Making Bath the UK’s most walkable city is just one of the aims set out in the Getting Around Bath Transport Strategy which was formally launched by Bath & North East Somerset Council today (Wednesday […]
Month: April 2014
Work starts at Somerdale
The first sod has been cut to mark the beginning of works at leading homebuilder Taylor Wimpey’s forthcoming Somerdale development in Keynsham, paving the way for the first new homes to be released for sale […]
Current in the past
Elsewhere in this cyber museum you will find stories about Bath’s River Regeneration Trust and plans for harnessing the flow of the Avon at Pulteney Weir to generate electricity. It’s seen as a great idea for […]
Not worth it’s metal
The Building of Bath Museum seems to have got slightly more than it bargained for when it asked the local authority if it could have some of the directional ‘fingers’ – relating to itself […]
Bath students help with London’s history
Researchers at Bath Spa University have created a new interactive app that explores the historic origins of London’s streets. ‘London Streets’ is an immersive and interactive iOS and Android app that takes users on a […]
Give me shelter!
Well the new paved pedestrian area around the north side of the Abbey and on the High Street is not looking as empty and desolate as it did when first laid out. After the installation […]
Digging gets underway in Sydney Gardens
With the electrification of the Great Western Line from London to Bristol and beyond underway – and likely to affect Bath in the summer of 2016 – Network Rail have moved into Sydney Gardens to […]
When cabbages flourished in the Royal Crescent
English Heritage is publishing a book of aerial photographs of Britain in the 20th century which shows the changing social, industrial and architectural face of this nation over the years. The collection of photos – […]
Rent-a-bike still on track – despite slight delay.
Last year visitors to Bath were able to rent-a-bike from stands established around the city – including this one (pictured below) next to the Holburne Museum. The company operating the system has changed and notices […]
Humanising Southgate.
The ‘new’ classically enhanced shopping complex at Southgate might have made a commercial ‘nod’ in the direction of Bath’s Georgian past but nowhere was it part of the planning brief – it would seem – […]
