Exciting plans to rejuvenate the town centre of Radstock with new homes, retail space, and restoration of the Brunel rail shed have been submitted to Bath & North East Somerset Council by Norton Radstock Regeneration Company. […]
Month: June 2013
Thanks a million (and more)
A steel drum band from King Edward’s School and a lady and gentleman in period costume were there to welcome guests onto the Royal Crescent lawn last night where the Bath Preservation Trust had organised […]
Loos get temporary relief!
Public toilets in Weston village and at Larkhall in Bath have won a stay of execution after Bath and North East Somerset Council confirmed that plans to close them would now be put back to […]
Civic honours for Bath rail writer
A successful local author has unveiled his 96th book with a launch event at Radstock Museum supported by the Chairman of Bath & North East Somerset Council. Around 60 rail enthusiasts joined Bath-based Colin Maggs MBE […]
Snap up some Euros!
Do you have an eye for a good picture and a good knowledge of Bath? Bath & North East Somerset Council belongs to a network called the Organisation of World Heritage Cities (OWHC). The OWHC […]
A touch of glass.
Popped into the Guildhall yesterday to check out the fireplaces in the banqueting room. Dan Brown of http://www.bathintime.co.uk suggested l take a look after l had commented upon the local industrial name of Stothert being stamped […]
Bath to join spa ‘super-league?’
Twenty six years ago Bath won international recognition for itself by successfully bidding to be classified as a World Heritage site. The accolade from UNESCO applauded its archaeology, Georgian architecture, social history, town planning and […]
Bed-time in Bath
Bath Parks Department gardeners have been putting the finishing touches to floral displays around the city in time for high summer and – hopefully – high numbers of tourists! It’s judgement time coming up soon […]
‘Raiding’ the Green Belt.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of ‘The Sack of Bath‘ – a fierce and angry polemic – written by Times journalist Adam Ferguson and following on from an article he had […]
Walk into history
A fund-raising walk around the site of one of the hardest fought battles of the English Civil War is planned for Sunday, July 7th. It includes access to areas not normally accessible to the […]
