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The Moore Family of 29 Tennyson Road, Bath, Somerset (1905-1970)

While researching my own family home in Bath, I came across a newspaper clipping about a young soldier from the house opposite. What began as curiosity became a much deeper investigation into the Moore family, who lived at 29 Tennyson Road for sixty-five years.
At the centre of that story is Willie Moore — athlete, tank officer, oil engineer and twice a soldier — wounded at Loos and Cambrai, awarded the Military Cross and later working the oilfields of Venezuela and Iraq. But the family around him proved equally worth knowing. This is their story.

The History of 24 Bath Street & 1-3 Market Place, Frome, Somerset

During the summer of 2021, Gorgon Stone Conservation was employed to perform what they thought to be a simple paint stripping job on a Georgian building in the centre of the town, only to discover three different layers of old signage underneath. The company carefully removed the paint to reveal a wonderful glimpse at some of the former lives of this unusual curved property, situated at 1 Market Place (formally 25 Bath Street) in Frome, Somerset. I was intrigued to know what I could find out about the businesses on the old signage, uncovering over 200 years of history, stretching all the way along from 24 Bath Street to 1-3 Market Place.

The History of 7 Tennyson Road, Bath, Somerset

Tennyson Road (1905)

The houses along Tennyson Road were built in 1897 on land leased from St. John’s Hospital. The lease began on 21st December 1895 for 499 years, and there were 33 houses built in total. Using census and electoral records, it is possible to trace the occupants of 7 Tennyson Road from 1899 (two years after it was built) to 1939 (three years before it sustained serious war damage and was rebuilt), more or less covering its existence in its original form.