“I was confronted by my childhood” In its first years in the early 1980s, the Museum was advertising for a volunteer tea lady. Louie, who was in her seventies, responded to the advert; recently widowed, … Read more...
‘Report to Paddington Station in the morning’ Admiralty clerks posted to Bath in 1939 as possibility of war increases This was the instruction received by hundreds of Admiralty workers in September 1939. One of these … Read more...
7 Post War and the Sack of Bath
6 Lotor Washing Powder
5 The Brewery
4 A Girls’ School, rowdy political meetings, and The Hereford Chicken
In the first part of this blog, we looked at how the Tennis-court came to be built, and reached the red-letter day 25th September 1777 when it opened to the public for the first time. So how did it go?
In the first part of this blog, we looked at how the Tennis-court came to be built, and reached the red-letter day 25th September 1777 when it opened to the public for the first time. So how did it go?
The first of a series of articles tracing the fascinating and varied history of the building the Museum now occupies. 1. The Tennis Court
It is the 12th of February 1763 and a letter is published in the Bath Chronicle & Weekly Gazette:
“Tennis is an excellent Exercise. There is scarce a little village in France without a Tennis-Court. Would not the Company here employ one with great Advantage to the Proprietor?”
“Cryséde is Synonymous to Beauty” Recently I went to an exhibition at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro about the history of Cryséde textiles, and was fascinated to learn that one of their first dress … Read more...