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A detailed history of Twerton

Reference Number: PP/2518
Level of Description: Item
Title: A detailed history of Twerton
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Little, Peter R.: Author
Author: Publisher

Bath
Date: 2016
ISBN: 978-0-9927575-3-3
Extent: Pages: 98
Description: Covers various aspects of Twerton's economic, social and religious history. Pages are unumbered but contents contain brief histories of the following: Twerton Parochial School (Chapter five); Revd. Spencer Madan, vicar of Twerton from 1825-1851 (Chapter six); Twerton Co-operative Society (Chapter eight); Rhodes Griffen Cook who with his brother Walter took over Lower Mill at Twerton to manufacture cloth (Chapter nine); The Blackmore and Langdon nurseries (Chapter ten); Twerton Gaol (Chapter eleven); Pennyquick Colliery (Chapter twelve); Twerton Viaduct and Old Station House (Chapter fifteen); Bath City Football Club (Chapter seventeen); Rackfield Place (Chapter eighteen); Bath Cabinet Makers (Chapter nineteen); Twerton parish church graveyard (Chapter twenty-one); The Twerton mills including Upper and Lower Mill and Weston Upper and Lower Mill (Chapter twenty-two); The Pitman Press (Chapter twenty-four); Newton Mill (Chapter twenty-five); The Crown Inn and George Inn at Twerton (Chapter twenty-six); Sladebook Evangelical Church (Chapter twenty-seven); St. Barnabus Church, Southdown (Chapter twenty-eight); West Central School 1922-1942 (Chapter twenty-nine)
Subject: Churches
Coal mines
Housing
Local railways
Mills
Nurseries (horticulture)
Prisons
Schools
Textile nursery