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'Bath Commercialis'd'...   Written by Mandy N (11/27/2006 3:43 p.m.) in consequence of the missive, Shops, penned by JulieW
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Trevor Fawcett mentions Mollands pastrycooks and confectioners at 2 Milsom Street and of long established Stall Street pastry cooks. (pp.76-77)
Bath pastry cooks appear to have been famous well into the C19th.
Wedgewood & Bentley moved their showroom of pottery with the famous jasperware to Milsom Street in the 1770s'.
The Cowards' exclusive lace shop was located in Stall Street. (pp.62-63)

This is interesting...

Fawcett also comments for Georgians ' a printshop offered a rare scene of pictorial abundance. No wonder that Admiral Croft ( in Jane Austen's "Persuasion" ) could never pass a certain Bath printseller's without looking in the window'. Festooned with engravings and etchings, mezzotints and aquatints,...picturesque views and old master reproductions, printshop windows drew spectators like a magnet'. (p.87)

Fawcett says Georgian Bath was set apart with it's trade in luxury commodieties-silks, laced coats, confectioners' shops and fine jewellers which brought fashionable people to the city.


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