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Went to Bath to visit Bath Spa University with my daughter so decided to make a weekend of it. Found out that the particular course she wants to do only accepts 38 and they prefer students to already to have completed a Foundation course and complied a pretty good portfolio! So it could be she'll be looking elsewhere for next year. Anyway made the most of it and had a very busy but enjoyable day and night around a city I've not visited in at least 20 years. This shot was taken with my tripod balanced on the balustrade and the central column out at 45 degree hanging over the river unfortunately I couldn't crop out anymore of the balustrade. This shot was about 30 seconds.
Caspian's first bath in the big tub. It would be four months before he could get though a bath without screaming.
Unblended stitch of the Roman Bath in Bath. A brilliant tourist attraction with just a huge amountto see
Great Pulteney Street
Commissioned by Sir William Pulteney, it was designed by the architect Thomas Baldwin and completed in 1789. The Corporation of Bath wanted to expand the boundaries of the City, and Sir William's estate was conveniently situated just over the other side of the River Avon.
At over 1,000 feet (300 m) long and 100 feet (30 m) wide, the road itself is the widest and the grandest in Bath. However, the architect, Baldwin, designed only the façades of buildings. A variety of owners acquired plots of land along the new street and built the actual structures behind the façades, so that while the street has a visual unity, the buildings have different internal features, some having been designed as private houses and others as hotels.
It was foreseen that, along with the access provided by Pulteney Bridge, the eastern side of the Avon would become popular with speculators and developers. This appears not to have been the case, and in the event no further developments were made on this scale. Indeed, one of the side streets off Great Pulteney Street, called Sunderland Street, is the shortest street in the city, with only one address. After 1789, the financial climate did not encourage further building, as the Panic of 1797, related to a period of deflation between 1793 and 1800, was followed by the Napoleonic Wars, which saw the Depression of 1807. Bath was also affected by a serious flood in 1809, hich would have inundated the basements in Great Pulteney Street as well as the surrounding fields.
Famous former residents of the street have included the novelist Jane Austen and the anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce. Numbers 1 to 7 were a single government office, now designated as a Grade I listed building. Numbers 41A and 42 to 77 have also been Grade I listed.
Drawings of all the building plans (including many proposals that were never built) can be viewed in the Victoria Art Gallery situated on the corner of Pulteney Bridge and Grand Parade.
Volvo B7L / Ayats O55/24F new April 2005 , seen at Avon Street car park , Bath. Bath Bus Company took delivery of 3 new partial open top buses in 2005 , 272-4 , and 4 new full open toppers , 372-5 , in City Sightseeing livery. All of these passed with the business from Ensign to RATP on 1st March 2011.
372 has now been repainted in BBC's own "Navigatours" livery. This is a very cold but dry January day , and full open top buses are in use , albeit with very few passengers.
In 2008 I spent some time in Bath. For various reasons these photos later disappeared from my profile. I am stuck at home at the moment so I have chosen to re-instate them.
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When is a cathedral not a cathedral? Well, in this case, when it is Bath Abbey in Somerset. The abbey church of St Peter in Bath was once a Norman cathedral but later bishops preferred nearby Wells and the title slipped back to Wells by order of the Pope.
Bath can also lay claim to being one of the last monastic churches to be built in Britain, its reconstruction ending just a few years before the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. As a late example of English Perpendicular it is also unusual in its proportions, its low aisles and nave arcades and high clerestory levels being the reverse of usual practice.
www.flickr.com/photos/barryslemmings/sets/72157628768507145/ to see the full set.
The site dates back to the pagan Romans and was part of the huge Roman bath complex which grew up around Britain's only active geo-thermal spring. In 675AD King Osric granted land to Abbess Berta to establish a convent here but this was later altered to a monastery. King Offa rebuilt the church in grand style but that is now lost.
Following the 1066 Norman Conquest of England John of Tours was made Bishop of Wells and Abbot of Bath in 1090. He preferred Bath and the cathedral switched there with the monastery becoming a priory. John of Tours planned a grand rebuild but died before it was completed. The half-finished cathedral was devastated by fire in 1137. Joint cathedral status was granted to Bath AND Wells in 1245 but later bishops preferred Wells and its handsome bishop's palace so Bath eventually lost its cathedral status.
