The Royal Crescent
Bath, England, U.K.
03-25-25
Before I take off on one of my trips, I plan for enough time at every destination I want to visit. I use internet searches, travel guidebooks, YouTube videos and word of mouth as indicators of where I want to go and what I want to photograph.
As soon as I saw images of The Royal Crescent, a series of row style townhouses along a curved street in Bath, I was reminded of one of my favorite musical numbers in the 1968 "Oliver". The elaborate number, "Who Will Buy" was filmed on a similar curved street. It was built on a studio backlot and the houses are a lot smaller than The Royal Crescent in the town of Bath, but I immediately added The Royal Crescent to my list of places to see when in England.
Of the photos I took, this one, at 12mm and not "lens corrected" seems to me to display the indication of what the street looks like. No people were digitally deleted either. The place is filled with tourists and locals, who enjoy picnicking on the vast Royal Crescent Lawn in front of the street. #1 Royal Crescent is a museum, with the inside decorated as it would have looked in the late 18th century.
From Wikipedia: "The Royal Crescent is a row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent in the city of Bath, England. Designed by the architect John Wood, the Younger, and built between 1767 and 1774, it is among the greatest examples of Georgian architecture to be found in the United Kingdom.
Of the crescent's 30 townhouses, 10 are still full-size townhouses; 18 have been split into flats of various sizes; One is the No. 1 Royal Crescent museum, and The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa, at the centre of the crescent, is made up of No. 16 and No.15."
The Royal Crescent
Bath, England, U.K.
03-25-25
Before I take off on one of my trips, I plan for enough time at every destination I want to visit. I use internet searches, travel guidebooks, YouTube videos and word of mouth as indicators of where I want to go and what I want to photograph.
As soon as I saw images of The Royal Crescent, a series of row style townhouses along a curved street in Bath, I was reminded of one of my favorite musical numbers in the 1968 "Oliver". The elaborate number, "Who Will Buy" was filmed on a similar curved street. It was built on a studio backlot and the houses are a lot smaller than The Royal Crescent in the town of Bath, but I immediately added The Royal Crescent to my list of places to see when in England.
Of the photos I took, this one, at 12mm and not "lens corrected" seems to me to display the indication of what the street looks like. No people were digitally deleted either. The place is filled with tourists and locals, who enjoy picnicking on the vast Royal Crescent Lawn in front of the street. #1 Royal Crescent is a museum, with the inside decorated as it would have looked in the late 18th century.
From Wikipedia: "The Royal Crescent is a row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent in the city of Bath, England. Designed by the architect John Wood, the Younger, and built between 1767 and 1774, it is among the greatest examples of Georgian architecture to be found in the United Kingdom.
Of the crescent's 30 townhouses, 10 are still full-size townhouses; 18 have been split into flats of various sizes; One is the No. 1 Royal Crescent museum, and The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa, at the centre of the crescent, is made up of No. 16 and No.15."