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A Postcard From Bath

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Ben Sixsmith
Feb 06, 2021
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Bath is a middle-class place. There are poor areas: Twerton, Snow Hill, Southdown. But cities are judged in the main, and in the main Bath is middle-class. They are not going to film Bridgerton in Hull.

It is a middle-class place, but it is a curious place. One of the most Bathish stories I know starts grimly. A man was stabbed in a pub near the Snow Hil…

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