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Gloster Villas, BATH, BA1 5ND

This five acre recreation area is perched on the slopes above the London Road. It used to have housing on it until a landslide in 1889.

A tired and shabby shop front may have possibly enhanced the antiques business, but evidently not enough to save it.

This shiny artwork stands by the roundabout on the A4 London Road in Walcot. It is entitled 'Offspring' and was created in polished stainless steel by William Pye in 2008; it was inspired by an image by the photographer Edward Weston of the section through a nautilus shell. The sculpture features a trickle of water to add to the effect. Sadly the tree behind it has not been able to accompany it.

A bar that once was The Hat and Feathers is now actually known as The Hudson Steakhouse. A public house of the former name existed in Bath from about 1752 and had a reputation for a rather unconventional and lively clientele but the venue here was only created in the twentieth century. It closed in 2004 and the Hudson emerged in the following year. There is a benchmark on the corner by the railings - see Image

This particular cutmark is listed in the Benchmark Database: http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm53854 and is on the entrance to The Hudson Steakhouse. See Image] for a wider view.

See here for a list of his major projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Palmer_(Bath_architect)

M RS JENNY PRIDEAUX of Sydney Place, Bath; and Relict of HUMPHREY PRIDEAUX Esq r of Prideaux Place, County of Cornwall; Who died the 14 th day of August 1819, in the 84 th year of her age. She was a rare example of genuine worth, and of those amiable qualities which are the true sources of Human happiness. The advantages she enjoyed of an ample fortune, engaging manners, and a pleasing form, Were far surpassed by the beauties of her mind; by Modesty, Gentleness, Cheerfulness of Temper, Good Sense, Benevolence of Disposition, unaffected Piety, and Boundless Charity. These Virtues joined to most exemplary Patience and Resignation during a lingering and painful illness, endeared her to all ranks of Society; and rendered her, during life, the chief Pride and Comfort of HER GRANDAUGHTERS, JENNY ELEANOR BALL and MARY PHILLIPPA BALL, who thoroughly sensible of her uncommon Merit and their own misfortune in the loss of so excellent a Parent whom they so highly Esteemed and so dearly Loved, erected this Tablet, as a testimony of their AFFECTION, GRIEF, and GRATITUDE

Not with the hope of doing Justice to all his various Excellencies, the exalted endowments of his mind, the probity and integrity of his heart, or the sweetness of temper which years of continued anguish could neither diminish nor interrupt of him who may be truly said never to have opened his lips but to convey instruction or delight Is this Marble inscribed to the Memory of the Reverend THOMAS HARDCASTLE A.M. late Rector of Gamlingay, Co: Cam: https://theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/search/index.jsp and of Farley Co: Sur: and Vicar of Wapley, Co: Glouc: many years fellow and tutor of Merton College, and afterwards Saxon Professor in the University of Oxford. By his sad Widow ELEANOR HARDCASTLE But simply as a weak testimonial of her gratitude for all his kindness of her love to him whilst living, of her affliction, now he is no more. He died February 1 st 1814 Aged 63