Life in Bath. As I have mentioned, Bath is a very Georgian city. What is not generally known though is that visitors are welcome to come and go as they please, as residents we are subject to certain regulations. Dress for example is strictly controlled; ladies are expected to wear a bonnet, gloves and a…
Bath Christmas Market. At this time of year up and down the country Christmas Markets are springing up everywhere. Acknowledged as one of the very best, Bath Christmas Market opened this week and will run for three weeks. For the market lots of wooden sheds – sorry chalets are set up and used as ‘pop…
Slammin’ Sam. At last, after about nine months waiting, we finally got to see ‘Slammin’ Sam Burgess run out for Bath Rugby. This is BIG news, at least in Bath. Sam Burgess is the latest in a line of players to switch code from Rugby League to Rugby Union. It was a great coup when…
Concrete Cows. Yes folks, we’ve been to Milton Keynes. Today we visited our daughter in Bedfordshire and went with her and two granddaughters to Milton Keynes to see the Christmas lights. And some concrete cows. Milton Keynes is a town in Buckinghamshire created as an overspill for people from London. There are positive things to…
Autumn, or is it winter? Days like today are a real challenge for getting a photograph. A late autumn day, or is it an early winter one? Dull, cold, damp and absolutely flat lighting. Looking around for something interesting and frankly there’s not much to see but if you look hard enough there’s always something.…
Fairy Castle. In the mystery land to the west of the ancient city of Bristol, across the Causeway of Cribb everyone lives in fairy castles. Yes, Christmas is on the way! 25 November 2014
The Last Gasholder. This is a picture taken from Royal Victoria Park in Bath looking across towards Whiteway, in between the gloriously autumn coloured trees you can see two cranes and a steel structure. The structure is the last gasholder in Bath and the cranes are in the process of demolishing it. Gasholders are a…
Window Whatnots. I don’t know what they are called, they’re not balconies and they’re not window boxes. In fact I’m uncertain whether they have any purpose other than to be decorative, but I love them. You will find them in many shapes and sizes throughout the city of Bath, some well maintained others decrepit, some…
What the …….? The stonemasons of Bath sometimes get carried away with what they are creating. Mrs Sixwheeler and I came across this, actually there are four of them, and don’t know what they are supposed to be. Is it a pineapple? Could it be an artichoke? Is it just a fanciful whimsy? I really…
Lansdown Crescent, Bath. About a month ago I posted a picture of Bath’s Royal Crescent, perhaps the most celebrated of our Georgian crescents and the one that normally accompanies any mention of Bath in the media. But Bath has several other crescents and my own particular favourite at the moment is Lansdown Crescent. It’s further…
The Sixwheeler Chronicles 