathford including Ann Nelson, sister of Horatio, members of the Skrine family of Warleigh Manor, John Wiltshire of Shockerwick and Bathford, Eleazer Pickwick who ran a coaching business which inspired Charles Dickens's novel The Pickwick Papers, Charles Morley of I and R Morley, suppliers of fine stockings and other clothing items, Cdr Alan Craig, R. N. , researcher of Bathford's history and Elias Prins, a Jewish teacher who reportedly helped Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands escape to England at the beginning of the Second World War) by David Howells; Bathford Paper mill: a photo essay from 1935 (a short history of the papermill accompanied by photographs of the building's interior and members of staff) by Stuart Burroughs, pp. 56-57; The Towers of Lansdown (Beckford's Tower, Lansdown Water Tower, Kingswood and Royal School towers) by Amy Frost, pp. 66-67: 100 years ago in Larkhall (Larkhall and conscription in the First World War) by Andrew Swift, pp. 78-79; Larkhall man drowned in beer (newspaper report regarding William Cope of Larkhall who drowned in a vat of beer at Grosvenor Brewery in 1897) by Jon Cope, pp. 92-93; Avon Rugby is 90 (includes a photograph of the original team taken in its founding year 1925), p. 92
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