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May 2025 From the author’s desk…

6 May, 2025 in From the author's desk

A GOOD LUCH IN BATH SIXTY YEARS AGO…

Mulholand had ordered a large brandy and looked around the tea shop.

‘Unusual place.’

‘One of the oldest houses in Bath, dates back to the fifteenth century.  There has been a bakery here since Roman times. Gives you an idea of what medieval Bath must have looked like with its narrow alleys and overhanging gabled roofs. Used to be called Lilliput Alley, and hasn’t much changed except they raised the street level about 300 years ago so that the original ground floor became a cellar.’

His boss had ordered the special, the Sally Lunn Bun with the recommended toppings.

‘And the bun?’

‘Recipe discovered in a secret cupboard in 1937. Named after a Huguenot refugee, a woman who fled France and came to work here in 1680. It’s very different, I think you’ll enjoy it.’

 

 

 

Another extract from chapter forty nine of – ‘Go Swift and Fara Tale of Bath’ The first book of The Westcott Chronicles

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THE THEATRE ROYAL, BATH ‘Welcome, most welcome,’ the man started with a flamboyant flourish of hands. ‘Theatrical life has always been precarious in Bath. Over 250 years ago, 257 to…

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THEATRE IS SO IMPORTANT The large brown envelope was awaiting him when he arrived home just after six, and made him feel even more sorry for himself. It contained the…

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