The annual Larkhall Festival came and went last week-end. Yours Truly enjoyed his two minutes in the spotlight cutting the ribbon outside the New Oriel Hall to officially open the seventh annual community event. A […]
Month: April 2015
New trees amongst the Bath traffic!
Many of the trees to fill the ten decorated steel tree planters – commissioned to line part of one of the city’s busiest traffic routes – have arrived on the London Road. Bath-based artist Jane […]
U3A Beau Street Hoard project on display
The University of the Third Age (U3A) is putting its work on the Beau Street Hoard on display in Bath Central Library from May 5 – 9. Volunteers from U3A groups from Norton Radstock and […]
Hat trick for Roman Baths
Bath & North East Somerset Council-run Roman Baths have received an Award of Excellence based on visitors’ ratings for the third consecutive year. The Award was made by Irish bus tour operator, CIE Tours International, […]
Fantasy make-over for Queen Square
Bath Landscape architects Grant Associates have designed a ‘Forest of Imagination’ to transform one of the city’s historic public spaces into a temporary fantastical landscape and outdoor gallery for a free-to-enter contemporary arts event this week-end. It will […]
St Michael’s – with scaffolding until September.
More than four months work lies ahead on making repairs to the fabric of St Michael’s Without behind the one hundred feet high scaffolding that now clads the church tower. The Virtual Museum has had […]
The Gainsborough – open for business on July the First.
Well the word on the street is that Bath’s newest five-star hotel is going to open for business on the First of July after a multi-million pound conversion of one of the city’s historic buildings […]
Beau Street Hoard Roadshow comes to rest in Bath
Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Beau Street Hoard Roadshow team is showing off its Roman treasures in Bath as the roadshow finishes off its travels around the region. On Monday 4 May, from 11am […]
In the swim
Swimming costumes from the last 200 years are going to be paraded down a Green Park Station catwalk at a special fund-raising and awareness event being organised by the Cleveland Pools Trust. What better way of celebrating two […]
A brush with history
Cycling home through Sydney Gardens today l came across an artist hard at work on a easel he had set up on the last remaining iron railway pedestrian bridge that Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed […]
