The Local Look October 2018

Reference Number: PP/2324/18/10
Level of Description: Item
Title: The Local Look October 2018
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Vowles, James: Editor
Vowles, Jodie: Editor
Various: Author
James and Jodie Vowles: Publisher

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Date: 2018
Extent: Pages: 86
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: Mitty's Letter by Audrey Swindells (a trilogy of novels writen by Audrey Swindells, co-founder of Bath Postal Museum, based on an 1833 love letter written by Captain Cowper Rochfort, a British office in the Indian Army, to Mathilda 'Mitty' Rochfort), pp. 22-23; Denewood Grange and the home for bombed babies by Kirsten Elliott and Andrew Swift of Akemanpress (a short account of Denewood Grange at Batheaston which was leased by the Waifs and Strays Society during the war to house children from heavily bombed areas of London), pp.34-35; A tale of two maps by David Howells (a description and history of two maps in the Bathford Society archives, one dated 1605, showing part of Batheaston around the church and the other dated 1607, showing land around Shockerwood. They were possibly made because of the land-grabbing activities of Sir William Button, 1st Baronet of Alton Priors), pp. 46-48
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