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Field-Marshal Earl Roberts K.G. was a constant visitor in this house 1900-1914 B. 1832 D. 1914
9 Queen's Parade, Bath, United Kingdom
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Bloomsbury. Richard Barson, entrepreneur, visionary, father, friend. 1964 - 2010
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Prince Louis Napoleon Napoleon III. Stayed here 1846. B.1808. D.1873.
Sydney Place, Bath, United Kingdom
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The oldest house in Bath 1482 Sally Lunn lived here 1680
4 North Parade Passage, Bath, United Kingdom
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Here lived Admiral Philip 1806-1814 First Governor of Australia
19 Bennett Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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Near this site between 1770 and 1772 lived Thomas Sheridan Actor & Orthoepist 1719-1788 Richard Brinsley Sheridan Dramatist 1751-1816
9 New King Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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These premises were formerly occupied by the philatelist Henry Stafford Smith (B. 1843. D. 1903) who with his brother Alfred William Smith (B. 1837. D.1880) published from 1863 onwards, "The Stamp Collector's Magazine". This was the pioneer philatelic journal and Bath is therefore the cradle city of philatelic literature.
13 George Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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Here lived Dr Caleb Hillier Parry B.1755 D. 1822. and his son Admiral Sir W. E. Parry B.1790 D.1855
27 The Circus, Bath, United Kingdom
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Here lived Admiral Sir Sydney W. Smith 1772-1774 B.1764 D. 1840
12 Catherine Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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Here lived Scientist and Musician Sir William Herschel 1738-1822 from where he found the planet Uranus, March 13th 1781 he also discovered Infrared radiation in 1800 ~ and his sister Caroline Herschel early woman scientist 1750-1848 Hunter of comets
19 New King Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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On this site stood the residence of William Oliver, M.D. One of the founders of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital B. 1695 D. 1764
16-18 Queen Square, Bath, United Kingdom
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Here lived the Earl of Chesterfield B.1694 D.1773
4 Pierrepont Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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Here dwelt Lord Lytton B.1803 D.1873
Connaught Mansions, Pultney Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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Here dwelt John Christopher Smith (1712-1795) Handel's friend and secretary
18 Brock Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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William Wilberforce B.1759 D.1833 stayed here 1802 and 1805.
36 Great Pultney Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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In this house, William Smith, the father of English geology, dictated "The Order of the Strata" December 11th 1799
29 Pultney Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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Here lived Henry Fielding B.1707 D.1754 and Sarah Fielding B.1710 D.1768
Widcombe Lodge, Church Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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Here lived Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. first Rajah of Sarawak B.1803 D.1868
1 Widcombe Crescent, Bath, United Kingdom
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Admiral Earl Howe. K.G. lived here in 1794, 1795 & 1798. B.1725. D.1799.
William Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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The Royal Hotel Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel Born 1806 died 1859
The Royal Hotel, Manvers Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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Elizabeth Anne Linley afterwards Mrs. R. B. Sheridan lived here 1767-1771.
Old Orchard Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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Claverton Pump Designed by John Rennie (1761-1821). Built 1810-1813. Restored by Kennet and Avon Canal Trust 1969-1976.
Claverton Pumping Station, Ferry Lane, Claverton, Bath, United Kingdom
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On this site stood St Mary's Chapel designed by John Wood I (1704-1754) in 1734 and demolished 1875. The Chapel was erected for subscribers residing in this area and sited to close the western vista across the south side of the Square. Some Ionic capitals and a base can be seen nearby. One complete column stands near Cleveland Bridge.
Chapel Row, Bath, United Kingdom
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1821-26 Here lived I. K. Brunel Designer of the Pulteney Bridge
Walcot Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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This building designed by Thomas Jelly and completed in 1754 was restored in 1978 by the Friends of King Edward's School with the aid of a grant from the Bath Town Scheme.
Broad Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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This piece of ground was in the year 1736 set apart for the burial of patients dying in the Bath General Hospital, and after receiving 238 bodies was closed by the governors of that charity in the year 1849, from regard to the health of the living.
