Could ‘Roman’ Bath have a nearby rival?
Here’s another favourite story of mine – this time from March, 2013. I am still hoping that enough interest – and funding – can be generated to do a proper dig in Keynsham to uncover what could turn...
View ArticleTales of the (Bath) riverbank.
My thanks to Peter Dickinson for putting my mind at rest. Passing by the new Crest Riverside Elizabeth Park – due to be officially opened in a couple of weeks – l noticed the hoarding around a new art...
View ArticleToo high by far.
Good to know all the people moving into the new Holburne Park – the residential development of an old Warminster Road MOD site – will enjoy such fine views across the city. I am not so sure the rest of...
View ArticlePools project appoints new director.
With 4.7 million pounds worth of HLF funding secured, Cleveland Pools Trust have appointed a new full-time to manage and direct the restoration of what is the last Georgian lido in existence. The...
View ArticleAn artful way of telling Bath’s history.
We’re just weeks away from the official unveiling – in Bath – of a new piece of public sculpture from the artist who has already given the city the ‘Herschel Chairs.’ Patrick Haines installing the...
View ArticleRiverside drama
As Chair of ‘CycleBath’, Adam Reynolds is a campaigner for transport improvements and making more inner-city room – and providing safer routes – for those on two wheels. However, just for a change,...
View ArticleAutumn opening for new riverside walk?
The newly shaped and landscaped bank of the River Avon – along from Churchill Bridge – continues to take shape. Looking onto the newly shaped river bank from the Churchill Bridge end. Chatting to one...
View ArticleBath Water Space project launch
Bath’s Water Space project has officially launched its plans to revitalise the river and canals in the Bath area. Bath & North East Somerset Council has for the past year been working with the...
View ArticleGreen shoots from Sainsbury’s
Seems to be a Sainsbury’s week – with apologies to all the other supermarkets in Bath – but the Green Park sited store has been in the spotlight for two reasons. The man in the orange jacket is...
View ArticleA bridge of signs.
Sainsbury’s at Green Park have remodelled the pedestrian walkway across the River Avon onto their supermarket site. The remodelled pedestrian bridge. The tatty curved cover has been removed and the...
View ArticleSunshine, water & cycles!
We’ll get to the water in a moment, but first let’s talk bikes. What is it with the cycle hoops outside Bath’s Guildhall. Do the two bolts holding them in place snap or work free? We seem to have lost...
View ArticleBath’s canal illuminations.
Here’s the sort of amazing lighting effect you can capture if you happen to be in this Kennet and Avon Canal road-bearing tunnel, out of Sydney Gardens, at the right time on a sunny day. Natural...
View ArticleThe ‘forgotten’ Bath bridge.
Plenty of new tree planting underway down at the newly named ‘Bath Quays’ site where a ‘re-defining’ of the river bank – as part of a scheme to reduce the risk of flooding – has created the opportunity...
View ArticleNew trees for riverbank.
Having had to fell quite a large number of mature specimens when work began, the new ‘Bath Quays Riverside Park’ has welcomed the first arrival of a collection of new trees that will result in a wider...
View ArticleBridge work at Sainsburys.
The curved roof has now been removed from the pedestrian bridge which gives access across the River Avon to Sainsbury’s Green Park Station site. The curved canopy has now been removed. The bridge is...
View ArticleMore tales from the river bank.
A packed public meeting at the BRSLI in Queen Square this week to hear Cai Mason of Wessex Archaeology talk about discoveries made during rescue work along the north bank of the River Avon near...
View ArticleNew future for Newark Works?
While Bath Newseum has been following the archaeology that has been undertaken on the south side of the River Avon – near Churchill Bridge – where flood alleviation work involves reshaping the...
View ArticlePutting the Mill on stream.
Bath & North East Somerset Council is investing in a new hydro-electric community-owned energy project on the River Avon. The Council is making a loan to the Old Mill Community Hydro project...
View ArticleRiverbank gives up more secrets
Bath Newseum has made its final trip to the rescue archaeology underway beside the River Avon at Broad Quay in Bath – an area due to be reshaped as part of a flood alleviation programme and also opened...
View ArticleNew Destructor bridge now in place!
Seems the new Destructor Bridge – linking Western Riverside with the Upper Bristol Road – has now been lowered into place and is being secured. Finally – the new bridge is spanning the River Avon. This...
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