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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
Scanned from Slide
Just a cool facade over a door. Bath has some wonderful architecture, lots of Georgian limestone buildings. It's an amazingly unified city as well, very similar (and attractive) throughout.
On Sunday I was invited along on a daytrip to Bath by my very nice flatmate Martina. Due to the quirks of uploading, the last picture of the day comes first in the set. Here the group (seven German law students and me) pauses in a square before returning to the bus station for the ride home.
Bath is the largest city in the county of Somerset, England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths. In 2019, the population was 101,106. Bath is in the valley of the River Avon, 97 miles (156 km) west of London and 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Bristol. The city became a World Heritage Site in 1987, and was later added to the transnational World Heritage Site known as the "Great Spa Towns of Europe" in 2021.
The city became a spa with the Latin name Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis") c. 60 AD when the Romans built baths and a temple in the valley of the River Avon, although hot springs were known even before then.
Bath Abbey was founded in the 7th century and became a religious centre; the building was rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries. In the 17th century, claims were made for the curative properties of water from the springs, and Bath became popular as a spa town in the Georgian era. Georgian architecture, crafted from Bath stone, includes the Royal Crescent, Circus, Pump Room and Assembly Rooms where Beau Nash presided over the city's social life from 1705 until his death in 1761.
Saturday 28th June 1980 and a poor Instamtic 126 shot shows there's a typical line up stabled on Bristol Bath Road depot. Starting with 03382 on the left we can then see an 08, 37, 31s, the slightest glimpse of a 50, peak, 08, 31 and a class 47 far right. Somewhere down at the back, possibly behind the peak is Metrovick Co-Bo 5705, then being used as a train heating unit.
Bath White Butterfly
(Pontia daplidice)
Huétor Vega,
Granada,
Spain
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 USM Macro-lens
Bath is a city in the county of Somerset, South West England, known for the curative Roman-built baths that still exist there.
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 even before then. Bath Abbey was founded in the 7th century and became a religious centre; the building was rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries. In the 17th century, claims were made for the curative properties of the water from the springs, and Bath became popular as a spa town during the Georgian era, leaving a heritage of Georgian architecture crafted from Bath stone, including the Royal Crescent, Circus, Pump Room and Assembly Rooms where Beau Nash presided over the city's social life from 1705 until his death in 1761. Many of the streets and squares were laid out by John Wood, the Elder, and in the 18th century the city became fashionable and the population grew. Jane Austen lived in Bath in the early 19th century. Further building was undertaken in the 19th century and following the Bath Blitz in World War II.