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- 09:15, 19 July 2025 Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - 01 November 1855 (hist | edit) [457 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==DIVISION OF CHEWTON, SOMERSET== It is believed the justices of the peace for this division will, at their petty sessions, on the 6th of November next, adjourn such session...")
- 08:03, 19 July 2025 Somerset Standard - 28 December 1973 (hist | edit) [8,718 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Paulton in the Eighteen-fifties (concluded)== ==WOMEN STRIPPED TO THE WAIST AND FOUGHT IN PUBLIC== ERIC WESTMAN, local historian, concludes the recollections of John Watts...")
- 07:21, 19 July 2025 Somerset Standard - 21 December 1973 (hist | edit) [8,558 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Paulton in the Eighteen-fifties - 1== ==INN BREWED ITS OWN BEER - AND IT MATURED FOR THREE YEARS!== Local historian ERIC WESTMAN has across the written recollections of Jo...")
- 19:49, 17 June 2024 Shearn, Leslie (hist | edit) [419 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Daft notes on Leslie Shearn Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Friday 07 May 1954 CLANDOWN Licence Transfer Weston (Bath) magistrates, on April 28, agreed to the tra...")
- 09:18, 6 April 2024 Stones on Charmy Down (hist | edit) [1,198 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #27 - Stones on Charmy Down== '''22/07/1933''' Various references are made in local histories to "Druidical" stones in the field north-west of Charmy Down Farm. The...")
- 09:16, 6 April 2024 The First Herald (hist | edit) [952 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #26 - The First Herald== '''15/07/1933''' A friend of mine, looking through some old photographs, has found a copy of "The Bath Herald and General Advertiser," dated...")
- 09:14, 6 April 2024 Jane Austen (hist | edit) [727 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #25 - Jane Austen== '''15/07/1933''' My stay in your wonderful city was all too short. Your streets breathe memories of the past, and you have done wisely to tablet t...")
- 08:35, 6 April 2024 Somerset Brasses (hist | edit) [2,609 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #24 - Somerset Brasses== '''15/07/1933''' Can any of your readers give sources of information on Somerset Brasses?—E. V., Bath. ==Replies== '''22/07/1933''' The...")
- 08:30, 6 April 2024 Turner's Tower (hist | edit) [652 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #23 - Turner's Tower== '''15/07/1933''' In the issue of the "Bath Chronicle and Herald" for July 10th you give a quotation referring this tower near Faulkland. It in...")
- 08:29, 6 April 2024 Holy Stone (hist | edit) [708 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #22 - Holy Stone == '''08/07/1933''' I understand that the stone called "Holy Stone" used in the Navy and mercantile service for deck scrubbing is obtained from some...")
- 08:27, 6 April 2024 Beech Trees on Wiltshire Downs (hist | edit) [361 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #21 - Beech Trees on Wiltshire Downs== '''08/07/1933''' On the ridges of the Wiltshire Downs one observes isolated clumps of beech trees. Is there any special signif...")
- 08:26, 6 April 2024 Inscription in Bath Abbey (hist | edit) [384 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #20 - Incsciption in Bath Abbey == '''08/07/1933''' I am given to understand that there is a monument in the Bath Abbey bearing an epitaph extolling the virtues of a...")
- 08:24, 6 April 2024 Wiltshire White Horse (hist | edit) [1,225 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #19 - Wiltshire White Horse== '''08/07/1933''' Can any reader offer information as to the number of White Horses there are in Wiltshire, and do they all date from th...")
- 08:19, 6 April 2024 Bath & West of England Club (hist | edit) [2,022 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #18 - Bath & West of England Club== '''08/07/1933''' I should be much obliged if any your readers could give me any information about the Bath and West of England Cl...")
- 08:14, 6 April 2024 A Marshfield Legend (hist | edit) [800 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #17 - A Marshfield Legend == '''08/07/1933''' A strange tradition held by many Marshfield people concerns the burial of "a golden calf," both at Beeks and at West En...")
- 08:06, 6 April 2024 Druid Stones at St. Catherine's (hist | edit) [2,506 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #16 - "Druid Stones" at St. Catherine's == '''08/07/1933'' Can anyone give any information about some stones at Beeks, near St. Catherine's, which are marked on the...")
- 08:01, 6 April 2024 Pre-Reformation Baths (hist | edit) [299 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #15 - Pre-Reformation Baths== '''01/07/1933''' Can anyone give a reference pointing to "superstitious uses" having been practised at the baths of Bath in pre-Reforma...")
- 07:57, 6 April 2024 The Horse Bath (hist | edit) [1,479 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #14 - The Horse Bath== '''01/07/1933''' When was the Horse Bath constructed and when was it removed? —C710. ==Replies== '''08/07/1933''' The supply of mineral w...")
- 07:55, 6 April 2024 Commemoration of King Edgar's Coronation (hist | edit) [654 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #13 - Commemoration of King Edgar's Coronation== '''01/07/1933''' When did the Whit-Sunday festivities in commemoration of King Edgar's coronation at Bath, referred t...")
- 11:29, 30 March 2024 Roman Bronze Eagle (hist | edit) [443 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #12 - Roman Bronze Eagle== '''01/07/1933''' In the Museum of the Institution there is a “Roman Bronze Eagle.” It is said to have been found in Limpley Stoke and...")
- 11:18, 30 March 2024 Holed Stone at Claverton Down (hist | edit) [10,718 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #11 - Holed Stone at Claverton Down== '''01/07/1933''' In the field called Bushey Norwood, on Claverton Down, is an upright stone with a hole in it. As this has been...")
- 11:15, 30 March 2024 Sedan Chairs (hist | edit) [742 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #10 - Sedan Chairs== '''24/06/1933''' I have been trying to find the date the Sedan Chairs ceased to ply on the streets of Bath. Can any reader give me the required...")
- 11:13, 30 March 2024 Curious Legend (hist | edit) [642 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #9 - Curious Legend=== '''24/06/1933''' There is an old story that the inhabitants of Bishop's Cannings, near Devizes, manured the steeple of their church in an ende...")
- 11:00, 30 March 2024 A Bath Artist (hist | edit) [784 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #8 - A Bath Artist== '''24/06/1933''' I shall be pleased to receive information on John Wheeler, a local artist and animal painter, who lived in Bath 1858-1877.— R...")
- 10:58, 30 March 2024 Beating the Bounds (hist | edit) [896 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #7 - Beating the Bounds== '''24/06/1933''' When was the last occasion on which "Beating of the Bounds" took place in any parish in the City of Bath? Inquirer. ==Rep...")
- 10:45, 30 March 2024 Horse-Collar Oak (hist | edit) [736 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #6 - Horse-Collar Oak== '''17/06/1933''' Can some of your readers tell me the date of the throwing or felling of the Horse-collar Oak on the Warminster Road, and wha...")
- 10:44, 30 March 2024 Order of Druids (hist | edit) [408 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #5 - Order of Druids== '''17/06/1933''' A Lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids was supposed to have been held in 1790 at the Seven Dials Tavern in Westgate Place, Ba...")
- 10:42, 30 March 2024 Gainsborough Trees (hist | edit) [1,384 bytes] Ipxwcq (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Query #4 - Gainsborough Trees== '''17/06/1933''' Various trees round Bath, more particularly oaks, have been styled "Gainsborough" trees. One is situated at Lambridge, one...")