Behind the covered first floor windows of W H Smith’s Union Street shop, contractors are busy getting things ready for a transfer of postal facilities from the city’s main post office. That’s due to close […]
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Just the ticket
The spotlight – in Bath – is very much on England’s maritime hero Admiral Lord Nelson at the moment with a free-to-enter exhibition in Queen Square which features a very unusual link with the man […]
Oh Peroni!
First – the good news. The Council’s Parks Department and Bath BID have come together to help brighten up our streets this summer – for locals and tourists alike. Caught a couple of floral displays […]
The fame game.
Bryan Chalker is an ex B&NES councillor – and former Mayor of Bath – who is now getting used to the sound of silence. Let me explain. He has had a ‘bee in his bonnet’ […]
Highway horrors
Fed up with Bath’s pot holes, paving stone trip-hazards and lack of anywhere to leave your bike? Then keep your fingers crossed you are one of the three thousand odd locals who will be given […]
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 from the artist who has already given the city the ‘Herschel Chairs.’ Patrick Haines likes […]
Roman summer
Visitors to the Roman Baths will get more time to soak up the special torch-lit atmosphere of the Great Bath this summer as opening hours are extended. They will stay open until 10pm (last admission […]
Those wartime years remembered.
Sixty outstanding artworks from the 1940s – including some wartime images of Bath – will be showcased in a new Summer exhibition next month at the Victoria Art Gallery. War and Rumours of War: 1940s […]
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 Sunday 8th September on the River Avon at Bath Riverside. Since its inception in 2016 […]
Bath’s new Mayor elected.
Bathonians got a chance to experience an annual display of civic pride today – Saturday, June 1st, – with the election of the new Mayor in Bath Abbey where Councillor Gerry Curran took office as […]
