The Local Look June 2018

Reference Number: PP/2324/18/6
Level of Description: Item
Title: The Local Look June 2018
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Vowles, James: Editor
Vowles, Jodie: Editor
Various: Author
James and Jodie Vowles: Publisher

Bath

[email protected]
Date: 2018
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: Batheaston Toll Bridge (a short history researched from local newspapers), pp. 18-19; The real Mr Pickwick (an account of Eleazer Pickwick, a foundling who became a major coaching entrepreneur in Bath in the Georgian and Regency periods and who purchased Bathford Manor among other properties) by David Howells, pp. 64-65; Tales of old Bailbrook: Bailbrook before the Welfare State. 2. Poverty Prevention by Dave Pearce, pp. 68-69; A mystery photograph (an unidentified house, possibly in Bath, in an historic photograph taken by Maurice Batiste, a Frenchman who lived at 15 Bladud Buildings), pp. 84-85
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