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Could ‘Roman’ Bath have a nearby rival?

  Here’s another favourite story of mine – this time from March, 2013. I am still hoping that enough interest … More

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Buddleia versus Brunel.

Elsewhere on Bath Newseum l have drawn attention to the state of the stone balustrade on the Grand Parade side … More

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Rail reconstruction gets underway through Bath in 2017.

A new word has entered our local vocabulary in the last couple of years. It’s ‘t-pod’ and it is a … More

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Losing steam?

Things are getting a little behind as far as the electrification of the Great Western main rail line to London … More

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Digging gets underway in Sydney Gardens

With the electrification of the Great Western Line from London to Bristol and beyond underway – and likely to affect … More

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It’s electrifying – but gently does it!

Well there is real hope now that Network Rail will be proceeding as gently as possible when its electrification construction … More

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Art and the rail engineer

Brunel’s Great Western Railway certainly opened up Bath in terms of transport and trade but this engineering marvel came in … More

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Lights and locomotives in Sydney Gardens

The Virtual Museum of Bath hears Sydney Gardens might be getting public lighting at last. Looks like they will be … More

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Bath mosaic gets Bristol showing

Just for a change l am about to promote an event at a museum which is not within Bath and … More

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Victorian take on Shakespeare’s ‘Dream’

On National Museum Night May 18 the Museum of Bath at Work is staging excerpts from a performance of A … More

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Bikes, bus-shelters and Brunel.

Great to see all the work coming to an end around the Guildhall where extended paving and a new crossing … More

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Georgian Spring.

Good to see Spring finally putting in an appearance in front of the Georgian splendour of John Wood’s South Parade … More

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Paving stones, war booty and sketches of Bath.

Sunday lunchtime finds me at the top of Cheap Street admiring the paving being laid as part of the road … More

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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 … More

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