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This shot was taken at 20:41 in the rain. The first time ever I saw this strange view of Bath. Towards the far end it seems it's still sun setting while everywhere else was dark blue. you can see the silhouette of some trees if you view large!! i've gotta come back another day around this time to catch another great look of this!!
Canon 400D | Sigma 70-300@70mm | 15s | f/9 | ISO100
Seen slowly but surely making its way up Widcombe Hill in Bath is an Enviro 200 of The Big Lemon's fleet. It's just passed St. Matthew's Church with a Saturday afternoon service bound for the city university.
Operator: The Big Lemon
Vehicle: ADL Enviro 200
Reg: YX17 NRN
Fleet No.: 1200
Location: Widcombe Hill, Bath
Route: 20: Twerton - University of Bath
Date: May 25, 2024
Crimean War Memorial
An obelisk of pennant stone; it is unusual for its age (1856) because it records the names of both officers and other ranks.
The top of the monument contains the names of various Crimean War battles: Bomarsund, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sweaborg, Tchernaya and Sebastopol. Bomarsund and Sveaborg/Viapori are not in the Crimea at all, but in the Baltic. An Anglo-French fleet spent part of the Crimean War bombarding Russian fortresses in the Baltic, including Bomarsund in the Åland Islands and Sveaborg (Suomenlinna) off the coast near Helsinki (now part of Finland).
The names are as follows:
Major-General Sir John Campbell
Colonel W. Trevelyan
Lieutenant-Colonel E. S. T. Swyny
Lieutenant-Colonel L. B. Tyler
Captain T. B. Foster
Lieutenant Thomas Molyneux Graves
Major W. Swinton
William Shell, Seaman (first who fell in the war)
George Roberts, Corporal, 21st Fusiliers
Robert Warren, Private, 21st Fusiliers
Edward Harris, Private, Royal Artillery
Erected by Citizens of Bath, | In honour, under God, | Of those Heroic Men, especially | Their Fellow-Citizens and Friends here recorded, | Who laid down their lives | In the Campaigns of 1854-5, | triumphantly achieved | for the liberties of Europe.
"There is a time to die." -- Eccles. iii. 2.
A report of the inauguration of the monument was published in the Bath Chronicle of 5th June 1856. It was apparently a big occasion, with a ceremony at the new memorial, a big service at Bath Abbey with an address by the Bishop ("perhaps so large a congregation was never before assembled in the Abbey Church as on this occasion"), and much sadness and rejoicing. The account also provided some practical details:
The monument was erected using surplus funds subscribed by the citizens of Bath in March 1855, when a number of wounded soldiers were passing through the city.
The obelisk was designed and executed by Mr. Samuel Rogers, jun. of Widcombe, and was constructed in "the finest pennant stone" It is 20 feet high, the base surrounded by flowers.
Its chosen site was at the head of the carriage drive where the road diverges to the mortuary chapel.
The 1939-1945 memorial tablet
The names are:
G. Baatz (St Mark's, Widcombe, Bath) -- Gunner George August Frederick Baatz (Service No: 1121703), 71 Field Regt., Royal Artillery; died 3 January 1944, aged 32; buried in Cassino War Cemetery, Italy (III. D. 12. ); son of August Frederick William and Florence Fanny Baatz, of Bath, Somerset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2608050/BAATZ,%20GEOR...
D. W. Branch (Shipham) -- Leading Aircraftsman Derrick Robert Branch (Service No: 1316887), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve; died 25 August 1945; buried in Maynamati War Cemetery, Bangladesh (3. C. 13.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1056902/BRANCH,%20DER...
G. Collier (Wedmore) -- Private Wilfred George Collier (Service No: 14456017), General Service Corps; died 5 March 1945, aged 18; buried in Wedmore (St Mary Magdalene) Churchyard Extension, Somerset (Plot B. Grave 68.); son of Ernest Dan and Elsie Josephine Collier. of Wedmore: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2692338/COLLIER,%20WI...
R. J. Dabinett (Drayton) -- Sapper Richard James Dabinett (Service No: 14356271), 510 Field Coy., Royal Engineers; died 24 March 1945, aged 23; buried in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany (54. E. 10.); son of Ralph Edmund and Jessie Dabinett; husband of Freda Doreen Dabinett, of Hastings, Sussex: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2035985/DABINETT,%20R...
