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A ‘vision’ for Bath.
For the third time in recent years students from a renowned American university school of architecture have come to Bath to learn their trade and come up with their own ideas for improving the fabric...
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Letters from the past
Back in July work began on Bath Abbey‘s North aisle floor trial. This work is necessary to stabilize the subsiding floor, and to test the new geo-thermal heating system which, it is hoped, will use...
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A Bath that never was?
Sad to hear the decommissioning of Bath’s last remaining gasometer will be getting under way shortly – with its demolition to follow next year. Millions being spent clearing away the last visual...
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Seeing red.
The rare Victoria Regina pillar box – one of two in Great Pulteney Street – which has recently been repainted. I love the Royal Mail. I recently pointed out the difference in appearance of a Victoria...
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First ‘green’ Western
Network Rail’s monthly consultation meeting at Baths’s Guildhall. Click on images to enlarge. ‘We’re about to put Brunel back into his railway’ said the man from First Great Western when we started...
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Paving the way for Bath’s visitors.
Nice to welcome a new contributor to the Virtual Museum of Bath. Ken Tatem is a local historian who retired after 41 years in the Environment Agency and its predecessors. He was a Flood Risk Manager...
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Keynsham mosaics display leave ‘something to be desired’.
Anthony Beeson A review now of the display of mosaics that have been incorporated into Keynsham’s new Civic Centre from Bristol-based Anthony Beeson who is an acknowledged Classical iconographer and an...
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Jane Austen’s Bath
Jane Austen’s Bath is the title of a new exhibition which will run at Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Victoria Art Gallery from July 4 – October 4, 2015. Featuring some of the gallery’s best...
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Trust in your volunteers.
Unveiling the upgraded sign post. Click on images to enlarge A sunny celebration in Bath (on Friday, June 5th) on a tiny patch of land where the River Avon meets the Widcombe end of the Kennet and Avon...
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Put on your walking boots for the Abbey’s Footprint Project.
Bath Abbey is issuing a call for people to put their best feet forward to raise funds for the Footprint project – a development programme to repair the Abbey’s collapsing floor, install an eco-friendly...
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Party at the Pools
in Bath, the Cleveland Pools Trust has organised a day of celebrations to mark the bicentenary of Britain’s oldest surviving Georgian outdoor swimming pool. It’s a real Fourth of July get-together...
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A peep inside the Gainsborough’s front door!
Just popped into see the very helpful front-of-house staff at Bath’s newest five-star luxury hotel The Gainsborough. The Gainsborough Hotel It’s the latest incarnation for a building that started life...
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New eye on Bath
Backs of Georgian houses. © Tony McNicol The city of Bath is a major tourist magnet – drawing in around four and a half million visitors each year and – as a member of the Mayor of Bath’s Corps of...
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Late night opening at Bath’s Fashion Museum
Visitors to Bath’s Fashion Museum will have extra time to browse the world-class displays this summer, as the museum will be open until 6pm every Thursday in August, with last exit at 7pm. Fashion...
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Letting light into Sydney Gardens
The canal has been given a more ‘open’ feel. Click on images to enlarge. Plenty of evidence in Bath’s historic Sydney Gardens of a new policy to open up areas of the parkland and reduce some of the...
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Bath Abbey Bake attracts record crowd.
Plenty of customers for the Bath Abbey Bake sale. Click on images to enlarge. Bath Abbey held another Great Bath Bake Sale on Saturday to raise over £2,000 for the church and other charities – and to...
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Wake up to water!
The Greek inscription you can see just below the pediment on the Pump Room facade. You would think that a city whose fortunes have revolved around its springs and water courses would be doing more to...
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Water is Best.
‘Water is Best’ – in Ancient Greek. Click on images to enlarge. We’ve been talking about Bath making more of its natural water heritage. Celebrating cold springs – and the meandering River Avon – as...
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Help shape our housing & transport future.
People in the West of England are being urged to take the opportunity to shape the area’s housing and transport provision for the next 20 years by participating in a major consultation that starts next...
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Bath’s 2017 is going to be Crescent shaped.
On May 19th, 1767 the foundation stone was laid for the construction of what many would now consider to be Bath’s most iconic Georgian building. So 2017 has a 250th anniversary to celebrate and –...
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