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Identifier: wessex00hollrich (find matches)
Title: Wessex
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Holland, Clive, 1866- Tyndale, Walter, 1855-1943
Subjects: Dorset (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Adam & Charles Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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f the seventeenthcentury the interiors of the Bath houses were verypoor ; and he states that the houses of the richestinhabitants of the city were for the most part of themeanest architecture, and only two of them couldshow the modern comforts of sash windows. The growth of the city seems almost to havestood still from the end of the sixteenth to the endof the seventeenth centuries, as it is recorded thatduring that period it was only increased by seventeenhouses. In olden times the beggars of Bath were famous.The reason of their number and pertinacity is givenby Fuller as follows : Whither should fowl flock inhard frost but to the barn door ? Here all the twoseasons bring the general confluence of gentry. Modern Bath, with its fine architecture and appear-ance of general prosperity, and its popularity as aresidential resort, owes much to the work of twomen—Wood, the builder, and Beau Nash, the masterof the ceremonies. It was in 1728 that the elder 212 THE BRIDGE AT PRIOR PARK, BATH
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Advent of Beau Nash Wood began his building speculations, and erectedQueens Square on what had been a piece of wasteland. Twelve years later the fine North and SouthParades were built on what was formerly a meremarsh, and then followed Gay Street and the Circus.The magnificent Royal Crescent was designed by theelder Wood in 1769, and was erected about the sametime as Camden Place and Pulteney Street. Duringthis period Bath had immensely increased in popularity,and from the middle of the eighteenth century tillnearly the end of the reign of George III. it was thefocus of fashion and one of the greatest health-resortsin the Kingdom. The name of Beau Nash has become inseparablyconnected with Bath. He commenced life in thearmy, but soon, tiring of the profession, he left it andturned to the law, spending most of his time, however,as a man about town. He soon ran through hisproperty, and at the age of thirty was a ruined man,and almost entirely without resources of any kind.But the lucky c

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