Managed to get my hands on a clip from a Carlton Television series l presented nearly twenty years ago on the architectural history of Bath and called Set in Stone. It was produced and directed […]
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Category: The Gallery
Moore art.
A touring exhibition of Henry Moore’s inspirational work from the Arts Council Collection will make its only stop in the West of England at Bath’s Victoria Art Gallery, from 13 April to 23 June 2013. […]
Case 7, the British Museum and Bath’s Beau Street Hoard.
You cannot get a current ticket for the British Museum‘s blockbuster exhibition on Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum for love or money but that did not stop me threading my way through the […]
Orpheus – the full story!
Elsewhere within the Virtual Museum is a lengthy piece about Keynsham and its Roman past. I mentioned a wonderful mosaic ‘pavement’ discovered at Newton St Loe during the construction of Brunel’s Great Western Railway. After […]
Table top talent!
My partner’s party trick of creating a trussed oven-ready chicken out of a folded napkin must pale into insignificance compared with the rather unique exhibition currently entertaining and amazing visitors to the Holburne Museum in […]
Hidden doors, street art and a ‘king’ gets his sign back!
I often cycle in from Larkhall along the Kennet and Avon Canal and down into the city through Sydney Gardens. I had pedaled past two clumps of bushes – across the road from the entrance […]
Wasn’t it grand!
Who amongst our Bath and district readers remembers the department store called Colmer’s which graced Union Street for over a hundred years! My thanks to Mr John Sartain for coming across ‘The Colmers Story’ – […]
Amongst our chandeliers.
I wonder how many people know how a faulty chandelier in a Bath ballroom came close to ending the career of one of Britain’s greatest artists? The ballroom in question is set within the Assembly […]
Count on us!
The process by which Bath hopes to acquire the huge hoard of Roman silver coins discovered on a city-centre building site moves a step closer today with an announcement from the British Museum that the […]
Not sure if it’s still ‘toodle loo?’
It’s council budget setting time and, whereas North Somerset is announcing an increase in council tax, B&NES has managed to freeze the ratepayer’s contribution, protect services to the public and continue to invest in […]
