The Corridor Bath
Glass-roofed Regency shopping arcade with a musicians' gallery and a cinema pioneer's former studio.
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This guide to the Corridor in Bath, one of the world's earliest shopping arcades, follows William Friese-Greene, the portrait photographer who kept a studio at number seven. It takes you into the eighteen-eighties, when he and the local instrument maker John Arthur Roebuck Rudge built machines that flashed photographs past the eye, and into an argument among historians that has never quite settled. Best heard walking slowly along the shopfronts toward number seven.
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