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Where have the trees gone?
Does anyone know when the trees were felled? I have found a slightly later photo around the turn of the century and this has the trees still. Today there are none, although I think those on Laura Place are still there. If anyone knows about this, I'd love to hear from you: moretrees@live.co.uk
Contributed by Adam Gretton
Architectural notes
As a former resident of Bath I recall that this building was not particularly liked. In 1959 the hotel was demolished and a block of 33 flats at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor level with shops at the ground floor was built. The quality of building work and the amenities of the building was exceptional and included electric underfloor heating beneath parquet floors in the main living room and an air extractor system to bathrooms and kitchens without external windows. The two side wings of the property housed lifts serving the three floors and also included very convenient rubbish chutes. There was also an entryphone system - a relatively new concept in Britain ...read more here
Contributed by Dr K Mackenzie
Avon memories
Where have the trees gone?
Does anyone know when the trees were felled? I have found a slightly later photo around the turn of the century and this has the trees still. Today there are none, although I think those on Laura Place are still there. If anyone knows about this, I'd love to hear from you: moretrees@live.co.uk
A memory of Bath contributed by Adam Gretton
Architectural notes
As a former resident of Bath I recall that this building was not particularly liked. In 1959 the hotel was demolished and a block of 33 flats at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor level with shops at the ground floor was built. The quality of building work and the amenities of the building was exceptional and included electric underfloor heating beneath parquet floors in the main living room and an air extractor system to bathrooms and kitchens without external windows. The two side wings of the property housed lifts serving the three floors and also included very convenient rubbish chutes. There was also an entryphone system - a relatively new concept in Britain ...read more here
A memory of Bath contributed by Dr K Mackenzie
Extracts From Bath & Avon books
Remarkably little of the medieval city survives; apart from St Mary Magdalen and a fragment of town wall, the Abbey is the main physical evidence of what was a prosperous town built on the wool trade. However, the superb, and very late medieval, Abbey church more than compensates. Note the genuine ‘Bath chair’ in this view.
An extract from from"Bath Photographic Memories".
Go back into town and cross the Pulteney Bridge with its small shops into Argyle Street. At its junction with Laura Place you can look along Great Pulteney Street towards the Holburne Museum, built as the Sydney House hotel in 1796 to serve the Sydney Gardens beyond, a large hexagonal public park now bisected by the railway.
An extract from from"Bath Photographic Memories".
Beyond Southgate, on Broad Quays, the 1966 Churchill Bridge over the River Avon replaced the Old Bridge we see in this view. The stonework arches belong to the 1754 replacement for St Lawrence’s Bridge; it dated from 1362, and even had a chapel to St Lawrence halfway across. The medieval piers survived, while the ironwork superstructure was Victorian.
An extract from from"Bath Photographic Memories".
The Roman town of Aquae Sulis had as its focus the hot spring-fed baths, where citizens of the Empire flocked for rheumatic cures. The baths the Romans built were indeed sumptuous, and the remains give one some idea of their scale and quality. This fascinating early view shows the Roman Baths before Brydon’s 1897 alterations and new buildings.
An extract from from"Bath Photographic Memories".
Back into town, this view from Orange Grove looks along past Brydon’s Municipal Buildings of 1893, ‘rendered necessary by the large increase of public business since the erection of the central building the Guildhall 1777’ according to the plaque. The shaped gables to the building on the corner of Cheap Street have been replaced by a more correct ‘Georgian’ parapet.
An extract from from"Bath Photographic Memories".