Comments on: Walter and Betsy Eskett

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:13:44 +0000

@Joe Great photo, when was it taken? The Arkana (The Flight Works) factory looks like its either under construction (unlikely as the windows or in) or had been damaged by fire?

By: Eleanor Swinburn

Eleanor Swinburn — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:48:42 +0000

@Joe
Thank you once again Joe. This is much appreciated, I know where the Golden Fleece is, I walked past it whilst there in 2008.
Regards
Eleanor.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:07:26 +0000

A photo is now available at:
http://www.proudoftwerton.com/pictures_2011/fieldings_road_old_photo.jpg

An early 20th century plan shows that the Atlas was on the corner directly opposite the Golden Fleece.

So in the photo it would be the building with the sign saying Symond’s Ales & Stouts.

By: Eleanor Swinburn

Eleanor Swinburn — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:44:07 +0000

@Joe
Thankyou Joe for that info, what a pity there is no photo of The Atlas Brewery.

At least I now know where it was .
Thanks again
Eleanor.
( West Australia)

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:34:12 +0000

From Swift and Elliot (2005) The Lost Pubs of Bath, page 129:

On the corner of Fielding’s Place was the Atlas Stores, which opened around 1880. When an inventory was carried out in 1906, it had a smoke room with a mahogany window screen, mahogany-topped drinking tables and a pannelled partition, a bar with front and side counters, a private glass room, and a jug & bottle. The outside of the building was lit by gas. Even though it had been renamed the Atlas Brewery by this time, it does not seem to have had its own brewery. The Atlas Brewery closed on 6 December 1962 and has, like the house Fielding stayed in, been demolished.

Link to Fielding’s Road on Google Maps:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=fielding’s+road&sll=51.380989,-2.388046&sspn=0.001097,0.002401&ie=UTF8&ll=51.381019,-2.388046&spn=0.002193,0.004801&t=h&z=18&iwloc=A