Biography in Cloth

In Milsom Place this morning for breakfast at Cote Brasserie and noticed banner flags fluttering outside an empty shop unit. Turns … More

Bridge lodges still at risk says councillor.

Following expensive repairs to one of the Cleveland Bridge lodges – and much traffic disruption while restoration work was carried … More

Bath MP wants more radical solution to transport and pollution woes.

Bath MP Wera Hobhouse took her ‘surgery session’ out on the streets of the city today in an effort to … More

London Road latest.

The very latest on those expensive ‘designed-to-rust’ planters on the London Road. After all the fuss about a three-year-old audit – … More

Blooming lovely – but no bridge?

Good to see a mass of bright red poppies and blue cornflowers blooming on part of the reshaped riverbank opposite … More

That’s much better!

It’s good to report the telephone box at the bottom of Gravel Walk has been put back together again. I presume … More

Haircut 200

My thanks to Jenny Noad for these pictures – taken in The Circus yesterday. Jenny writes: “Interesting to see that … More

Step in the right direction

Well, the good news coming out of the newly-restyled Saw Close is that those new and ‘dangerous’ steps now bear … More

Museum of Bath Architecture announces photo competition.

Architectural Photographer of the Year 2018 Architecture is all around us; virtually everywhere we go there is some kind of … More

Now it begins.

  Posts are being installed outside the eastern end of Bath Abbey to support hoarding – that could be there … More

A bridge with history.

Four years ago contractors began dismantling the old Destructor Bridge across the River Avon. It would be making way for … More

Bath​ takes top honours

Seems when it comes to young entrepreneurs – people prepared to take financial risks in the hope of setting up … More

Unwelcome shower

Bath’s urban gull population comes in for criticism this sunny weekend. Eddy Priest writes: “Hi Richard. Any chance you could … More

Colour sensation

Bath’s parks are at that changeover stage. The last of the spring flowering is fading and it will soon be … More

Shiver me timber

More on that renovated balcony at Fitzroy House in Great Pulteney Street where 28 luxury flats are being created from … More

It’s your heritage.

Bath & North East Somerset Council is asking local people for their views on its plans to ensure that buildings, … More

Let a blacksmith be your guide.

OK, so Bath’s famous for Roman remains and Georgian architecture but this Saturday you get a chance to explore another … More

Bath presence on the Thames.

Cranes made by Stothert and Pitt of Bath turn up in places all around the globe. Bath Newseum follower, Neil … More

Not any old hanging basket!

He’s abseiled down the rock face of both Bristol’s Avon Gorge and Cheddar Gorge but today, climber Alex Matheson was easing … More

A spot of guerilla gardening.

Walcot councillor Richard Samuel joined members of the London Road and Snow Hill Partnership in doing some weeding beside this … More

Peasedown’s Karen takes the Chair.

Councillor Karen Walker is the new Chair of Bath & North East Somerset Council. She has spent the last year … More

Wera takes her ‘desk’ out to Twerton.

You have to hand it to Bath’s MP Wera Hobhouse. She’s come up with a new way of meeting the … More

All will be revealed.

Prepare for the east end of Bath Abbey to disappear behind hoarding in about six weeks or so as building … More

Spring is in the fayre.

Out early enough to join the queue waiting to experience the opening of the Spring Fayre B&NES has organised this … More

Lord Adonis in Bath.

Lord Andrew Adonis – one of the sharpest critics of Brexit – was in the city today where he was … More