Another record year for the city’s world-famous Roman Baths with 1,202,491 visitors generating £23.3 million income and a surplus profit … More
Category: Heritage & History
We won’t sell the ‘family silver’ says councillor.
Bath’s world famous Fashion Museum could well be homeless in a couple of years but any thought of parting with … More
All change at Bath Abbey.
It wasn’t only Pentecost being celebrated by the congregation at Bath Abbey at the weekend but the fact that … More
Oh Peroni!
First – the good news. The Council’s Parks Department and Bath BID have come together to help brighten up our … More
The fame game.
Bryan Chalker is an ex B&NES councillor – and former Mayor of Bath – who is now getting used to … More
An artful way of telling Bath’s history.
We’re just weeks away from the official unveiling – in Bath – of a new piece of public sculpture … More
Roman summer
Visitors to the Roman Baths will get more time to soak up the special torch-lit atmosphere of the Great Bath … More
Bath’s dragon boat race is on again for this year!
Something for your autumn diary. It’s been announced that the third annual Bath Dragon Boat Race will take place on … More
Bath’s new Mayor elected.
Bathonians got a chance to experience an annual display of civic pride today – Saturday, June 1st, – with the … More
They’re special AND free!
Want to know more about Thomas Gainsborough’s time in Bath? The Beadeker wartime raids or how the city helped shape … More
Sunday in the park
I had a brief moment of being proud to be born in this country last night. I wasn’t dancing to … More
Summer in the city
A quick look around Bath. Well done to the Genesis Trust and their volunteers for the makeover of the artist-designed … More
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 … More
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 … More
Leave our fountain alone.
As l had assumed, the fountain in Laura Place has been turned off while engineers try to deal with the … More
Clean sheet for laundry.
It might just be a building housing the city laundry, but that didn’t prevent the craftsmen who erected this 19th … More
Not good enough Bath.
This is a picture – l am afraid – that says it all about Bath at the moment. It cannot … More
Walking into history.
Found myself at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution yesterday to talk to the first group of people who … More