The Local Look June 2017

Reference Number: PP/2324/17/6
Level of Description: Item
Title: The Local Look June 2017
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Vowles, James: Editor
Vowles, Jodie: Editor
Various: Author
James and Jodie Vowles: Publisher

Bath

[email protected]
Date: 2017
Extent: Pages: 96
Description: 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: Photograph of Alice Park cricket team in 1948, p. 39: British Restaurants in Bath (an account of the three restaurants, Hillside, Parkside and Riverside set up in 1942 by the Emergency Committee of wartime Bath to ensure everyone was properly fed at a time of national emergency) by Dave Pearce, pp. 62-63; the Gay's Hill Asylum (a short account of this Asylum set up for the reception of young females, children of the inhabitants of the city, to teach them household work, pp. 68-69; Charmy Down (a short history of the site just outside Bath from Prehistoric times to 1940 when the airfield opened there) by Akeman Press (Kirsten Elliott and Andrew Swift), pp. 72-73
Subject: Advertisements
Airfields
Asylums
Periodicals
Photographs
Restaurants
Second World War (1939-1945)