WHAT pure delight is Trevor Porter's Then and Now column. The current series of Trowbridge's lost buildings is especially interesting.

The Roundstone never had the cachet of the George but I have happy memories of one or two people there in the 1940s.

Was the William Fitzgerald who leased the building from William Applegate the same Fitz from the pub on the opposite side of the road? If so, it was he that gave my husband, William a napkin ring for his second birthday (10/11/26) which he still uses today. Occasionally I show it to the silver polish! Fitz used to play golf with my father-in-law at Westbury in the 1930s. During the war he was the bane of my poor mother's life, she used to collect National Savings for the war effort in Bradford Road and once a fortnight took the money to be banked by Fred Snailum at the (I think) Trustee Savings Bank opposite the pub. She could never creep past without Fitz coming out wearing his baggy khaki shorts, handle-bar moustache bristling shouting 'Good morning Mrs George' and pulling her leg about something!

MRS PATIENCE MORRIS,

Sydney Road,

Bath.