Bath-based Hawker Joinery – one of the best-known heritage businesses in the country – will be celebrating its centenary in grand style this Friday. Hawker Joinery will be marking 100 years of making bespoke joinery with […]
Tag: Batheaston
Help save a ‘suffragette tree’
Came across a woman yesterday – tying coloured ribbons to the Guildhall railings in Bath. I recognised the colours – green, white and purple – as belonging to the Women’s Social and Political Union – […]
Letting history take root.
Bath is a city of trees and this is certainly the time of year to view them at their best. However, while London Planes may tower above The Circus, there are three much more humbles […]
Pavement protest by Bath pro-Europe group.
A pavement protest outside Bath’s Bailbrook House Hotel greeted the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd MP, when she arrived to speak at a local conservatives dinner at the Batheaston-based venue. It was organised by members of […]
Ben urges B&NES to sort out the traffic.
Bath’s city roads are now operating at maximum capacity – says the city’s MP Ben Howlett – and that means any accident or obstruction within the system is causing chaos. He’s jumped into the traffic […]
One bit of welcome ‘ribbon development’
The Vice-Chairman of Bath & North East Somerset Council – Cllr Ian Gilchrist – cut the ribbon to officially open a new £890,000 footbridge and cycleway across the River Avon at Batheaston village on Tuesday, […]
New Batheaston cycle route now open!
The new Batheaston cycle path finally opened this week after work on its construction was delayed by bad weather. The new route – links with the Kennet and Avon canal towpath into Bath – and also […]
Batheaston cycleway link to Bathampton to open late May?
For all those followers of The Virtual Museum of Bath who have been asking if l know when the new cycleway link between Bathampton and Batheaston is due to open l can tell you that […]
Honouring the suffragettes
I have been for a walk in Royal Victoria Park with a woman well-known for her love of Bath and its history and heritage. Audrey Woods is happy to share her enthusiasm too – and […]
Get on the right track.
Followers of the Virtual Museum of Bath will know how keen l am on doing some re-surfacing on an alternative cycle route into the city centre. It is one used by pedestrians and cyclists and […]
