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...
The Race-Course Feud
Archive Tales
Charles Moutrie, General Manager at Bath Race Course
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...
Louie Stride: Memoirs of a Street Urchin
“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...
From Sheppey to Bath
‘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...
History of the Museum Building and Use: 7. Post War and the Sack of Bath
7 Post War and the Sack of Bath
History of the Museum Building and Use: 6. Lotor Washing Powder
6 Lotor Washing Powder
History of the Museum Building and Use: 5. The Brewery
5 The Brewery
History of the Museum Building and Use: 4. Girls’ School, rowdy political meetings, and The Hereford Chicken
4 A Girls’ School, rowdy political meetings, and The Hereford Chicken
History of the Museum Building and Use: 3. Boxing, Hot-Air Balloon, and Circus
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?
History of the Museum Building and Use: 2. The Tennis Court
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?