Here’s another story from the past. Today’s Look Back surrounds the redevelopment of the Saw Close -back in 2015 – and the discovery of a former occupation on the site. […]
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Shame about the Saw Close.
Am l alone in being very disappointed by the recently ‘re-imagined’ Saw Close – an historic open space which lies just inside what was the old city wall. As part of a recent redevelopment – […]
Watch your step!
Bath’s Saw Close has a long and not always noble history. It was where timber was sawn up for our city’s Georgian building boom – trees dragged in over ditches with a man up top […]
That’s the Saw Close demolition – now let’s build!
Demolition work on Bath’s Saw Close building site is coming to an end with the actual start of constructing a casino, hotel and restaurants due to get underway at the end of April. The Grade […]
Line of Bath’s Roman wall confirmed.
As a member of the Mayor of Bath’s Guild of Honorary Guides, l have been telling groups of tourists for several years that the old city wall ran up through the middle of the Saw […]
Bath’s Palace Theatre takes its final bow.
The next major stage in the re-development of the old Palace Theatre site in Bath’s historic Saw Close got underway today – Thursday, February 11th, 2016, with the start of the careful demolition of the […]
Goodbye to the old Saw Close garage.
The Virtual Museum was on hand this morning (Monday, January 18th, 2016) to witness the start of the demolition of the old garage in the Saw Close. The building – which was built as a […]
Into safe keeping
Into safe keeping – as part of the city’s history and heritage. Theatre posters and letters found under the floorboards at the former Palace of Varieties in Bath’s Saw Close are handed over to Colin […]
Norman masonry, gin shaker and putting archaeology to bed.
I was on hand – earlier today (Wednesday, November 25th) – to watch contractors put a little part of Bath’s industrial archaeology to bed. It’s a good way of describing the careful way in which […]
Meet the Archaeologists
Saw Close Open Day, Saturday 31 October 2015, 10am-2pm This month Cotswold Archaeology, in association with Deeley Freed Estates and Sanctus, are offering a unique opportunity for the public to see a different side of […]
