Looking for advice on starting your family history? You will be able to ask staff from the Bath Record Office and Bristol & Avon Family History Society who will be on hand to help at […]
Month: January 2020
Help us turn a dream into reality
Volunteers and supporters of the Cleveland Pools project were given an update this week on the latest developments around the planned restoration of this remarkable Grade 11* listed pool – the UK’s only surviving Georgian […]
Getting Bath back in the grooves.
With a Clean Air Zone coming into force – and much talk about schemes to restrict through traffic in residential areas – there’s a local pressure group pushing now for the return of a more environmentally […]
Plans submitted for Homebase site.
Guild Living -Legal & General’s urban retirement housing business – has now lodged plans to redevelop the Homebase site in Bath city centre. They say they want to create a new type of retirement living […]
What’s up?
Just in case you are wondering why scaffolding is going up at Bath’s Guildhall, a press spokesperson told me: ‘We’re repainting windows. The work should be done by the end of March.’
The low down on traffic.
Did B&NES councillors get a sombre vision of a nightmare future at last night’s crowded public meeting in Bath where locals had gathered to hear more about introducing low traffic neighbourhoods? Will they – in […]
Queen Square closure.
Now all that excavation activity – that has been on-going in Queen Square – becomes clear! It’s preparatory work for two sets of new traffic lights to improve pedestrian and cycle safety as part of […]
Spoken from the heart.
More than 42,000 people – under 75 – died from heart and circulatory diseases in the UK in 2017. It’s the latest figures l could find and they show a rise in numbers for the […]
Get in lane
I am a great supporter of the medieval-sized lanes behind the High Street in the centre of Bath, and have always been keen to support the idea of promoting them in some way to shoppers […]
Shut that door!
Shut that door! As the late-lamented comedian, Larry Grayson used to say. This time around it’s shops and businesses in Bath being asked to do just that – as part of a new drive to […]
