This is Victoria Park where the Fox children would have played long ago.
Some early fall color.
Lark Place was built in 1717 of honey-colored Bath stone. It is along the coach route between Bristol and Bath and today that route is still the highway. The Fox family lived in #2.
We weren't able to go inside; the currect residents aren't interested in showing people around.
Few people today know why this street is called Brassmill Lane.
Locksbrook Place where the Fox men used their metal-working skills in making coaches.
The coaches would be driven down here--
past this round corner
Next door is the cemetery. The horses that pulled the hearses would come into the same paddock area.
It took Farrell a while to recall where our common ancestor, Mary Foreman Fox was buried.
But he did locate it. Sadly, the cemetery is rather neglected.
As we walked toward the River Avon what did we find?
The Dolphin Inn was built in the 1720s and is the 2nd oldest public house in Bath.
The back side faces the river. The Fox family lived here in the 1840s.
We wanted to eat lunch at the Dolphin but a bunch of cyclists had descended and the wait would have been long. At least we got to see the inside.
From a pedestrian bridge across the River Avon, one can easily see Dutch Island or Brassmill Island which is man-made. Several families from near the German/Dutch border were brought in because of their metal working skills. The Fox family was one of them. The mills are long gone but the island remains.
I had been wondering what the coaches looked like when Farrell pointed out this painting in the pub where we had lunch.
Cousin Farrell whose meticulous research has enabled me to not only extend my family tree back several generations but to enjoy the stories of their lives.
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