Trim Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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Transport Heritage Site 'Red Wheel' #54
Bath Spa station 1841 focal point of I. K. Brunel's Great Western Railway through Bath, sympathetically designed in the pioneering phase of railway construction
Bath Spa Station, Dorchester Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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Jacob von Hogflume 1864-1909 Inventor of time travel. lived here in 1547
The Octagon, Milsom St, Bath, United Kingdom
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Here dwelt the Duke of Clarence afterwards King William the Fourth. 1817. B.1765. D.1837.
103 Sydney Place, Bath, United Kingdom
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Here lived Fred E. Weatherly, K.C. song writer 1919 to 1928 B. 1848 D. 1929.
10 Edward Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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As you spend a penny you may be interested to know that Sir John Harrington 1561-1612 God son to Queen Elizabeth I who resided here, invented the lavatorial flush...
8-10 Queen Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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These were the buildings of Bath College 1879-1909 Has aedes olim obtinebat collegium bathonense hinc profecti sunt alumni praeceptae memores sententiae. "Possunt quia posse videntur".
Macdonald Bath Spa Hotel, Sydney Road, Bath, United Kingdom
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The Roman Baths. Twenty feet beneath you stand the remains of the Roman Baths which flourished between the 1st and 4th centuries AD. They were lost beneath the city for hundreds of years and discovered in 1879. This building was erected in 1973, replacing private baths built in the 1880s by Major Charles Davis who excavated the Roman Baths.
Stall Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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Edgar first king of all England was crowned by Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury in the Saxon abbey on this site on Whitsunday A.D.973
Bath Abbey, Bath, United Kingdom
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Ralph Allens' Cottages Built by Ralph Allen to house his stone masons who worked nearby Erected circa 1740 Restored 1983
Ralph Allen's Cottages, Prior Park Road, Bath, United Kingdom
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Hope House destroyed by enemy action 25 April 1942 re-opened 23 May 1951 by HRH the Duchess of Gloucester
Lansdown Road, Bath, United Kingdom
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The tower of the Norman cathedral built by Bishop John de Villulain in the reign of William II (c1091) stood here. The apse is believed to have extended 36 metres east from this point.
Bath Abbey, Bath, United Kingdom
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Thomas Linley lived here and from this house his daughter Elizabeth eloped with Richard Brinsley Sheridan on the evening of the 18th March 1772
11 Royal Crescent, Bath, United Kingdom
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Four houses which stood here the work of Wood the Elder were destroyed by enemy action on 27th April 1942 and rebuilding was completed in 1953.
Francis Hotel, Queen Square, Bath, United Kingdom
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This building, erected in 1750, was formerly the Theatre Royal managed by the celebrated John Palmer MP, originator of the mail coach system and holder of the first Royal Patent ever granted to a provincial theatre, to its stock company, for a period of four years (1778-82) belonged the renowned Sarah Siddons, with her husband and sister. Here also appeared her brothers, John Philip Kemble and Stephen Kemble. Here John Henderson and R. W. Elliston both made their first appearances on the stage and were for a long time leading actors. Samuel Foote, George Frederick Cooke, William Dimond, Benjamin Engledon, George and Mrs. Bartley, and many other famous players also acted in this theatre, which was closed in 1805.
Old Orchard Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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Here lived Selina Countess of Huntingdon B. 1707 D. 1791
The Countess of Huntingdon’s Chapel, The Paragon, Bath, United Kingdom
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William Jay was Minister here 1790-1853
Bath Central United Reformed Church, Argyle Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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In 1777 John Wesley laid the foundation stone of the original chapel which he opened in 1779.
New King Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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In memory of the 417 persons killed in the World War II Baedeker Raids of 1942. [full inscription unknown]
James Street West, Bath, United Kingdom
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Here lived Marshal Wade M.P. B.1673 D.1748
Marshall Wade House, 14 Abbey Churchyard, Bath, United Kingdom
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Here lived George Saintsbury F.B.A., M.A., Hon. LL.D., D. Litt. 1916-1933.
