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: A few memories of 99-year-old Dorothy Topham (nee Rich) who spent most of her life in Batheaston and worked as a hairdresser until the age of 85, p. 8; Dad's Army (a short article on the guarding of the Charlecombe Waterworks by the Home Guard) by Caroline Davey, p. 44; Short description and photographs of the Conservative candidates for the Council Elections on May 2nd 2019 (covering the area reached by The Local Look), pp. 48-49; Beating the Boundaries: How our ward was saved from demolition... (the 2018 campaign to save Lambridge ward from abolition by the Boundary Commission), p. 66; Foul deeds at Warleigh (the 1857 murders of Andrew and Sarah Border at Warleigh by their neighbour Thomas Miller and the murder in the same year of Charlotte Pugsley, a cook in the house of the Rev. Bythesea of Freshford, by John William Beale) by David Howells, pp. 76-78; A battle in Bathwick (the rivalry between two pleasure gardens in bath in the late eighteenth century, Spring Gardens near Pulteney Bridge and Villa Gardens by Bathwick Villa) by Kirsten Elliott/Andrew Swift, pp. 80-81;Tales of Old Bailbrook (the life of Ethel Drew nee Curtis [b.1911] born and brought up in Bailbrook) by Dave Pearce, pp. 86-87
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