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 […]
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Leave our fountain alone.
As l had assumed, the fountain in Laura Place has been turned off while engineers try to deal with the latest foam attack on this – the only real celebration of Bath’s waters in this […]
What’s that in your window?
This year’s Bath Festival – a celebration of music and literature featuring more than 120 events over ten days – gets underway on Friday, May 17th with Party in the City. It’s a popular opener […]
Clean sheet for laundry.
It might just be a building housing the city laundry, but that didn’t prevent the craftsmen who erected this 19th century utility in York Street from decking it out with some of the best ornamentation […]
Petals on parade
City retailers are joining Bath BID in funding more than two hundred hanging baskets which will now be put up across the city – using water-saving containers. They’ve been created using plants grown in greenhouses […]
Urban spaces
I spend a lot of time in Bath’s urban spaces and – unfortunately – am often critical of their upkeep or layout. I have to praise the early stages of humanising the Southgate Shopping area […]
Not good enough Bath.
This is a picture – l am afraid – that says it all about Bath at the moment. It cannot go on trading on its Roman remains and Georgian architecture – and social history – […]
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 […]
Clean up for York Street arch.
Members of the public will have a chance to see building conservation in action in May, as conservators clean and repair the decorative arch over York Street in Bath, which runs beside the Roman Baths. […]
Another bath comes clean.
A little bit more of the city’s ‘Imperial’ history is coming to light as archaeologists have begun re-excavating a hidden Roman bath at the Roman Baths. The bath was first discovered 130 years ago, but […]
