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 […]
Talking history!
Every museum needs volunteers but at the American Museum in Britain, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2011, it is the visitors’ encounters with these unsung heroes that literally bring the rooms to life. It was the intention of […]
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’ – […]
Moore for Bath
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 & […]
Goodbye to the old ‘Destructor’ and hello to a new Victoria Bridge.
Bath’s old Destructor Bridge – which links the Upper and Lower Bristol roads into the city – is due to close for demolition, as part of the Western Riverside. It is going to be replaced […]
Nothing to look up to?
What is it about Bath and public statues? Pop down the road to Bristol and have a quick look around College Green and the centre by the Bristol Hippodrome. Take a stroll around Queens Square […]
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 […]
New town development to include mini-museum?
Another B&NES councillor from Keynsham has commented on the need for the town to have some form of museum to display its historic past. Cllr Charles Gerrish- a Conservative member for Keynsham North – told […]
New lamps for old?
The Virtual Museum has already revealed how B&NES is consulting local residents associations and heritage groups to draw up guidelines ‘on what any replacement street lights should look like and the levels of light produced […]
Bringing our past to life!
A Keynsham councillor has urged the powers that be to try and find a way of funding a proper archaeological dig on the old Somerdale factory site. It’s where Bristol developers Taylor Wimpey want to […]
