Jane Austen’s Bath is the title of a new exhibition which will run at Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Victoria Art Gallery from July 4 – October 4, 2015. Featuring some of the gallery’s […]
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Bath heritage goes Google!
It was nice to see that a huge international corporation like Google still felt the need to call on a bit of local help in setting up a new smartphone app to help people enjoy the […]
First ‘green’ Western
‘We’re about to put Brunel back into his railway’ said the man from First Great Western when we started chatting about his company’s future plans for the historic 175 year old rail route that passes […]
Fund raising dip into bathing history.
Bath Spa University students and other ‘brave’ supporters of the Cleveland Pools Project took part in a fashion show with a difference at Bath’s Green Park Station on Saturday evening – May 9th. Called ‘200 Years of […]
Pavement history
One of Bath’s most historic thoroughfares has been included in a study which has identified the fifty greatest streets in Britain and Ireland. From the thousands criss-crossing these islands historian and author Melanie Backe-Hansen has […]
‘B.C.’ was here!
The Virtual Museum bicycle had been dropped off at Take Charge Bikes on Bathwick Hill for essential brake repairs – leaving your Director free to wander for an hour with a camera. As one who […]
Blooming weather
If two days of solid rain wasn’t enough – the sight of some of Bath‘s floral display holders, now bare of flower baskets, was enough of a reminder that we are tumbling through a so-far […]
Civic honours for Bath rail writer
A successful local author has unveiled his 96th book with a launch event at Radstock Museum supported by the Chairman of Bath & North East Somerset Council. Around 60 rail enthusiasts joined Bath-based Colin Maggs MBE […]
Reflecting on its future?
The image is of Britain’s first open-air lido and a Georgian one to boot! It’s Cleveland Pools – opened in Bath in 1815 – within a city famous for all its waters. Will this particular […]
