Audley Park Road. |
"Sunnylands" is wrongly shown as "Sandylands" in the census. |
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Belgrave Road. |
Census wrongly shows this as "London Road". |
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Bellotts Road. |
Wrongly shown as "Broad Lane" in the census. |
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Assembly Rooms. |
Both the Clerk of Works records and the memories of a firefighter who attended, identify this as a definite incendiary fire. However the census does not show an actual bomb. |
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Brook Road. |
Census shows this as "Lower Bristol Road". |
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Calton Road. |
Wrongly shown as "Beechencliffe Place" in the census. |
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Circus. |
This was originally an Unexploded Bomb, but it exploded later when the Fire Service started a pump nearby. |
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Crescent Gardens. |
Wrongly shown as "Curzon Gardens" in the census. |
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Edward Street. |
There is an Edward Street in the Locksbrook area, and another Edward Street in Bathwick. Only the Locksbrook one was bombed. |
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Elm Grove Terrace. |
All bombs that fell in Elm Grove Terrace are shown in the Census as "Lower Bristol Road". |
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Excelsior Street. |
Wrongly shown as "Excelsior Road" in some records. |
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Green Park. |
In 1942, the terraces of houses were Green Park Buildings, and "Green Park" referred either to the grassy area between the terraces, or the area generally. Nowadays, the west wing, which is all that remains of the original Green Park Buildings, is just called "Green Park". The general area is also known as "Green Park". |
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High Common. |
Shown as "Sion Hill" in the census. |
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How Hill, Twerton Farm. |
Twerton Farm is wrongly shown as "Tiverton Farm" in the census. However, the original name for Twerton was variously spelt Tiverton or Twiverton (it was changed to Twerton soon after the introduction of national postal services to avoid confusion with Tiverton in Devon) and some of the oldest maps do show this area as "Tiverton Farm". |
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Kingsmead Street. |
Wrongly shown as "Kingsmead Square" in the census. |
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Cross Lane. |
Cross Lane ran between Kingsmead Street and Monmouth Street, with its Monmouth Street junction directly opposite the combined Princes Street/Beaufort Square junction. It appears to have been a row of buildings along a footpath (similar to Bridewell Passage today) rather than a road, and it does not show on road maps. |
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Lansdown Place East. |
This is shown as just "Lansdown Place" in the census. |
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Linden Gardens. |
Wrongly shown as "Weston Road" in the census. |
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Livingstone Villas
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Lower Oldfield Park |
Livingstone Villas is a row of houses that occupies the south side of Lower Oldfield Park between Livingstone Road and Junction Road. However, one map of the time wrongly showed that length of road as being named Livingstone Villas rather than recognising that Lower Oldfield Park contained Livingstone Villas. This might have caused confusion when compiling the census. |
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Lower Bristol Road. |
The Lower Bristol Road could be confusing for those not familiar with Bath. It starts at the railway arches by Bath Spa Station and runs westwards until it meets the A4 just west of New Bridge. For the whole of this length, the roadway is known as Lower Bristol Road, but the addresses of the properties along this route change because many of the terraces and larger buildings along the road have their own names. So starting from the railway arches, travelling west, the addresses are:
South side of the road
In the railway arches:
Smith & Elliott (tobacconists)
The Bath Mortuary
J Clifford & Sons (Scrap metals)
W Sumsion (Furniture Removers)
Lower Bristol Road, numbers 4 to 89;
St Peter's Terrace, numbers 1-18;
Bath Steam Laundry;
St Peters Church;
Isaac Pitman & Sons;
Elm Grove Villa;
Elm Grove Terrace, numbers 1-17;
Oak Cottage;
The Royal Oak;
Bellotts House;
Vernon Terrace, numbers 1-23;
West Twerton Nursery;
F J Blackmore & Sons (Builders)
Argyle Terrace, numbers 1-11;
Gospel Hall;
Argyle Terrace, numbers 12-26;
Albany House (Post Office);
Bath Timber Supply Ltd;
Railway Buildings, numbers 1-9;
Station Works
Horace B Butcher (Refreshments stall).
