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was the promenade of early days. The name as a general term 
for the parades survived for long time and has left its special 
name for us to day. But this “‘ Walk ” with the houses alongside 
it very much narrowed a sometimes busy roadway and complaint 
was made of—‘“‘the narrowness of the passage leading from the 
Grove to Simpson’s Rooms and the Parades, a place incon- 
venient and troublesome and when company are assembled even 
dangerous as the chairmen are careless.” In fact complainant got 
a dig from a chair pole which laid him up for some days.* Here 
too, on the Parades, in Pierpoint St., and Galloway’s Buildings 
were the silk and lace shops to tempt the Jadies and their 
gallants. In time then the houses were pulled down and the 
road widened and the present Terrace built say about 1800.T 
Thus there can be no house here in any way associated with the 
Sheridans. In the perambulation to which lord Dufferin was 
treated, notwithstanding the total absence of fact, he was shown 
this house, as one that was occupied by the Sheridans, but the 
story stopped there; no tablet fortunately has been put on it. 
It may be further noticed as a curious instance how soon a 
statement if not promptly contradicted may be treated as fact as 
when announcing the death of a Sheridan at the Cape in Sept 
1go1 it is recorded that he was a descendant of R. B. Sheridan 
who lived at Bath at 7 Terrace Walk from 1771-3.1 Sheridan 
did not live at 7 Terrace Walk and he was not at Bath in 1773. 
Mr. Peach, who in his Historic Houses § and generally had made 
this subject his own and should not according to rule have been 
interfered with, ‘‘ could not assign to Sheridan any definite place 
“of abode.” But, he continues,—‘ there is little doubt that in his 
many visits to Bath he resided on or near the Parades and not 
unlikely at the house of his wife’s father.” Mr. Peach should 
have completed such simple suggestions by simply adding,—or 
* Bath Chronicle, 4 April 1771. 
+ ‘‘ Peach, Street Lore of Bath,” p. 145. 
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