Want to know more about Thomas Gainsborough’s time in Bath? The Beadeker wartime raids or how the city helped shape the postal service? These are just some of the subjects covered in a special series […]
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Relief for coach park loos.
Bath’s coach park loos have reopened today – thanks to pressure on B&NES and with the help of Bath BID. B&NES closed them because they said they were too expensive to renovate – and that […]
Coach ban signs go up.
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 […]
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 […]
Wyatt’s walks
Had to smile while walking near Bath Spa rail station where, in Brunel Square, workmen are installing something in the middle of the paving. It is fenced off for safety reasons but it was a […]
What are we waiting for?
Well there must be plenty of ways to travel to Bath’s annual Christmas Market but arriving from London in a rail carriage pulled by a 1940’s steam locomotive has got to be an exciting and […]
Historic canal under attack.
Always the same isn’t it? The week a vital member of staff takes a holiday, his services are suddenly urgently needed! Bit of a shock greeting narrow boat crews and towpath users on the K […]
Blue Guide seeing red!
I am happy to give space to a lady who works in the local tourist industry and is passionate in her belief that day visitors to Bath are increasingly being short-changed. Monika Cavaciuti is a […]
B&NES to get tough on ‘idling’ coach drivers.
One woman’s campaign to improve the air quality around her city home seems to be getting noticed in the right places. Patsey Keen lives in a flat close to the Riverside Coach Park where many […]
Islands of culture.
Is it me growing old and cantankerous or – in common with many other people – is it that l just care about this city which adopted me nearly eight years ago. I sometimes see […]
