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“The Cold Bath.” The water used was not drawn from the river but 
from a spring of very cold water on Lyncombe Hill, which spring with 
the house now belongs to my brother, Henry Greenway Howse, other 
land having been long since sold. 
I know of no celebrated person who ever lived in the house. The 
site may have been chosen for the convenience of loading barges with 
stone, as the Greenways had quarries on Combe Down, or on account 
of some supposed virtue in the cold water spring. The Greenways of 
that time were all engaged in stone work, and some of their carvings 
are still scattered about Bath I believe. 
The embanking of the river and other causes such as the Great 
Western Railway buildings have made the floods of this century so 
serious, that the old house in spite of its being built so strongly has 
been sadly wrecked, but it pleases me that, even in its fallen state 
_ you can recognise its merits. I regret its not being worthy the 
attention of the Antiquarian Field Club, but it has no public interest. 
Yours faithfully, 
Jan. oth, 1895. ELIZABETH W. HOWSE. 
On the present position of the Field Club I have great pleasure 
in recording its extreme prosperity in funds and innumbers. At 
the close of this year the balance in favour of the Club had 
arrived at the respectable sum of £44 4s. 9d., and the number of 
members was 98. In the obituary list of the year appear three 
members ; one Lieut.-Gen. H. F. Bythesea dating from 1881, the 
second Lieut.-Col. C. Skrine from 1886, and the third the Rev. 
C, R. Tollemache only from 1895. Three members retired from 
the Club and eight new members were enrolled on our list. The 
library has been greatly augmented both by private gifts and the 
Proceedings of the various Clubs and Institutions in corres- 
pondence with the Field Club. Amongst these the contributions 
of the Smithsonian Institute of Washington, U.S.A., the New York 
State Museum at Albany, and the United States Geological and 
