Summary
'Everything vile and offensive is congregated there. All the scum of Bath - its low prostitutes, its thieves, its beggars - are piled up in the dens rather than houses of which the street consists'.
So wrote the Rev Whitwell Elwin in 1842 in describing the notorious Avon Street, the 'plague spot' of Victorian Bath.See the full content of this document
Extract
'Girls of the Town' Give Avon Street a Bad Name
It is from this starting point that historian Graham Davis will begin his colourful lecture Low Life in the Avon Street District on Sunday.
The talk, which takes pl...See the full content of this document
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