1a Royal Crescent, Bath, United Kingdom
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To perpetuate the name and memory of John Arthur Roebuck Rudge who lived for many years in the adjoining house and after numerous experiments conducted in the basement was the first Englishman to produce moving pictures by means of photographs mounted on a revolving drum And also of his friend William Friese-Greene who had his studio at no. 9 The Corridor nearby,the inventor of commercial kinematography, being the first man to apply celluloid ribbon for this purpose. Kinematography can thus be attributed to the labours of these two citizens of Bath where this wonderful invention undoubtedly received its birth.
New Bond Street Place, Bath, United Kingdom
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In this house resided the celebrated Beau Nash and here he died Feby. 1761
Beau Nash House, St Johns Place, Bath, United Kingdom
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Theatre Royal Built 1805 George Dance the Younger John Palmer Restored 1863 C J Phipps Restored 1982 Donald Armstrong Carl Toms
Sawclose, Bath, United Kingdom
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Bathforum British School. Founded 1810. Occupied this site 1853-1926.
82-128 Rosewell Court, Monmouth Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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Here lived, worked and died Rudge inventor of the biophantascope the precursor of the kinematograph B.1837 D.1903
New Bond Street Place, Bath, United Kingdom
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Here Winston Spencer Churchill on July 26th 1897, made his first political speech.
The American Museum - Claverton Manor, Bath, United Kingdom
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This tablet marks the site of Harrison's Assembly Rooms where Richard (Beau) Nash presided as Master of ceremonies 1708-1761 Here also stood 1823-1933 The Royal Literary and Scientific Institution inaugerated by the poets Moore, Crabbe, and Bowles: now transferred to Queen Square
Pierrepont Street on the wall above Parade Gardens, Bath, United Kingdom
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R.M.S. Titanic's Oldest Survivor Edwina 'Winnie' Celia Troutt was born June 8, 1884 at 40 Claverton Street, Bath and was also known to have lived at 13 Newark Street in the city. Edwina sailed from Southampton as a Second-Class passenger on board R.M.S. Titanic on April 10, 1912, bound for New York. At 11.40pm on April 14, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg off the Newfoundland coast and began to sink. A total of 1,522 people lost their lives but around 713 survived, among them Edwina Troutt, who was rescued by the steamship Carpathia. Edwina died on December 3, 1984 at Redondo Beach, California, aged 100.
13 Newark Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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These hot springs were used by the Romans as early as the fist century. In area. In grandeur. In completeness. The Baths of Aquae Sulis were unequalled. The remains of their magnificence are here disclosed.
The Roman Baths - York Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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City of Bath North Parade Bridge Rebuilt 1936-7. Opened to traffic by his worship the Mayor Councillor W. F. Long July 1937
North Parade Bridge, Bath, United Kingdom
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Built by David Aust from the design and under the direction of W Tierney Clark Engineer AD 1836
North Parade Bridge, Bath, United Kingdom
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On this site stood The White Hart Inn, demolished, 1869. Eleazer & Moses Pickwick, proprietors.
Stall Street, Bath, United Kingdom
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Dundas Wharf & Aquaduct An historic wharf at the junction of the Somersetshire Coal and Kennet & Avon Canals, with adjacent aqueduct designed by John Rennie
Dundas Basin, Bath, United Kingdom
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Mary Shelley and 'Frankenstein'. The novel 'Frankenstein' was written on this spot in 1816-17. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, aged 19, arrived in Bath in September 1816 and took lodgings here at 5 Abbey Church Yard. That house was demolished to make way for the Pump Room extension in the 1890s. She attended scientific lectures by Dr Wilkinson in the nearby Kingston Lecture Room. he suggested that one day electricity might be used to bring inanimate matter to life. this idea resonated with Mary, who had recently experienced nightmares in thunderstorms and inspired her to write 'Frankenstein'. Mary married the poet Percy Shelly in December 1816. When she left Bath early in 1817 much of the novel had been written. It was published anonymously in London in January 1818. Coincidentally there is now a vault beneath this sign containing an electricity sub-station that delivers thousands of volts to central Bath.
The Pump Room, Abbey Chambers, Bath, United Kingdom
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Bath Green Park 'Midland' Station 1869-1966 From 1874, the northern terminus of the 72-mile Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway main line to Bournemouth, built over difficult terrain
Green Park Road, Bath, United Kingdom