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No. 1 Royal Crescent as it has been

No. 1 Royal Crescent as it has been. Successful visitor attraction with c.50,000 visitors 5 historic dressed rooms and shop Bath Preservation Trust headquarters Educational visits and lectures.

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No. 1 Royal Crescent as it has been

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  1. No. 1 Royal Crescent as it has been • Successful visitor attraction with c.50,000 visitors • 5 historic dressedrooms and shop • Bath PreservationTrust headquarters • Educational visits and lectures

  2. Reference to the domestic offices: “detached by a small open Court, but united by a Passage, under a covered Way …”

  3. Henry Sandford Born: 30 December 1719 in Castlerea, County Roscommon 1741-1776: MP for Roscommon, Kildare and Carrick 1750: Marries Sarah Moore, daughter of 1st Viscount Mountcashel. They have 5 children. She dies in xxx 1776: Moves to Bath and takes up residence at Number One where he remains until his death. 1796: Sandford dies at Number One: ‘a gentleman of the most benevolent disposition’

  4. Bath Chronicle - 8 Dec 1785 – “Ford at his shop (late Mr Gill's) in Churchyard leading to Cheap St, Bath - supplies soups, pies, polonies in highest perfection”.

  5. “Caridge of Wine from Castlerea to be sent to Bath... 2 Hampiers sent with wine to Bath” Bill account addressed to Henry Sandford on 25 June 1777 (Pakenham-Mahon papers held at the National Library of Ireland)

  6. WOW!

  7. Thank you to our funders and supporters. We are still fundraising – there’s still time to be a part of it! www. bath-preservation-trust.org.uk

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