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Let water take its course
One positive amongst all the negatives when it comes to the flooding misery so many have been enduring is that people are now taking the marked variations in our climate a little more seriously. The...
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Bath may have to live with flooding.
Bath is going to have its own ‘Cobra-styled’ body to formulate strategy on how the city must learn to live and deal with future flooding. Flooded foothpath. The Virtual Museum has been told it will be...
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Bath residents ask – why are we forgotten?
Whole swathes of Bath’s architectural history and heritage are at risk from flooding and nothing is being down to protect them. Ian Herve, SecretaryHenrietta Park Association That’s the claim being...
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Doors open again at the Newark Works
The old Newark Works. Click on images to enlarge. Some good news at last for one of Bath’s most sensitive derelict sites. The old Newark Works – historic home to crane makers Stothert and Pitt for many...
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New look for Cleveland Pools
The new logo for Cleveland Pools A sneak preview of the new logo for the Cleveland Pools Trust which is going to be officially launched at Easter – though you can see it on their website...
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Current in the past
Elsewhere in this cyber museum you will find stories about Bath’s River Regeneration Trust and plans for harnessing the flow of the Avon at Pulteney Weir to generate electricity. It’s seen as a great...
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Does Bath’s river hold water with you?
A group of experts will be gathering in Bath today (Thursday, January 16th) to ask – in a public debate – whether the River Avon is an asset or a liability to the city through which it runs. The...
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River transformation underway
Bath & North East Somerset Council and the Environment Agency are about to start work on a £6.22 million project to transform the riverside in Bath and improve flood defences. The Bath Quays...
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Trust in your volunteers.
Unveiling the upgraded sign post. Click on images to enlarge A sunny celebration in Bath (on Friday, June 5th) on a tiny patch of land where the River Avon meets the Widcombe end of the Kennet and Avon...
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Dredging up the past.
The work completed. New plantings will be made on a re-shaped riverbank. Councillors will be brought up to date with work on the Bath Flood Alleviation Scheme – which involves re-shaping the banks of...
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Have your say on towpath.
Bath & North East Somerset Council is running a public consultation as to how best to improve a significant portion of the towpath along the Kennet & Avon Canal between Sydney Gardens and...
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Documenting the old Destructor.
The old Destructor Bridge. 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...
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No return to Avon
Cllr Tim WarrenLeader of B&NES. Greater powers – yes – but we don’t want Avon back again. That’s the mission statement of the Leader of B&NES Council, Cllr Tim Warren, who is quoted in a report...
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New river safety film launched
As part of its commitment to improving safety along the River Avon, Bath & North East Somerset Council has produced a short film about the new river rescue cabinets. 14 new river rescue cabinets,...
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Wake up to water!
The Greek inscription you can see just below the pediment on the Pump Room facade. You would think that a city whose fortunes have revolved around its springs and water courses would be doing more to...
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Cleveland Pools lecture, bridge inspection and latest on old Harvester.
Sally Helvey giving her lecture at the Guildhall. Cleveland Pools. Sat in on a free lunchtime lecture at Bath Guildhall given by Sally Helvey who is a trustee of the Cleveland Pools Trust. They of...
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Bad news from the tree ‘doctors’
The ‘mystery’ tree trunk damage. Click on images to enlarge. Just in case – like me – you wondered what had happened to this tree just inside the Sydney Road entrance to Sydney Gardens – opposite the...
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Old bottles and a new bridge.
There’s a bike coming up in the underwater grab! Click on images to enlarge. Only months after the River Avon gave up some of its murky secrets – in a flood relief dredge that discovered stolen cars,...
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Work on new road system begins.
Work on the next phase of the Bath Quays Waterside project will begin on January 20, 2016. The £6.22m project, a collaboration between Bath & North East Somerset Council and the Environment Agency,...
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Cleveland Pools dig.
Archaeological investigations, funded by Historic England, have just been completed in the Ladies Perpetual Shower Bath building at Bath’s historic Cleveland Pools. The following report – and...
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