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 […]
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Author: Richard Wyatt
Freelance Journalist, broadcaster and local historian. Director of Bath Newseum - formally known as The Virtual Museum of Bath. Married and lives in Bath.
Interested in local history, architecture and visual display in museums and urban spaces.
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 […]
New Mayor of Bath named.
Combe Down Councillor Gerry Curran has been chosen to be Bath’s next Mayor. He will also serve as Chairman of the Charter Trustees of the City of Bath during the 2019/20 Municipal Year, and has […]
A sneak look at Bath’s big art show!
It’s the biggest event of the year for members of the Bath Society of Artists whose members and their family and friends packed into the Victoria Art Gallery tonight on Friday for this year’s annual […]
Plant power.
Bath’s floral reputation – it’s one many an award for its displays – is all down to the hard work of the Council’s Parks and Green Spaces Department who grow their plants at nurseries […]
Top honours for Herschel Museum.
It might not be the biggest museum in the country but Bath’s Herschel Museum of Astronomy can still punch above its weight when it comes to seeing off the competition and winning a prize. It’s […]
A Bath ‘treasure’ still to be fully revealed.
Why is it – when l step down the basement stairs at the Assembly Rooms – l always get a sense of what Aladdin or Howard Carter must have felt when – in their darkness […]
United in song.
One of Bath’s oldest choral groups – The Silver Ring Choir – has just come back from representing the city at the annual Festivale De Musique held in Bath’s twin city Aix en Provence in […]
Bath to lead way on later-living scheme.
With more than 12 million over-65s in the UK – and figures due to increase by 50 per cent over the next 20 years – Bath could be leading the way in championing ‘ an […]
Abbey’s east end re-appears.
Good to see that the protective screening at the east end of Bath Abbey has come down as the work to replace all the ledger stones in that area nears completion. I understand the Rector […]
