Laggan House

Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 11 Dec 2015

Large Victorian house in College Road now divided into seven flats. It was originally called The Limes, before its name was changed to Laggan (appearing as such in the 1933 6 inch map), before the addition of the word House gave it its current name. Among its uses have been a boarding house for the Royal School for Daughters of Officers of the Army in nearby Lansdown Road (now part of Royal High School, Bath). In the early part of the Second World War, the school was evacuated to Longleat, and was requisitioned by the Admiralty's Hydrographic Department, and Laggan was used to house HM Nautical Almanac Office as well as the Assistant Hydrographer, the Tides Department and the Superintendent of Sailing Directions and his staff. These were housed here from September 1939 until November 1941 when they moved to Block E of new office developments at Ensleigh, further up Lansdown Road (see Image). For article on the HMNAO, including its time at Laggan, see http://www.royalobservatorygreenwich.org/articles.php?article=913.

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