A. E. Eades (Charlton Mackrell) -- Sergeant Aubrey Edward Eades (Service No: 1605781), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (166 Sqdn.); died 26 October 1944, aged 21; name recorded on the Runnymede Memorial (Panel 228.); son of Edwin Charles and Daisy Annie Eades, of Charlton Adam, Somerset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/232690/EADES,%20AUBRE...
T. Maunders (Milverton) -- Pilot Officer Thomas Victor Saunders (Service No: 48745), Royal Air Force (142 Sqdn.); trade: Obs.; died 14 July 1942, aged 20; buried in Milverton (St. Michael) Churchyard, Somerset; son of Charles Victor and Hilda Catherine Maunders, of Milverton: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2692158/MAUNDERS,%20T...
C. Morgan (Dinder) -- Probably: Gunner George Edward Morgan (Service No: 969301), 107 (The South Notts. Hussars) Regt., Royal Horse Artillery; died 6 June 1942, aged 25; name recorded on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt (Column 14.); son of Albert Victor and Elisa Jane Morgan, of Dinder, Somerset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2184487/MORGAN,%20GEO...
P. N. Rainey (Marston Magna) -- Lance Corporal Percy Normand George Rainey (Service No: 262181), 6th Bn., Grenadier Guards; died 17 March 1943, aged 29; buried in Sfax War Cemetery, Tunisia (III. AA. 21.); son of Charles and Eliza Ann Rainey, of Marston Magna, Somerset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2183299/RAINEY,%20PER...
R. Raymond
B. Sibley (Ilminster) -- Private Bertram Sibley (Service No: 5675606), 7th Bn., Somerset Light Infantry; died 25 September 1944, aged 27; buried in Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Nijmegen, Netherlands (21. D. 3.); son of Mr. and Mrs. George Sibley; husband of Phyllis Mary Ives Sibley, of Southgate, Middlesex: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2646872/SIBLEY,%20BER...
L. G. Slade (St Michael's, Minehead) -- Seaman Lewis George Slade (Service No: D/JX 238844), Royal Navy (H.M.S. President III); died 19 August 1941; name recorded on the Plymouth Naval Memorial (Panel 48, Column 2.); son of William John and Eva Ellen Slade, of Minehead, Somerset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2487820/SLADE,%20LEWI...
The Grade II* Listed Bath Spa Railway Station, Bath, Somerset.
Bath Spa station was built in 1840 for the Great Western Railway by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It is in an asymmetrical Tudor style with curving gables, and lies on the north bank of the Avon, with the line swerving across from the southern bank to the station and then back again. Opened on 31 August 1840, the station was originally named Bath, but was given its present name of Bath Spa in 1949 to distinguish it from Bath Green Park station, which did not have its name altered from Bath until 1951.
A convenient feature for passengers was the ramps that led up to both platforms, giving the disabled and those with luggage easy access from the platforms to cars or taxis. However, in 2011 the northern ramp was removed in a station redevelopment which provided lifts instead. There is also a footbridge leading directly from the station across the Avon and allowing direct access to the Widcombe area. It was originally tolled, and informally known locally as the Ha'penny Bridge; it was reconstructed in 1877.
The station has wide spacing between the platforms: there were originally two broad gauge carriage sidings between the platform lines. The station was first built with a hammerbeam roof covered the area between the platforms, however this was removed in 1897 when the station was remodelling with longer platforms. The station originally had a three track goods shed immediately west of the station, to the north of the main track. In 1877 a large goods depot was built about 500 metres to the west at Westmoreland, and the goods shed was demolished for the station remodelling in 1897.
...on the Kennett and Avon canal, the section just above lock number 13, on the outskirts of Bath, Somerset.
Plein air, postcard size.
One of the few marked graves in this closed burial ground. Poignant reminder of the high infant mortality of the time.
One of three Commisioners' churches built in Bath. Dating from 1830-2, it was built during the 'Gothic Revival'. The architect was G P Manners, City Architect, who had bit of a mixed record. The polygonal chancel by Thomas Ames was added in 1883. It was closed in 1975 and runs as a community centre
This pair of cottages (now knocked into one) is believed to be C17th, making it the oldest house in Widcombe.
