Tells the colourful history of the eighteenth-century suburb that once rivalled Bath as a fashionable spa for London society, later more involved in shipping, now regaining its 'status' as the site for luxury waterside flat developments.
The authors recall the varied experiences of notables like the artist Rolinda Sharples and Humphry Davy who experimented with laughing gas in Dowry Square, and of humbler residents whose personal testimonies of the 'hard but good' old days bring Hotwells' more recent history vividly to life.