(The remainder of this side of the road is a railway embankment for the GWR line to Bristol) |
North side of the road
Lower Bristol Road, numbers 240 to 238;
Collins James & Son, millers;
Bayers;
Stothert and Pitt;
Wm Small & Son (Cabinet Makers)
Lower Bristol Road, numbers 166 to 129;
Sidney Hawkins & Son (Timber);
Victoria Buildings, numbers 1-33;
Hopmead Cottage;
Hopmead House;
Hopmead Buildings;
Shellmex & BP Ltd;
Anglo American Oil Co
Redline Glico Ltd;
Parker & Croft (Petrol Station);
Fredrk T Toogood (Coal merchant)
Coronation Place, numbers 1-4;
Roseberry Place, numbers 5-13;
City Sand & Gravel Co Ltd;
City Steam Transport;
Fair View numbers 5-1;
Charlton Buildings, numbers 1-29;
Stanley Place, numbers 1-13;
Fieldings terrace, numbers 1-16;
Avon Buildings, numbers 1-14;
Avon House;
Twerton Parochial School;
The Hollies;
Twerton Villa;
New Road Buildings, numbers 1-10;
Avon Works;
Isaac Carr & Co Ltd (Woollen Mfrs);
Woodlands Buildings, numbers 1-9;
Woodland Boating Station;
Sparrows Cranes. |
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Manvers Street, Fortt's Biscuit Factory. |
Wrongly shown as "Barton Buildings" in the census (Barton Buildings is behind the top of Milsom Street). However, the records specifically mention Fortt's, so Manvers Street was definitely intended. |
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Monksdale Road. |
Wrongly shown as "Marks Dale Road" in the census. |
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Moorland Road. |
Wrongly shown as "Moorfield Road" in the census. |
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Mount Road. |
Wrongly shown as "Haycombe Estate" in the census. |
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Old Bridge. |
This Unexploded Bomb might still be there. In a letter to the Bath Chronicle on 7 October 2005, Marion Fletcher wrote: "I lived at 30 Southgate Street during the Second World War and was in the cellar when the unexploded bomb dropped outside Churchill House followed by another which destroyed the city mission in Somerset Street. We were evacuated in the early hours and not allowed to return for several days. Many times the bomb disposal team tried to find the bomb but were unsuccessful and came to the conclusion it was embedded in the river." |
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The Paragon. |
Wrongly shown as "Guinea Lane" in the census. |
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Primrose Hill. |
Wrongly shown as "Weston Park" in the census. |
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Roseberry Road. |
There is a discrepancy in the wartime records, and the road name is spelt wrongly. The written summary shows this as Upper Bristol Road, yet the corresponding map clearly shows that the bomb fell just north of the Lower Bristol Road, in Rosebery Road. |
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Queen Street Station. |
Queen Street Station was renamed Green Park Station after the war; and although no longer used as a station, the building still bears that name today. |
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Shaft Road. |
Wrongly shown as "Prior Park Road" in the census. |
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Sion Hill "Acacia Villa". |
Wartime maps show a building with this name, but not the 1940 street directory. The building in the location shown by the map now bears the name "Lyde Cottage" and this name does appear in the 1940 directory. |
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St.Michael's Road. |
The Census wrongly shows this as "Old St Michael Road", perhaps to distinguish this road in Locksbrook from one of the same name in Twerton. |
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Stanley Road. |
This is the Stanley Road by Manvers Street. |
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Stanley Road West. |
Wrongly shown as "Stanley Road" in the census. Stanley Road used to be a road linking Manvers Street to Railway Road (where the Bus Station now is). Stanley Road West was (and still is) in Oldfield Park. |
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Triangle East
Triangle West |
The census wrongly shows both of these as just "Triangle". |
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Upper Hedgemead Road. |
Wrongly shown as "Camden Crescent" in the census. |
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Upper Lansdown Mews. |
This is shown as "Lansdown Crescent" in the census. |
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Wells Way. |
Although now seen as a single word "Wellsway", it was two words in 1942. |
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Weston Road. |
Wrongly shown as "Weston Park" in the census. |
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