The Grade II* Listed Bath Spa Railway Station, Bath, Somerset.
Bath Spa station was built in 1840 for the Great Western Railway by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It is in an asymmetrical Tudor style with curving gables, and lies on the north bank of the Avon, with the line swerving across from the southern bank to the station and then back again. Opened on 31 August 1840, the station was originally named Bath, but was given its present name of Bath Spa in 1949 to distinguish it from Bath Green Park station, which did not have its name altered from Bath until 1951.
A convenient feature for passengers was the ramps that led up to both platforms, giving the disabled and those with luggage easy access from the platforms to cars or taxis. However, in 2011 the northern ramp was removed in a station redevelopment which provided lifts instead. There is also a footbridge leading directly from the station across the Avon and allowing direct access to the Widcombe area. It was originally tolled, and informally known locally as the Ha'penny Bridge; it was reconstructed in 1877.
The station has wide spacing between the platforms: there were originally two broad gauge carriage sidings between the platform lines. The station was first built with a hammerbeam roof covered the area between the platforms, however this was removed in 1897 when the station was remodelling with longer platforms. The station originally had a three track goods shed immediately west of the station, to the north of the main track. In 1877 a large goods depot was built about 500 metres to the west at Westmoreland, and the goods shed was demolished for the station remodelling in 1897.
The Big Lemon operate services in the Bristol & Bath area, such as route 20 that serves Bath's university campus. An electric Optare Solo that was new to Stagecoach Highlands in March 2015 is seen cruising down towards the city centre on a lovely day just over a year ago. This one arrived with the Big Lemon in February 2024.
Operator: The Big Lemon
Vehicle: Optare Solo SR Electric
Reg: YJ15 AWF
Location: Widcombe Hill, Bath
Route: 20: University of Bath - Twerton
Date: May 25, 2024
Sherborne School, UK, Book of Remembrance for former pupils who died in the First World War, 1914-1918.
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Details: William Henry Duckworth (1896-1916), born 5 November 1896, son of William Henry Duckworth (Barrister-at-Law) and Emme Duckworth, of 46 Upper Gloucester Place, London.
Attended Broad Oak Preparatory School, Northwood.
Attended Sherborne School (School House) September 1910-July 1914.
WW1, in March 1915 joined the Inns of Court O.T.C., obtaining in July 1915 a commission in the Lancashire Fusiliers 20th Battalion. He was wounded at Neuve Chapelle on 22-23 March 1916 and died at Le Treport, in No.3 General Hospital, on 14 April 1916. Buried at Le Treport Military Cemetery, Plot 2. Row O. Grave 19.
Commemorated at:
Le Treport Military Cemetery, Plot 2. Row O. Grave 19 www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/116913/DUCKWORTH,%20W...
Widcombe War Memorial www.warmemorial.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/3i.html
Sherborne School: War Memorial Staircase; Book of Remembrance.
England in the summertime... amateur cricket at Bath, overlooked by the Victorian spire of the St Matthew's Church and the suburban houses of the same period in Widcombe climbing up the hill.
West tower of St Marks - perpendicular gothic revival with a nod to the Somerset style. To the right of shot is the burial ground, now separated from the rest of the church precicts by a surfaced and fenced footpath.
As part of an investigation of light pollution in the city of Bath, this is a measurement of the spectral irradiance of a high-pressure sodium street-lamp measured from ~65cm above the pavement directly under the lamp.
The red-line spectrum shows the spectral irradiance in Watts/ square metre/ nanometer. This corresponds to an illuminance of 42.9 Lux with a correlated colour temperature (CCT) of 1987K.
The dashed black line shows a Planck function with this CCT. These lamps have a very low colour temperature and, as such, are probably far less damaging to wildlife than the brighter, whiter, more modern LED street-lamps that are becoming ubiquitous in towns and cities throughout the world.
The inset shows the colour of the lamp (red cross) falling close the the thermal emission (Planck) locus on the CIE1931 colour-space diagram.
The Grade II* Listed Bath Spa Railway Station, Bath, Somerset.
