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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
A lot of the doors are like that in Bath. A blue badge guide told us that this was to allow for the ladies dresses of the time...the pavements were wider too for the same reason.
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Aha! that makes sense - though I can't say I noticed them in Bath! We lived in a Georgian house in Warwick but it was 1806 and our door was normal size - the fashions in frocks had changed by then!
BTW sorry uploading cockup - reference to no 9 in my previous post should have been to 10.