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Architectural speakers fill the master bath and shower with music. Beautiful tile work by Rod Katwyk of 3D Tile & Stone.
'The Stone Haven' by Tree Haven Homes. 'PEOPLE'S CHOICE' winner, 2015 Salt Lake Parade of Homes. Home entertainment and smart home systems designed and installed by TYM.
Photography by Brad Montgomery
take a bath with a vampire.
model: Lagrima @ Morgan
Photograph: Jonathan Von Trier
quelques part perdue dans un lieu sombre et calme, seul le bruit du claquement d'un volé, retentit dans ce silence
Bath is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, South West England, 97 miles west of London and 13 miles south-east of Bristol. In 2011, its population was 88,859. It became a city by Elizabeth I granting it a Royal Charter in 1590 and a county borough in 1889. The city became part of Avon in 1974; since Avon's abolition in 1996, it has been the principal centre of Bath and North East Somerset.
The city became a spa with the Latin name Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis") c. AD 60 when the Romans built baths and a temple in the valley of the River Avon, although oral tradition suggests that the hot springs were known before then. It became popular as a spa town during the Georgian era, leaving a heritage of Georgian architecture crafted from Bath Stone.
Gareth and me cycled the Bristol to Bath cycle track last Sunday.
I've not cycled it for over twenty years, we used to ride it a lot when I was a teenager.
A great day out if you have a bike, safe and flat and only a couple of road crossings and one railway crossing.
We started in Fishponds where we left the car and arrived in Bath a hour later. Had two pints in a pub then cycled back, this time going straight past where we left the car and onto the very end/start in St Phillips near Bristol City Centre.
When I rode it last it only started at Staple Hill and finished by the Brassmill Industrial Estate about two miles outside Bath City Centre. Now it goes from city centre to city centre, about 13 miles.
We're planning on doing it again in September, good times.
No - not the bath room ;-)
We visited the very nice university city of Bath in South England in 1994. Not with blue sky as a few days before in Land's End, but in the british rain.
Even with rain Bath didn't loose any attractivity
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City of Bath. Beautiful, Elegant and one of the best places in England. There are around 450,000 others though!.
Milestone. Early C19. Stone. Square with rounded corners and top. Incised Roman
letters read:
On east face To Reading 9 Miles Bath 78
On west face To Hyde Park Corner 30 ? Miles
Maidenhead 4 Colnbrook 13
From www.milestonesociety.co.uk/aboutmilestones.html
Turnpike Trusts were set up, by Acts of Parliament, from 1706 to the 1840s. Groups of local worthies raised money to build stretches of road and then charged the users tolls to pay for it.
From 1767, mileposts were compulsory on all turnpikes, not only to inform travellers of direction and distances, but to help coaches keep to schedule and for charging for changes of horses at the coaching inns. The distances were also used to calculate postal charges before the uniform postal rate was introduced in 1840. At the height of the turnpike era, there were 20,000 miles of roads with milestones.
From the 1840s, rail travel overtook road for longer journeys and many turnpike trusts were wound up. In 1888, the new County Councils were given responsibility for main roads and rural district councils for minor routes. As faster motorised transport developed so the importance of the milestones waned.
Such waymarkers are fast disappearing; around 9000 are thought to survive in the UK. Most were removed or defaced in World War II to baffle potential German invaders and not all were replaced afterwards. Many have been demolished as roads have been widened, or have been victims of collision damage, or have been smashed by hedge-cutters or flails. Nowadays, roadside milestones generally fall within the remit of the local Highways Authority or the Highways Agency and their contractors.
The Guildhall in Bath, Somerset, England was built between 1775 and 1778 by Thomas Baldwin to designs by Thomas Warr Attwood. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
The current Bath stone building replaced a Stuart Guildhall, built in 1625, which itself replaced an earlier Tudor structure.
The facade has 4 Ionic columns and the building is surmounted by the figure of Justice. The central dome was added in 1893. It forms a continuous building with the Victoria Art Gallery and the covered market.
The interior includes a banqueting hall with engaged Corinthian columns. It contains 18th century chandeliers and original royal portraits. The room is used on royal visits to the city including Queen Elizabeth II who had lunch in the banqueting room in May 2002.
It now houses the Council Chamber and Register office for Bath and North East Somerset and is used as a wedding venue, and for filming period dramas. The Guildhall also serves as one of the venues for the Bath International Music Festival.
The Guildhall was originally built as a town hall: it has never served as the meeting place of any specific guild. A suggested etymology is from the Anglo Saxon "gild", or "payment"; the guildhall being where citizens came to pay their rates.
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 allocated Bristol Omnibus Bristol RELL 1302, HHW 915L, leaves Bath for Trowbridge, on September 23rd 1979.
Copyright Robert Tarling.