A quick look around Bath. Well done to the Genesis Trust and their volunteers for the makeover of the artist-designed metal troughs on the London Road. Sensible planting and you can now read the messages […]
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Month: May 2019
A glimmer of hope for Children’s Centre.
There’s hope on the horizon for the previously doomed Parkside Children’s Centre – a building – now surrounded by the Charlotte Street car park – and originally constructed as a British Restaurant during World War […]
We care too – says Council leader.
More affordable housing and cleaner streets – just two of the pledges made to Bath Newseum today when l got to meet – and chat to – the leader of the Lib Dem administration which […]
What a difference a day makes!
Yesterday – down at Riverside’s new Elizabeth Park – the not so pretty sight of dead trees in the middle of a grassy-green sward which was being mown. Today – the withered branches are […]
Subtle – it isn’t!
If you haven’t visited Bath’s Holburne Museum for some time – the new coat of paint in the entrance corridor isn’t the only thing you’ll notice that has changed. Director, Dr Chris Stephens has put […]
Conversations with a cushion.
I won’t forget my first ever visit to an annual general meeting of Bath and North East Somerset Council. I had the surreal experience – last night – of watching grown men and women bicker […]
New cabinet post created to tackle ‘climate emergency.’
A new dedicated cabinet role to tackle ‘climate emergency’ has been created in the list -released today – of the new leader and nine cabinet members, who will steer the first majority-led Liberal Democrat council […]
Relief for coach park loos.
Bath’s coach park loos have reopened today – thanks to pressure on B&NES and with the help of Bath BID. B&NES closed them because they said they were too expensive to renovate – and that […]
All change in Walcot Street.
So it goes like this. Farpoint has closed in Walcot Street. Its computer and sound system location just happened to be surrounded by a bigger business – Walcot House – which occupies the rest of […]
Coach ban signs go up.
Signs banning coaches from the Circus are finally going up today. My thanks to Richard Brown who is Vice Chair of the Circus Area Residents Association for the images. He tells Bath Newseum: “So far […]
