THE REPLANNING OF BATH
[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The Bath Corporation Bill dealing with this matter has now appeared. It is an elaborate measure running to 75 pages and is concerned mainly with city improvements affecting traffic and transport. These, no doubt, will receive attention, but it might have been thought that when the modernisation of so characteristic a street as Milsom Street was contemplated some regard would have been shown to the ()Onion of architects qualified to speak with authority on eighteenth-century architecture. There is no trace of this regard in the Bill, nor of any regard for those who like to think of the wonderful place Bath occupied in the literary and social life of the eighteenth century, and to visualise what it looked like. Too many interesting places have gone or are going surely Bath, which is known all over the world and is in many respects unique, is the last place where such changes should be made,—Your obedient servant,
S. A. Bow),
13 Brock Street; Bath. Archdeacon, and Rector of Bath.
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