Update Log
December 20 2012 Chris Morrissey has now taken over maintenance of this site. The contact on the LINKS page has been changed to Chris.
October 19 2012 The contact us on the LINKS page has been changed to Neal Kerss the owner, and developer, of the site.
July 27 2012 A short article about the street party for the Diamond Jubilee in 2012 added to the REMINISCENCES section on the PEOPLE page.
October 9 2011 Memorials added for three plots in Sections B and one in Section D. PDFs updated to reflect the memorials for houses No 1, 5, 12, 24, 33 and 42.
September 26 2011 A new article on the PEOPLE page for Lawrence Harry Wilson who lived first at No 34 and then at No 13.
September 25 2011 PDFs for No 45 and No 47 updated with the information from the September 20 2011 update. And a minor correction to the memorial for John Gregory.
September 23 2011 A short article, first printed in the Sydney Buildings Newsletter, about the street party for the Royal Wedding in 2011 is available from the REMINISCENCES section on the PEOPLE page.
September 20 2011 Some of the original deeds for No 47 have been made available by the owner. Additional information about the early history of No 47, and the connection with No 45 and No 46, can be viewed by accessing the MORE option for these houses on the BUILDINGS page.
August 24 2011 The list of names of all know residents in Sydney Buildings, located from Section 4 of the PEOPLE page in PDF format, has been updated.
August 23 2011 Plot references for memorials in Sections A, B and E updated where necessary to conform to those used by Dr Philip Bendall. Minor amendments made to the PDF lists for houses No 9, 28 and 40.
June 21 2011 Plot reference for the memorial for Catherine Emerson corrected from D.T.41 TO D.T.42.
June 20 2011 Access to the Smallcombe Cemetery inscriptions is now from a new page, MEMORIALS. The text from the INTRODUCTION page has been merged with the HOME page content, and the INTRODUCTION page deleted.
June 19 2011 The plot numbers for all the memorials so far located have now been amended, where necessary, in line with the maps produced by Dr Philip Bendall for the Bathwick History Society. The corresponding PDF lists have been reloaded to reflect these changes. New photographs have been taken for Sections V to Z. Minor corrections to the names for house Nos 24, 52 and 56.
June 9 2011 Updates to the PDF list of residents accessed from the PEOPLE page. Revised PDF lists of the residents for all houses viewed from the BUILDINGS page.
Noted on the LINKS page: the project to record the memorials at Smallcombe Cemetery has now been completed by Dr Philip Bendall, in conjunction with the Bathwick History Society, and a copy, in both book and disc format, has been lodged at the Bath Records Office.
February 24 2011 Additions and corrections to the Smallcombe Cemetery memorials for Areas A, B, C and D.
September 15 2010 Updates to the residents lists; all the PDFs viewed from the PEOPLE page have been updated.
July 22 2010 Two more pages, accessed via Section 2 on the PEOPLE page, for former residents of Nos 37 and 52. Photographs added to the PDF residents list for Smallcombe Farm and the Cemetery Lodge. Correction to the PDF list for No 52. Links inserted into the MORE articles to return the viewer to the last point of reference on the BUILDINGS page.
July 20 2010 References to two memorials located at Smallcombe Cemetery for former owners of No 39 added to the article for that building, accessed from the BUILDINGS page. Additional pages, accessed via Section 2 on the PEOPLE page, for former residents of Nos 10, 32 and 36. Two images provided by the author have been added to the article on the Sissons family. The note on Jesse Woodward from No 16 has been moved from the BUILDINGS page to this section. The BUILDINGS page will, in future, only contain articles sourced from deeds.
July 13 2010 Minor corrections to the last added resident memorials for Smallcombe cemetery and the associated memorial lists in PDF formats updated. All accessed from the PEOPLE page.
May 27 2010 Resident memorials in Smallcombe cemetery added for Areas F, G, H, J and L. The associated memorial lists in PDF formats have been updated to reflect the new additions. All accessed from the PEOPLE page. And the [M] code indicating a memorial against the related names on the house lists, viewed from the BUILDINGS page. An explanation, above the Area A list, of the memorial format on THE SMALLCOMBE CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS page (accessed from the PEOPLE page). An 'indebted' note on the LINKS page.
May 9 2010 Resident memorials in Smallcombe cemetery added: Area A plots C15 and Fa8; Area C plots R6, T9, T11, V6, W21, X21; Area D plots Fa25, Fa36, Ha26, I37, Q43 and Z48. The associated memorial lists in PDF formats have been updated to reflect the new additions. All accessed from the PEOPLE page. And the [M] code indicating a memorial against the related names on the house lists, viewed from the BUILDINGS page.
