The Local Look March 2021

Reference Number
PP/2324/21/3
Level of Description
Item
Title
The Local Look March 2021
Creator(s) & Administrative History
Vowles, James: Editor
Vowles, Jodie: Editor
Various: Author
James and Jodie Vowles: Publisher

Bath

[email protected]
Date
2021
Extent
Pages: 78
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: Obituary for Ron Book who lived in larkhall for 60 years, p. 14; Asset transfer plans sets out proposals to secure future of Bathampton Meadows (the possible transfer of ownership of the 24-hectare site to the National Trust), p.18; Garraway Club Larkhall Circa 1975 (group photograph with names underneath), p. 27; Memories of Mike, can you help? (an appeal to find a member of the family of Mike Austin, caretaker at Batheaston School in order to hand over 'Memories of Mike', a handmade book of letters of memorandum written by pupils of Batheaston School along with photos and drawings, which was found behind a radiator at an Avon Court residence) by Shaun Thomson, pp. 36-37; The Facebook site, "Fairfield Park, Bath" is open for all to see...(the setting-up of a website by local resident Vernon Herridge containing historical information on the buildings and residents of the Fairfield Park area), pp. 38-39; The strange case of the irascible magistrate and the Bathampton Ghost (detailing some of the activities of Philip Charles Sheppard, magistrate and his brother Edward, residents and landowners of Bathampton in the second half of the nineteenth century which landed them in court, including an incident relating to The George Inn), by Kirsten Elliott, pp. 50-51; Batheaston New Village Hall (continuation of the construction) by George Riley, p. 54: Passport to adventure as endorsed by Buckingham Palace, Part One (Douglas Pratt's memories of his childhood and youth in Bailbrook, Bathampton and Larkhall), pp. 60-61; Picture from the past... Larkhall FC circa 1961/62 (with names of players underneath), p. 63; Larkhall in lockdown by the Larkhall Butchers, pp. 66-67
Subject
Advertisements
Periodicals
Personal narratives
Photographs
Public Houses
Village halls
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