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come together to enter the North Gate and lead direct into High 

 Street, while the Upper Borough Walls and Gascoigne Place 

 represent the street which followed round the line of the wall 

 on the inside. Again on the site of the West Gate the line of 

 Westgate Street and Westgate Buildings intersect, and Monmouth 

 Street and other ways converge upon the same point. Southgate 

 Street is the avenue leading from the South Gate to the river, 

 and the Lower Borough Walls again the thoroughfare inside the 

 wall. 



As traffic increased it became necessary, as we know, to remove 

 the gates. Some detail of the demolition may prove interesting. 

 A newspaper paragraph of the date July 27th, 1754,* says : — 



We hear that the north and south gates of this city will be pulled 

 down to make the streets more commodious, and the Corporation are 

 also causing the Bridge to be made wider for the better passing of 

 carriages, &c. 



This was the Old Bridge ; so long ago as that a source of 

 trouble and anxiety to the city authorities. 



The same writer states under the date March 3rd, 1755 : — 



Last week the North Gate of the city was pulled down, as well as 

 the Houses on each side, in order to make that avenue more commo- 

 dious, which before was very narrow. 



Then comes the following sentence, which seems to show that 

 the Town Council was much better thought of then than now : — 



The late useful and great alterations made in the widening the 

 Bridge, the making the avenues leading to the city more convenient 

 for passengers, &c., &c., must redound to the honour of the present 

 members of the Corporation to latest posterity. 



The West Gate was not removed till twenty years later. Under 

 date of Wednesday, Jan. 31st, 1776, we readt : — 



• Bath Journal. 

 t Bath Chronicle. 



