Just a quick reminder that this week is Heritage Open Week and the Mayor’s Parlour at the Guildhall on Bath’s High Street is open to the public between 11am and 4pm. There’s no charge and […]
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Month: October 2013
Road tax for cyclists?
Good to know that work by Bath & North East Somerset Council on a new route to improve access from Bathampton and Batheaston to Bath city centre for walkers and people who ride bicycles has […]
If l could turn back time
Waiting for a number 7 bus – and counting the machine-gun repetitiveness of the number 18’s as they follow each other through town – l happened to hear the Abbey clock bell strike two at […]
Keynsham mosaics on the move.
The Keynsham Millennium Mosaics have been relocated and renovated following an agreement between Bath & North East Somerset Council and Keynsham Town Council. The mosaics were created by a community group at the turn […]
Elementary my dear Mr Crest!
Down on what was the industrialised western bank of the River Avon – as it slipped out of Georgian Bath on its way to Bristol and the sea – the biggest residential redevelopment since the […]
Bath ashamed of its past?
Bath gets taken to task for being ashamed of its industrial past in a letter from B&NES Heritage Champion Cllr Bryan Chalker published in today’s Bath Chronicle. Cllr Chalker says, while he is enthusiastic about […]
I never knew that!
Local communities were today invited to find out more about the local area with a new online service run by Bath & North East Somerset Council. Thousands of stats are available at the click of […]
A man of letters!
A perfect day for painting and thankfully no wind to knock the arm of Mark Holland as he carefully fills in the incised letters originally cut by the Georgian builders of Sydney Place. It is […]
The art of saying ‘I do!’
Couples can now have a picture perfect wedding at Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Victoria Art Gallery. The Gallery, near Pulteney Bridge in Bath, has been granted a licence to host weddings and civil partnership […]
The ‘Lido lads’
A unique riverside ‘chunk’ of Bath’s historic past is currently doing its bit to help two local schoolboys with their immediate futures! As part of the city’s Open Heritage Week – which runs during the […]