Bath Spa station was built in 1840 for the Great Western Railway by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It is in an asymmetrical Tudor style with curving gables, and lies on the north bank of the Avon, with the line swerving across from the southern bank to the station and then back again. Opened on 31 August 1840, the station was originally named Bath, but was given its present name of Bath Spa in 1949 to distinguish it from Bath Green Park station, which did not have its name altered from Bath until 1951.
A convenient feature for passengers was the ramps that led up to both platforms, giving the disabled and those with luggage easy access from the platforms to cars or taxis. However, in 2011 the northern ramp was removed in a station redevelopment which provided lifts instead. There is also a footbridge leading directly from the station across the Avon and allowing direct access to the Widcombe area. It was originally tolled, and informally known locally as the Ha'penny Bridge; it was reconstructed in 1877.
The station has wide spacing between the platforms: there were originally two broad gauge carriage sidings between the platform lines. The station was first built with a hammerbeam roof covered the area between the platforms, however this was removed in 1897 when the station was remodelling with longer platforms. The station originally had a three track goods shed immediately west of the station, to the north of the main track. In 1877 a large goods depot was built about 500 metres to the west at Westmoreland, and the goods shed was demolished for the station remodelling in 1897.
A tad bizarre.
Taken during a backstage tour of the Natural Theatre Company at the bottom of Widcombe Hill.
Best viewed large: www.flickr.com/photos/david_lewis_baker_arts/3486225149/s...
Looking over the former heart of medieval Bath, now largely in Georgian facades, towards the neo-Georgian Southgate development in the middle distance due for completion in 2010-11. (Southgate was literally the South Gate of the medieval walled city.)
The building in the left foreground with the four columed Greek style classical portico and two circular glazed lanterns on its roof is the Fremason's Hall (c1817-19) - later the Friend's Meeting House and (April 2009) subject to a planning apllication for a luxury restaurant. Just to the right behind it is part of the elaborate facade of Ralph Allen's town house (c1727). Allan became rich through his Bath stone quarries and built the enormous Prior Park neoclassical mansion on parkland visible here directly above the tip of the arm of the yellow crane on the Southgate development. To the left behind the Freemason's hall are the saw-toothed roofs of the few remaining 16th and 17th century houses including Sally Lunns Tea House (c1622 - not 1485 as a plaque suggests). And behind this is the line of the fine North Parade Buildings (c1748-50). The lone tree in the right foreground is in the centre of the beautiful Abbey Green with some fine c17th and c18th century houses. The out of scale modernist building behind the square with the black roof is the Marks and Spencer department store.
The hillside behind includes the districts of Holloway, Widcombe, Lyncombe and at the highest point Beechen Cliff, Bath's most famous viewing point from the South, immortalised by Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey as: 'that noble hill whose beautiful verdure and hanging coppice render it so striking an object from almost every opening in Bath'.
First time ever I felt like a proper photographer - I used a stopwatch to time the exposure! Woo, steady on eh?
The Grade II* Listed Bath Spa Railway Station, Bath, Somerset.
Bath Spa station was built in 1840 for the Great Western Railway by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It is in an asymmetrical Tudor style with curving gables, and lies on the north bank of the Avon, with the line swerving across from the southern bank to the station and then back again. Opened on 31 August 1840, the station was originally named Bath, but was given its present name of Bath Spa in 1949 to distinguish it from Bath Green Park station, which did not have its name altered from Bath until 1951.
A convenient feature for passengers was the ramps that led up to both platforms, giving the disabled and those with luggage easy access from the platforms to cars or taxis. However, in 2011 the northern ramp was removed in a station redevelopment which provided lifts instead. There is also a footbridge leading directly from the station across the Avon and allowing direct access to the Widcombe area. It was originally tolled, and informally known locally as the Ha'penny Bridge; it was reconstructed in 1877.
The station has wide spacing between the platforms: there were originally two broad gauge carriage sidings between the platform lines. The station was first built with a hammerbeam roof covered the area between the platforms, however this was removed in 1897 when the station was remodelling with longer platforms. The station originally had a three track goods shed immediately west of the station, to the north of the main track. In 1877 a large goods depot was built about 500 metres to the west at Westmoreland, and the goods shed was demolished for the station remodelling in 1897.