Bath Record Office: Local Studies
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Bath Record Office: Archives & Local Studies
The Guildhall
High Street
Bath
England
BA1 5AW
Telephone: 01225 477 421
Email: local_studies@bathnes.gov.uk
Open: Tuesday-Thursday 9-1, 2-5; Friday 9-1, 2-4.30
- Research Service
The Local Studies collection is now co-located with Bath Records Office: Archives and both collections can be accessed together
ARCHON code: 256
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Collections information
Businesses (4)
- AH Tucker Ltd, woollen manufacturers Frome, Somerset
- Bath Theatre Royal Co Ltd, Bath, theatre company Bath, Somerset
- Orchard Street Theatre Bath, Somerset
- Stevens & Bailward, dyers Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
Organisations (16)
- Bath Assembly Rooms Bath, Somerset
- Bath Church Institute Bath, Somerset
- Bath Church School Managers Union Bath, Somerset
- Bath Eclectic Society Bath, Somerset
- Bath Field Club Bath, Somerset
- Bath Literary Society Bath, Somerset
- Bath Male Voice Glee Society Bath, Somerset
- Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club Bath, Somerset
- Bath Orpheus Glee Society Bath, Somerset
- Bath Philharmonic Society Bath, Somerset
- Bath Royal Literary and Philosophical Association Bath, Somerset
- Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Bath, Somerset
- Bath Socratic Society Bath, Somerset
- Bath Southern Dispensary Bath, Somerset
- Old Bath Preservation Society Bath, Somerset
- Somerset Street Baptist Church, Bath Bath, Somerset
Persons (46)
- Allen, Ralph, (1693-1764), businessman and philanthropist Bath, Somerset
- Anstey, Christopher, (1756-1827), clergyman
- Beckford, William, (1760-1844), Author MP Art Collector
- Broadley, Alexander Meyrick, (1847-1916), lawyer, journalist, historian and collector
- Caley, John, (1763-1834), archivist, antiquary and Secretary to Record Commission
- Champion, Joseph, (fl 1733-1764), calligrapher
- Cooke, Thomas Potter, (1786-1864), Actor
- Cotterell, Thomas Sturge, (fl 1927), local historian
- Downman, Edward Andrews, (d 1931), Anglican clergyman and antiquary
- Falconer, William, (1744-1824), physician and writer
- Freeman, Edward Augustus, (1823-1892), historian
- Gay, Robert, (d 1738), MP
- Graves, Richard, (1715-1804), Poet and Novelist
- Irvine, James Thomas, (1825-1900), architect
- Jackson, John Edward, (1805-1891), Anglican Clergyman, antiquary, librarian to Lord Bath
- Jay, William, (1769-1853), dissenting minister
- Kilvert, Francis, (1793-1863), antiquary
- Landor, Walter Savage, (1775-1864), author
- Linley, William, (1771-1835), composer and author London;India
- Long, Charles Edward, (1796-1861), Genealogist Antiquary
- Lonsdale, William, (1794-1871), geologist
- McFall, Frances Elizabeth Bellenden, (1854-1943), novelist
- O'Donovan, Richard, (1768-1829), Lieutenant General
- Palmer, Charles, (1777-1851), Major General
- Parish, John, (1743-1829), merchant and philanthropist
- Peach, Robert Edward Myhill, (fl 1876-1896), antiquary
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch, (1741-1821), literary figure and writer
- Powell, David Thomas, (1773-1848), antiquary
- Poynton, Francis John, (1828-1903), rector of Kelston, antiquary
- Rack, Edmund, (? 1735-1787), Miscellaneous Writer
- Roebuck, John Arthur, (1801-1879), politician
- Sale, George, (c 1697-1736), orientalist
- Savage, James, (1767-1845), antiquary
- Scott, Sir George Gilbert, (1811-1878), Knight, architect
- Sheridan, Elizabeth Ann, (1754-1792), vocalist
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, (1751-1816), dramatist and politician Dublin, County Dublin
- Shickle, Charles William, (d 1927), clergyman and local historian
- Siddons, Sarah, (1755-1831), actress
- Skinner, John, (1772-1839), rector of Camerton antiquary
- Sydenham, Sydney, (fl 1907-1912), antiquary
- Trusler, John, (1735-1820), clergyman, author and bookseller
- Turner, William, (d 1568), dean of Wells, physician and botanist
- Tyte, William, (fl 1903-1913), antiquary
- Warner, Richard, (1763-1857), Clergyman and Antiquary
- Wood, John, (1704-1754), Architect
- Wood, John, (1728-1781), Architect
Diaries (4)
- Curry, John, (1811-1831), Overseer Of The Parish Of Walcot, Bath Bath, Somerset
- Jones, Anne Harriet James, (fl 1837-1841), travel diarist France;Germany;Italy
- Mack, W, (1889-1889) United States of America
- Wood, Emily, (1877-1878) Bath, Somerset
Families (3)
- Cherry-Garrard family of Lamer Lamer, Hertfordshire;Denford, Berkshire;Kintbury, Berkshire;Little Wittenham, Berkshire;Sandridge, Hertfordshire;Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire;Newington, Kent;Sittingbourne, Kent;London;Holborn, Middlesex;Floore, Northamptonshire;Bath, Somerset;Coventry, Warwickshire;Ludgershall, Wiltshire
- Garrard family, baronets, of Lamer Lamer, Hertfordshire;Sandridge, Hertfordshire;Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire;Newington, Kent;Sittingbourne, Kent;London;Holborn, Middlesex;Floore, Northamptonshire;Bath, Somerset;Coventry, Warwickshire;Ludgershall, Wiltshire
- Long family of Hurts Hall Hurts Hall, Suffolk;Longville, Jamaica;Saxmundham, Suffolk
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (2)
- NRA 25737 Bath Reference Library: MS collections link to scanned list
- NRA 41514 James Thomas Irvine, architect: corresp, papers and drawings