May 5 2010 Residents recorded for an additional 8 years on the PDFs for the buildings (accessed from the BUILDINGS page) and reflected in the full list of residents in alphabetical order (accessed from SECTION 5 on the PEOPLE page).
April 23 2010 Additional information for No 29 added.
April 20 2010 Digest of the early deeds for Darlington Cottage and No 29 added to the BUILDINGS page (follow the MORE tags). The PDF file for No 29, also viewed from the BUILDINGS page, updated. Two additional family photographs added to Val Milward's reminiscences of her childhood at No 29, located from the PEOPLE page.
February 2 2010 Two family photographs added to Val Milward's reminiscences of her childhood at No 29. Sarah Pooley reinstated as the author of the article on No 21. [The article is incorrectly attributed to Jennie Lawton on the blog]
January 16 2010 A photograph added to the article for No 21 showing the back view from the canal, circa 1900, accessed from the BUILDINGS page, and the author correctly attributed as Jennie Lawton, not Sarah Pooley [apologies to Jennie and Sarah]. The code [M] added to names on the residents list for houses 23a, 24, 27 and 29 where memorials in the Smallcombe Cemeteries have been identified. Small correction to the two PDF lists showing memorials by house and by name: Mrs Bright was from No 24, not 25 as previously shown. Two articles about residents of No 29: the Sissons sisters who lived there in the 1870s, and the daughter of the present owner who grew up in Sydney Buildings in the 1950s and 1960s. Both of these articles can be viewed from the PEOPLE page.
January 10 2010 The code [M] added to names on the residents list for houses 9 to 17 where memorials in the Smallcombe Cemeteries have been identified. The two Bathwick Tavern blog articles by Chris Morrissey are now in Section 1 on the PEOPLE page. June Ward's photographs and text for the 2002 Jubilee street party are now in Section 3 on the PEOPLE page. Information about a former resident of No 16 can be accessed via that house number from the BUILDINGS page.
January 6 2010 The code [M] added to names on the residents list for houses 1 to 8 where memorials in the Smallcombe Cemeteries have been identified. Photograph dated 1994 added for No 2, accessed via the BUILDINGS page.
July 31 2009 Correction to Area D text and the addition of Area E information, in the Smallcombe Cemetery MEMORIALS section viewed from the PEOPLE page.
July 1 2009 A new article, 'Waking the Dead', added to Section 1 on the PEOPLE page.
June 14 2009 MORE> information is now available from the BUILDINGS page for house numbers 42 and 60. A new image has been added to the page for No 2, and the full Sydney Buildings residents list is now accessed from the PEOPLE page.
June 12 2009 Three PDF lists added. On the BUILDINGS page, a full alphabetical list of all the former residents we have recorded so far, showing where they lived and for which years. And on the PEOPLE page, in the MEMORIALS section, two lists, by name and by house number, of all the former residents we have been able to match at Smallcombe Cemetery.
June 11 2009 Name corrections made on the PDF lists for house numbers: 2, 8, 9, 12, 15, 21, 28, 29, 32, 37, 38, 39, 42 and 54.
June 10 2009 Area D added to the Smallcombe Cemetery inscriptions, located from the PEOPLE page. Also the inscription for Mrs Eleanor Parker has been added in Area A. Reminiscences from the Reads [No 54], also from the PEOPLE page. And MORE> information is now available from the BUILDINGS page for house numbers 2, 6, 9, 12, 21 and 28.
June 5 2009 New articles added to the PEOPLE page: The History of Sydney Buildings Householders' Association by Peter Hubbard in PDF format, an article on Reverend Hugh Gough by Sarah Pooley and reminiscences from the Craig sisters [No 28] and Tony Heaton [Malt House]. Also a photograph added to Chris Morrissey's article on Bishop Mervyn Stockwood.
April 25 2009 Photograph added to Chris Morrissey's article on Sheila Mundle. Inscriptions from Smallcombe Cemetery Areas for B and C added. PDF file for house number 1 updated [spelling correction for Matthew Hill].
April 19 2009 Chris Morrissey's article "A Glimpse of How it was in the Early Days" updated. Smallcombe Cemetery article revised and inscriptions from Area A now included. Pdf files for house numbers 4, 27 and 49 updated.
April 6 2009 Article on the Smallcombe Nonconformist Cemetery added to the PEOPLE page. The article includes area maps and the inscriptions and photographs for 10 matches with Sydney Buildings former residents.
March 23 2009 PDF file for No 48 corrected.
February 15 2009 Site created.
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