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Growing up in Bath city centre

Growing up in Bath city centre

Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Anyone who has ever wondered what it was like to live in the centre of Bath between the world wars and after the grand houses had been abandoned by the well-to-do should read a new book by Pauline Forrest.

Pauline was born in Kingsmead Street in the heart of the city in...

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Celebrating the last year at St Saviour's

Wednesday, December 03, 2008

The Bath Chronicle recently published an article from Maurice Cottell of Chapel Rise, Atworth about Alice Park. As a result of that he has...

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Bath's other dance school

Bath's other dance school

Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Bath Chronicle reader Pauline Helsdon of Bloomfield Road, Bath writes in connection with the recent death of Laura Stark. Pauline says that the...

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'I'm afraid I must have dozed off for a minute . . .'

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

One of the nation's favourite TV programmes of the past half century has been Dad's Army. In Bath TV viewers are especially fond of it because...

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Readers write

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Thank you for igniting memories of the Rockery Tea Gardens. Living next door from 1950 onwards, as children my sisters and I spent many happy...

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Memories of Oldfield Boys

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Bath reader Roy Bradley has sent in this photograph of Oldfield Boys Schools taken in the early 1950s. Headteacher at the time was Fred Castle...

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WI takes trip to Parliament

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

In the late 1940s or early 1950s a party of Bath Women's Institute members had an outing to the Houses of Parliament where they met Bath MP...

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New allotment project gives school food for thought

New allotment project gives school food for thought

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Allotment fever reached its pitch during Second World War and a beleaguered country was encouraged by the Government to Dig For Victory and...

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Former nurses gather for 50th anniversary event

Former nurses gather for 50th anniversary event

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Former nurses from the Bath and Wessex Orthopaedic Hospital at Combe Park in Bath gathered at Bath's Francis Hotel last week to celebrate an...

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'Girls of the Town' give Avon Street a bad name

'Girls of the Town' give Avon Street a bad name

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

'Everything vile and offensive is congregated there. All the scum of Bath – its low prostitutes, its thieves, its beggars – are...

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