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 – […]
Tag: Palace Theatre
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 […]
Saw Close style.
You can’t see much of Bath’s iconic Empire Hotel (1899-1901 at the moment because the side facing Orange Grove is covered with scaffolding. The five-storeyed, late-Victorian build (there’s a further two storeys in the roof) […]
Saw Close site ready for building to start!
Today the Virtual Museum of Bath was invited into the major building site on the Saw Close where Monday week (April 18th) rigs will arrive to start sinking the piles on which a multi-million pound […]
A little piece of the Palace sees the light.
A little piece of Bath’s theatrical history has come back into the light. From the darkness of a Victorian vaulted cellar to the archaeologists’ table on a building site in the Saw Close. It’s a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Memories of the Palace Theatre.
Virtual Museum coverage of archaeological excavations and chance discoveries in and around the old Palace Theatre site in the Saw Close has brought memories flooding back for follower Sam Farr. This is an area that […]
Palace Theatre gives up some secrets!
One of Bath’s old theatres has been giving up some of its secrets as work gets underway on regenerating part of the city’s historic Saw Close site with the construction of a new casino, hotel and […]
Final calls for Bath bingo hall.
The Gala Bingo hall in Bath’s Sawclose will be shutting up shop in less than a fortnight. It brings to an end the most recent of many transformations for a Grade 11 building that dates […]
