Milsom Street
Georgian shopping street lined with elegant shopfronts and a former eighteenth-century octagonal chapel.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Milsom Street in Bath follows a young German musician who came to play the organ at the Octagon Chapel in the seventeen sixties. It touches on a chapel built for fashionable comfort, a sister brought over from Hanover to sing, and a house slowly filling with workbenches. Stand facing number thirty-nine, the old chapel among the shopfronts, while you listen.
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