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"Somerset", Historical Directories, UK: University of Leicester. Includes Bath directories, various dates. "Libraries and Archives: Local studies". Bath & North East Somerset Council. List of Mayors of Bath, 1230-
Bath Record Office holds the archives for the City of Bath, England. The archives are held at the Guildhall , High Street, Bath and run by the Bath & North East Somerset Council . Their mission statement reads "Bath Record Office collects and keeps safe historical records relating to Bath & North East Somerset and its people".
The Mayor of Bath is a ceremonial post held by a member of the charter trustees of Bath, elected annually by the trustees of the city. In 1189, Richard I of England granted a charter to the city of Bath establishing a mayor, with the first recorded mayor being John de Porta in 1230. In 1590 a Royal Charter of Incorporation was issued confirming ...
Bath (RP: / b ɑː θ /; [2] local pronunciation: [3]) is a city in Somerset, England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths. [4] At the 2021 Census, the population was 94,092. [1] Bath is in the valley of the River Avon, 97 miles (156 km) west of London and 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Bristol.
The school was founded as Bath School of Art in 1852 following The Great Exhibition of 1851. [1] The Bath Directory for 1856 shows its location at Weymouth House (roughly the rear of the present Marks and Spencers store) and its Master as Anthony Carey Stannus, an Irish painter noted for marine scenes and who later helped establish a society which evolved into the Royal Ulster Academy. [2]
Bath and North East Somerset shown within Somerset and England Bath and North East Somerset (commonly referred to as BANES or B&NES) is a unitary authority created on 1 April 1996, following the abolition of the County of Avon, which had existed since 1974. 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 ...
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 ...
The Museum of Bath at Work is a local history museum in Bath, Somerset, England.. The museum was established in 1978 as the Bath Industrial Heritage Trust. Its original collection consisted of a reconstruction of the nineteenth century engineering and mineral water business of Jonathan Burdett Bowler, founded in 1872. [1]