Archive Tales

Opening June 2025, the Museum hosts a fabulous new exhibition about Tennis in Bath.  Amongst a wealth of fascinating material, we’ll look at the clothing worn for playing tennis, so this piece gives a little … Read more...

In this article we’re looking at another two of the photographic portraits in the collection of glass plate negatives from Tom Carlyle Leaman’s studio at no.7 The Corridor.  Research has led us to find out … Read more...

The Museum features the factory and workshops of the successful businessman J.B. Bowler, who made carbonated mineral waters (fizzy pop drinks) and ironmongery items.  The building, as we have explored in previous articles, was built … Read more...

This is another of the photographic portraits in the Museum’s collection of glass plate negatives from the studio of Tom Carlyle Leaman, taken in the 1890s and 1900s.  We can trace the Sare family and … Read more...

In August 1921, the Bath Races meeting up at Lansdown became the site of appalling violence and assaults inflicted by gangs from Birmingham on men from London.  This was ‘The Racecourse War’ for the control … Read more...

We are sharing some research about working lives in Bath in the 1890s and 1900s, using the portraits in our collection of glass plate negatives from the Bath studio of Tom Carlyle Leaman. Charles Linom … Read more...

“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