Bath fell into disrepair and was ruinous by the time Oliver King was joint bishop in 1495-1503. He carried out much of the existing work including the east front, with its angels climbing up ladders to get to heaven, and the interior fan vaulting by Robert and William Vertue who had also designed similar work for the Henry VII chapel at Westminster Abbey.
The building was stripped and left a ruin during the Dissolution but in 1574 Queen Elizabeth I set up a national fund to pay for the restoration of St Peter's as the parish church of Bath. James Montague joint Bishop form 1608-1616 added £1000 worth of roofing work, His coat of arms appear on the handsome carved east doors.
Sir George Gilbert Scott added the fan vaulting to the nave in the 1860s but this merely completed the original work of Bishop King which had apparently been halted by lack of money.
As Bath was a fashionable health cure in the 18th century it contains an extraordinary number of 18th century memorials, often from non-residents who died in town while visiting. These include Untited States senator William Bingham who died here in 1804. Bingham was once the wealthiest man in the America; he had personally funded the Louisiana purchase by the US government in gold.
Bath is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset in the south west of England. It is situated 97 miles (156 km) west of London and 13 miles (21 km) south-east of Bristol. The population of the city is 83,992. It was granted city status by Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth I in 1590, and was made a county borough in 1889 which gave it administrative independence from its county, Somerset. The city became part of Avon when that county was created in 1974. Since 1996, when Avon was abolished, Bath has been the principal centre of the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES).
The city was first established as a spa with the Latin name, Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis") by the Romans in AD 43, although verbal tradition suggests that Bath was known before then. They built baths and a temple on the surrounding hills of Bath in the valley of the River Avon around hot springs. Edgar was crowned king of England at Bath Abbey in 973. Much later, it became popular as a spa town during the Georgian era, which led to a major expansion that left a heritage of exemplary Georgian architecture crafted from Bath Stone.
The City of Bath was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1987. The city has a variety of theatres, museums, and other cultural and sporting venues, which have helped to make it a major centre for tourism, with over one million staying visitors and 3.8 million day visitors to the city each year. The city has two universities and several schools and colleges. There is a large service sector, and growing information and communication technologies and creative industries, providing employment for the population of Bath and the surrounding area.
PQ Season 5, Week 1 - "String along with me"
"Bath Time" - wall quilt measures approximately 25" x 16"
Inspired by the BLANK walls in our bathroom and a shower curtain I LOVE!
I sew during nap time, after the kids go to bed, and any other "free" time I can find in my home studio in Montesano, WA.
Blue background is made from 1.75" and 2.5" strings sewn together then cut at an angle to create a chevron pattern. Wiggly lines were quilted onto the background to make it look like water. Letters are made from strings of varying widths, cut out, then appliqued on. Binding is made from various strings of navy fabrics.
More about the creative process can be found here: www.eggointheoven.blogspot.com
Bath means “mouth of big river” in Abenaki Indian. Bath is a port of entry with a good harbor formed by the Kennebec River estuary. The city is popular with tourists, many drawn by its 19th-century architecture.
Bath is renowned for shipbuilding, which began here in 1743. Since then, roughly 5,000 vessels have been launched in the area, which at one time had more than 200 shipbuilding firms. Bath became the nation's fifth largest seaport by the mid-19th century, producing clipper ships that sailed to ports around the world. The Bath Iron Works, founded in 1884, has built hundreds of wooden and steel vessels, mostly warships for the U.S. Navy. During World War II, Bath Iron Works launched a new ship an average of every 17 days.
Scenes from the movies Message in a Bottle (1999) and The Man Without a Face (1993) were filmed in the city.
Location: Bath, England in a circular park that slopes up to the right of this picture. Up at the top are the most recognizable homes in Bath. They are built together and make a grand C-shape and overlook the city. I don't have a picture of that here though. Sorry, Charlie.
Time: Anne Marie and I watched the sunset here and ate chocolate digestives. I'm surprised this picture came out at all with the sun setting right behind those houses.
Temperature: Pleasant. I was able to sit on my jacket without feeling chilled.
Temperament: I'm very content with a happy combination of park grass, children playing, digestives, sunset, hot air balloon, good weather, and lovely surroundings.
I'm so out of ideas and motivation. I guess that's what doing taxes does to you. I can't wait until they are done. Still behind and need to catch up.