Chairman's Notes

As announced at the last AGM we have been kindly approached by Mr and Mrs Daniels of 28A not only to take on the role of Editor but also to put the Newsletter onto the Internet and create www.royalcrescentbath.com

The committee were very impressed with the proposal and have authorised its development which has been both fast and impressive. We are now officially launching it to all.

The site itself has a public area which is free and available to all. The site also has a secure Members’ area which can be accessed once a member has been registered.

The Newsletter will now be replaced by a more regular “News Notes” email bulletin. It will contain automated links to all that is new on the website as well an updated “Chairman’s Notes”. These will be archived online.

Members without internet access will receive a printed copy and can request specific printed pages from the Secretary. A printed full colour master copy of the whole site will be available to borrow from the Editors.

Finally this is another “first” for the Crescent which we hope will be enjoyed by all.

Stephen Little Chairman, Royal Crescent Society

Please scroll down the items below and click on "more" to access the new updates on the site

Non Members Area

Royal Crescent Society:

Read about the Society's achievements; victory over the Topless Talking Buses (from a full copy of the Society's transport report of 1985, through to the final victory in 1999), rooftop aerials, civic-wide resident groups, parking charges, relaying the pavement. more...

News and Events:

Read the detailed archive of the those three operatic concerts and see some wonderful photos of the events. more...

Picture Gallery and References:

Look at historic illustrations, photographs of both the Crescent and some interiors of the houses from 1773 to the 1970s more...

Read our new Filmography and link to a full page on Northanger Abbey and some wonderful photographs of its filming. more...

Read our new Bibliography and of many new and rare books featuring the Crescent. more...

History:

The Crescent History has been significantly developed with much new material including:

eleven archive articles under Society archive more...

biographies of past famous residents (many under kind permission of Redcliffe Press) and others from our archive, plus the 1891 census more...

Bath history; Georgian Times has been updated by Mike Daw and Bath Magazine has kindly given permission for us to reprint one of their latest archive articles on John Wood more...

Read a fascinating article written by the Crescent's own George Saintsbury on "Bath in Literature" more...

General Information:

Read about what to see in and around Bath and link to individual sites for more information more...

Read about what's on in Bath more...

Members Area

Archives:

Read previous printed newsletters now available online (we still need 1 to 12 if anyone has them). Coming soon copies of AGMs and Committee minutes. more...

Committee Members:

You can now recognise those committee members who work on our behalf, as their photographs are now online more...

Crescent Life:

Read about that ever present Crescent person - the doorman at the hotel. more...

Issues:

You can now read about the proposed parking solution for the Crescent. Under Council matters you can also link on to their planning site, enter street name Royal Crescent and view all applications and their status against each house more...

Events:

Read about recent sunny events more...

Remember, all contributions, letters, photographs etc. are welcome.

Your Editorial Team

Martyn and Annie Daniels

editor@royalcrescentbath.com