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all-important Victorian sense of quasi-rural superiority the graciously curved 1855 terrace of Ellenborough Crescent displayed Georgian-style city elegance and with its enormous communal front garden down to the very shoreline must have been looked on with envy. This was Bath-by-the-sea. There were pools and fountains set amidst footpaths, shrubberies and herbaceous borders. Detached villas then began to arise around Ellenborough Park and their owners also acquired rights of access to the garden - for the usual financial consideration. This park is now divided by Walliscote Road; the western section is a school playing field and the eastern part is admirably maintained by Weston Town Council, though all semblance of planting, statuary, fountains and imposed decorum have been relegated to history.