Signs banning coaches from the Circus are finally going up today. My thanks to Richard Brown who is Vice Chair of the Circus Area Residents Association for the images. He tells Bath Newseum: “So far […]
Tag: The Circus
Circus coach ban at last!
After years and years of campaigning the residents of Bath’s iconic Circus have finally got their coach ban – albeit an experimental one. From next Thursday, May 2nd, B&NES will introduce an order prohibiting buses […]
We want to see Wood in the trees!
John Wood the Elder didn’t live to see his unique ‘Circus’ completed. He died in 1754 shortly after witnessing the laying of the foundation stone of the first of three blocks of a total of […]
History – in the round.
There have been many artists – over the years – who have been inspired by ‘The Circus’ here in Bath. John Wood the Elder’s Georgian urban masterpiece and the country’s first giant roundabout. However, it […]
Haircut 200
My thanks to Jenny Noad for these pictures – taken in The Circus yesterday. Jenny writes: “Interesting to see that beautiful, infamous Plane trees in the Circus are having their health check-up. Thankfully, they are […]
Oh what a Circus!
The things you see when out on your weekly Mayor’s guiding duties. I am a member of the Mayor of Bath’s Corps of Honorary Guides. A group of nearly one hundred volunteers who show visitors […]
A new look to Gravel Walk!
What a difference a week makes. Seems efforts by The Circus Area Residents Association, local Councillor Andrew Furse and B&NES has finally dealt with the issue of an ever increasing number of cars and vans […]
Oh what a Circus!
It’s NOT an April Fool’s Day joke – hundreds of protestors will be taking to the streets of Bath today – Saturday – on an April 1st march to demand B&NES council leaders meet them […]
No 4
Bath has hidden historic gems – as well as its big architectural set pieces. One of them is the restored Georgian Garden behind number 4, the Circus. Between 1985 and 1988 the overgrown and inaccessible […]
Pedal power
Great to know the Tour of Britain cycle race is passing through Bath in September and it solves the mystery – l am led to believe – of why there are individual bikes hanging on […]
