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The High Street end has a Doric colonnade. Each end has marble columns. [1] A musicians gallery, with a wrought iron balustrade and gilt lions heads and garlands, is in the centre of the arcade. [2] Number 7 was the photographic studio of William Friese-Greene. [2]
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Part of the ceremonial county of Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset occupies an area of 220 square miles (570 km 2), two-thirds of which is green belt. [2] It stretches from the outskirts of Bristol , south into the Mendip Hills and east to the southern Cotswold Hills and Wiltshire border. [ 2 ]
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The Octagon Chapel was a place of worship, [2] then a furniture shop by Mallett Antiques. It opened briefly as a restaurant, which has subsequently closed. [7] It is accessed beside number 46. [6] As a fashionable Georgian thoroughfare, Milsom Street is quoted in several of the works of Jane Austen, including Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
Bath Abbey from the Roman Baths Gallery. Bath Abbey was founded in 1499 [6] on the site of an 8th-century church. [7] The original Anglo-Saxon church was pulled down after 1066, [21] and a grand cathedral dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul was begun on the site by John of Tours, Bishop of Bath and Wells, around 1090; [22] [23] however, only the ambulatory was complete when he died in ...
Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights is an independent bookshop based in John Street, Bath, Somerset. It was founded by former lawyer and derivatives trader Nic Bottomley [1] [2] and his wife, Juliette, also a lawyer. [3] In 2009, it was appointed as the official bookseller of the Bath Literary Festival. [4]
The business thrived, and by 1823 he opened a seasonal store in Bath for his son Thomas. The shop was a success and by 1830 became a permanent shop. [1] The business quickly expanded and by 1852 Jolly & Son had branches in Deal, Margate, Bath, Bristol. [2] The business sold amongst others linen, toys, silk and cutlery. However in 1889, the ...