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The West Front of Bath Abbey. Bath Abbey is an Anglican parish church and former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England. Founded in the 7th century, it was reorganised in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries; major restoration work was carried out by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s. It is one of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West Country. The cathedral was consolidated to Wells Cathedral in 1539 after the abbey was dissolved in the Dissolution of the Monasteries, but the name of the diocese has remained unchanged.
Class 33/0, 33043 pauses at Bath Spa on a cold 13th February 1986, working 1O75 12.05 Bristol Temple Meads - Portsmouth Harbour.
Sergeant Emil Šeliga
Service Number: 787371
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve: 311 (Czech) Sqdn.
Died 30 August 1943
Aged 24
LANSDOWN BURIAL GROUND (Sec. 4. Row T. Grave 16.A.)
The rose left by the grave maker may have been the one left
by the Embassy of the Czech Republic during a group visit in mid-October 2020. In a web post, the Ambassador, Libor Sečka, described it as "probably the most neglected Czechoslovak war grave in Britain." There were times earlier this year when the front of the grave marker (like many others in the cemetery) was obscured by long grass, but the cemetery's annual maintenance regime usually takes care of this during the autumn (The local authority webpage on the cemetery notes that the "whole cemetery is cut annually during the winter months and the arisings removed to reduce enrichment of the ground thus encouraging natural vegetation"). As a closed cemetery being managed as an ecological asset, Lansdown Burial Ground will never be like the immaculate, CWGC-maintained cemeteries like Brookwood (or the CWGC plots in Haycombe Cemetery, elsewhere in Bath), but I personally think that it's a bit unfair to describe it as "an abandoned, forgotten place, reminiscent of a horror scene." All cemeteries have their seasons, and having visited Lansdown Burial Ground many, many times during this strange year, I can assure Ambassador Sečka and his host in Bath that the cemetery (and Sgt Šeliga's grave marker) is far from abandoned or forgotten: www.mzv.cz/london/en/culture_and_education/project_never_...
No 311 (Czechoslovak) Squadron, RAF was formed as a bomber squadron in 1940, being equipped with the Wellington medium bomber. In April 1942, the squadron was transferred to Coastal Command to conduct maritime patrols. It moved to RAF Beaulieu (Hampshire) in May 1943, when the squadron re-equipped with the Liberator GR Mk V for anti-submarine work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._311_Squadron_RAF
Sgt Šeliga was part of the crew of RAF Liberator GR.V BZ 785, which crashed on the 30 August 1943; according to the New Forest Knowledge blog, the aircraft stalled whilst in a steep turn during a training flight and crash landed: nfknowledge.org/contributions/no-311-czechoslovakian-squa...
RAF Commands identifies the rest of the crew as:
Flight Sergeant Josef BITTNER (787427) – pilot; Brookwood Military Cemetery (28. A. 4.)
Sergeant Josef FISERA (787361); Brookwood Military Cemetery (28. C. 2.)
Flight Lieutenant Emil PALICHLEB (82625); Brookwood Military Cemetery (28. C. 1.)
Flight Sergeant Zdenek REZAC (787061); The Maidenhead Register
Sergeant Theodor SCHWARZ (788207); Brookwood Military Cemetery (28. A. 7.)
Source: www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/details.php?qnum=114617
See also: fcafa.com/2011/05/04/brookwood/
an abandoned bath house in Japan.
For those that missed it, check out my spot on Japanese TV.
Canon 7 RF + 50mm F/1.4 LTM, NeopanSS Twitter
The common view of Bath. Material for part of a presentation regarding the 'Southside Project', which provides family support in the Twerton area.
Credit for this shoot also to Jackson Kingsley.
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.
Taken 05/10/14; Bath Abbey, seen from the far side of the Avon, is now an Anglican parish church and was a former Benedictine monastery. Founded in the 7th century, Bath Abbey was rebuilt in the 12th Century. Following the Reformation the Abbey fell into disrepair but was rebuilt in the late 16th century at the instigation of Queen Elizabeth I. Further major restoration work was carried out by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s.
This cupola was on the top of the school that was bombed in what is now known as the Bath School Disaster; the deadliest attack on a school in the history of the United States.
In 1927, a school board member, reacting to high taxes that lead to foreclosure on his farm, killed his wife, burned his farm buldings as a distraction, and detonated hundreds of pounds of explosives in the basement of the school, killing 38 children.
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Bath Street, Bath. Designed by Thomas Baldwin and started 1791.The Colonnades were inteded to provide cover for sedan chairs carrying patients between baths