Four years ago contractors began dismantling the old Destructor Bridge across the River Avon. It would be making way for a new – coathanger-styled – connecting bridge to allow traffic in and out of the […]
Month: May 2018
Bath takes top honours
Seems when it comes to young entrepreneurs – people prepared to take financial risks in the hope of setting up a successful business – the University of Bath takes top honours. According to Wealth Manager […]
Unwelcome shower
Bath’s urban gull population comes in for criticism this sunny weekend. Eddy Priest writes: “Hi Richard. Any chance you could do an article on the filthy mess in our city caused by the pesky sea […]
Colour sensation
Bath’s parks are at that changeover stage. The last of the spring flowering is fading and it will soon be time to put in the colourful summer beds. While you’re waiting to appreciate that riot of […]
Shiver me timber
More on that renovated balcony at Fitzroy House in Great Pulteney Street where 28 luxury flats are being created from five Grade 1 listed townhouses. Bath Newseum follower Jim Canham noticed that the main balcony […]
It’s your heritage.
Bath & North East Somerset Council is asking local people for their views on its plans to ensure that buildings, structures, monuments and other features which are not statutory listed, but considered locally important heritage, […]
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 part of the city’s heritage – its magnificent historic ironwork. Niki Jewett emailed me to remind […]
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 Garrett chanced upon a pair in London a few years ago. “I now live in […]
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 his way down the heady heights of a living vine inside one of Bath’s most unusual […]
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 busy thoroughfare into Bath. They were concentrating their efforts on three of the metal planters […]
