My thanks to Virtual Museum follower Terry James for this image. A sign painted on a Georgian house in Gay’s Hill, Lower Camden in Bath. Can anyone tell us more? There must be a connection […]
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Turning Bath’s past into a digital future.
There cannot be many people – with an interest in local history – who have not heard of Bath in Time. It’s an organisation which – since its inception in 2007 – has managed to […]
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 handy when the city needed to promote its recently discovered Roman baths and its spa […]
Respect! – for the ‘Penfold Hexagonal’
It is, he said, faded and defaced. It’s little companion coin-in-the-slot stamp dispenser empty and forgotten. This is a ‘GR’ pillar – that’s George the Sixth – which dates the letterbox to the 1930’s. Meanwhile, I […]
Shop window on Medieval Bath
A rather forgotten period in Bath‘s illustrious past is getting a shop-front showing in a new business that has just opened in the city. Ora et Labora – which means pray and work – not […]
Bath’s hidden Chinese history
A little bit of Bath‘s hidden history is going to be revealed to us all in a couple of months and it has nothing to do with the city’s Roman or Georgian past. Just across […]
Statue moves!
Looks like the double-life-sized torso of Olympic swimmer Mark Foster – which stands at the entrance to the SouthGate Shopping Centre – could shortly be on the move. However, the artist who sculpted it would […]
Bath Rugby Club’s Vision for the future!
Bath Rugby Club’s plans for a new arena at the Rec have finally gone on show. A 16,500-capacity stadium which would transforms facilities, increase ground capacity and open up a key stretch of riverside. On […]
‘B.C.’ was here!
The Virtual Museum bicycle had been dropped off at Take Charge Bikes on Bathwick Hill for essential brake repairs – leaving your Director free to wander for an hour with a camera. As one who […]
‘Doing the Pools’
We are not talking here of that old weekly ritual of getting eight football draws in a pools-coupon line but instead paying Bath’s Cleveland Pools a visit during a special Open Day arranged for November […]
