It’s not only the fate of the old King Edward’s School in Broad Street that raises comments from my blog followers.
Nick Sommer writes: ‘I’m attaching a couple of photos of what looks like a very neglected Cleveland Place Dispensary. Similar to KES in town. Do you know anything about it?
There’s a substantial young Sycamore tree now firmly rooted at the base of the building – not good!’
Does anyone have an update on that building? It’s in Cleveland Place East and close to Cleveland Bridge. I understand it was built in 1845 by a charitable institution where medical advice was given and medicines dispensed.
Onto something completely different.
David Stubbs writes:
‘I saw this in Lambeth and thought, why not in Bath?
What a quick and simple way to provide on-street EV charging without needing more ugly on-street equipment?
I have a feeling BANES rejected doing it, but I may be wrong.’
My son lives in London. He has all electric car and use the lampposts all the time. It’s generally a bit more expensive than supermarket but worth it.
I understand that it closed as a dispensary at the start of the NHS in 1948. The building (no doubt owned by Bath City Council) has since been used for a number of commercial ventures, including an art gallery. Could it still be Rooke Books, I wonder?
https://www.rookebooks.com/about-us