John Rennie was a Scottish civil engineer – a young East Lothian farmer’s son – and born in 1761. He made his name designing many bridges, canals and docks. South of the border he will always […]
Tag: Bath Somerset
A penny for your thoughts?
B&NES has big plans for making historic Sydney Gardens more ’21st century’ friendly. That’s if the council is successful in attracting Heritage Lottery funding to pay for a sensitive make-over that acknowledges the past as […]
Brush up on industry
Yesterday – Saturday, September 24th – l popped along to the seventh Industrial Heritage Exhibition – held at Bath City Football Club in Twerton – and designed to make people aware that this was very […]
Consultation favours skateboard facility for Alice Park.
A park and ride site east of Bath isn’t the only facility being pushed for at this end of the city. A committee meeting at the Guildhall today ( Monday, August 22nd) will receive the […]
Majority back new West of England Mayor-led Authority
The people of B&NES seem to have given their support to the idea of a Mayor-led West of England Authority according to the majority of responses received by the council. Residents have had the opportunity […]
Maintaining council standards – Can you help?
Bath & North East Somerset Council is looking to recruit two independent local volunteers to help promote and maintain high standards of conduct by councillors and co-opted members. This is an important role for volunteers […]
Stubbs and the Wild
It’s no good – the temptation to use the expression ‘roaring success’ to describe the Holburne Museum’s new summer/autumn exhibition is too great a one to resist. The fact there’s a lion on the banners […]
It’s been repaired, but who saw the fountain damaged?
At last!! I passed by the Laura Place Fountain today and found local stonemason Nick Shinn hard at work preparing to lay newly carved stone on this damaged and neglected structure. Nick told me the […]
A crane escort for last of the Sparrow brothers.
The funeral cortege of Bath businessman and last-surviving Sparrow brother, Gordon Sparrow, makes its way to Haycombe Cemetery, Bath today (June 22nd), with a mobile crane escort to celebrate the life of one of the […]
Roman Baths spread the word.
Following an increase in international visitors in the past few years, the Roman Baths and Fashion Museum have introduced audio guides in four new languages: Dutch, Korean, Polish and Portuguese. This brings the total […]
