The volunteers busy painting a crane at Bath Riverside are making good progress on what has now been described as a ‘painting marathon.’ They are helping to brighten up a ‘city treasure’ under the direction of Bryan […]
Tag: Western Riverside
Brush up on industry
Yesterday – Saturday, September 24th – l popped along to the seventh Industrial Heritage Exhibition – held at Bath City Football Club in Twerton – and designed to make people aware that this was very […]
Bridge access, bikes and buddleia.
Well the good news is that the new Destructor bridge – linking Western Riverside with the Upper Bristol Road – has now been lowered into place and is being secured. The towpath beneath its span […]
New Destructor bridge still not completely ‘docked’.
My thanks to Chris Rogers for two lovely shots of the new Destructor Bridge which finally spans the River Avon down at Western Riverside, as part of the new Crest Nicholson Development. The new structure […]
New bridge slide-out starts today!!
The new prefabricated crossing – to replace the old Destructor bridge across the River Avon at Bath’s Western Riverside – is due to be moved into place between Monday 18th April and Wednesday 20th April 2016 (inclusive). […]
Counting the cost of history.
When he was Mayor of Bath – and a councillor with B&NES – Bryan Chalker helped rescue one of the last remaining rail-mounted, self-propelled steam cranes to be built by one of the city’s most famous industrial concerns. […]
Bottled history!
Western Riverside developers Crest Nicholson have been keen to archive on film many aspects of their residential regeneration of an old industrial site and work to open up a whole stretch of the riverbank as […]
Old bottles and a new bridge.
Only months after the River Avon gave up some of its murky secrets – in a flood relief dredge that discovered stolen cars, countless bikes and scores of supermarket trolleys – they’ve been uncovering a […]
Bridge works!
Things continue to go well as far as making ready the space ‘vacated’ by the old Destructor Bridge for a new cycle and pedestrian carrying link across the River Avon to Crest Nicholson’s Western Riverside […]
Documenting the old Destructor.
People using the towpath on the Upper Bristol Road side of the River Avon and where it passed under the old Destructor Bridge should be warned that access will be lost from September 21st. That’s […]
