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Bath a city with a population of nearly 100.000, is named after its Roman-built baths. The city became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
The city became a spa with the Latin name Aquae Sulis around 60 AD when the Romans built baths and a temple in the valley of the River Avon.
Bath Abbey was founded in the 7th century.
Claims were made for the curative properties of water from the springs, and Bath became popular as a spa town. In the 16th and 17th centuries, aristocrats and even monarchs came here for a cure and made the place famous. The Queen of England was a guest in 1702. The steep rise as a fashionable spa resort of world renown began. By 1800, the population had grown to 34,000 thanks to the spa, making Bath the eighth largest city in England.
The former abbey church of Bath was originally the church of a Benedictine monastery, but has since become the episcopal see of the diocese of Bath and Wells and is now a parish church. In 1088, 22 years after the Norman conquest of England, it was decided to build a representative bishop's church in the Anglo-Norman style. This was badly damaged in the 13th century and rebuilt in the Perpendicular style from 1499. The cathedral of the diocese of Bath and Wells went to the English royal family after the Act of Supremacy and the subsequent separation of the English Church from Rome. In 1574, Queen Elizabeth I of England ordered a restoration, which lasted until 1611. During the 1820s and 1830s buildings, including houses, shops and taverns which were very close to or actually touching the walls of the abbey were demolished and the interior remodelled
Looking down Rivers Street from Brunswick Place, with ghost sign for Old Red House.
A ghost sign is an old hand-painted advertising sign which has been preserved on a building from many years ago.
These dense, diverse and faded advertisements for long, sometimes, forgotten businesses are scattered across Bath's many and varied buildings.
Some are hundreds of years old and are very much visible, others are a muddle of letters that are barely detectable.
Some, sadly, have been banished to the forgotten dustbin of history, having been erased altogether.
I've not seen many good images of Bath and having visited the place last week I can see why. It's a beautiful City but a bit of a nightmare to get a clean composition, but after wandering around for a few hours I settled on this.
The early morning light brings out the honey colour of the Bath stone beautifully.
George Bayntun, fine bindings and rare books. A little bit of heaven, it was what an American starved for a real book store dreams one would be like.
lively up yourself / Bob Marley
You're gonna lively up yourself and
Don't be no drag
You lively up yourself, oh
Reggae is another bag
You lively up yourself and don't say no
You're gonna lively up yourself
'Cause I said so
(Hear what you gonna do)
You rock so you rock so
Like you never did before
You dip so, you dip so
Dip thru my door
You come so, you come so,
Oh yeah!
You skank so, you skank so,
Be alive today.
You're gonna lively up yourself and
Don't say no
You lively up yourself
Big daddy says so
You lively up yourself and
Don't be no drag
You lively up yourself
'Cause reggae is another bag
What you got that I don't know?
I'm a-trying to wonder why you act so
(Hey, do you hear what the man seh?)
Lively up your woman in the morning time, you'all
Keep a lively up your woman in the
Morning time, you'all
Keep a lively up your woman when
The evening come and take her, take ya
You rock so, you rock so
You dip so, you dip so
You skank so, you skank so
And don't be no drag
You come so, you come so
For reggae is another bag
Get what you got in that bag
What have you got in the other bag
You got hanging there?
What you say you got?
I don't believe you!
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I know this shot has been taken a million times, but there's not one bit of Photoshopping done on this and the colours are amazing!