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…
Christmas Lantern Parade. Each year at about this time Bath’s Holburne Museum organises a Christmas Lantern Parade; local schools make lanterns and Bath Spa University build the larger ones. This year’s parade had a maritime theme with sharks, mermaids, sea horses, jelly fish, lots of little fishes and an elephant. Together with drummers and hordes…
Yucky Stuff. Regular readers will have seen that I sometimes refer to my home town of Bath as the Beautiful City of Bath, which it is. However for the last few days our river has been blessed with some spectacular lumps of Yucky Stuff floating downstream and I’m sure that by now a committee of…
Eastgate, Bath. If you look hard as you’re going around Bath there are some historic gems hidden away waiting to be seen. This is the ancient Eastgate entering the city from the river on the eastern side. Sadly the view the other way towards the river is a mess of bicycles, boxes and traffic cones.…
Pulteney Weir. This is the horseshoe weir in the River Avon in Bath. Normally a gentle waterfall goes over its steps but we’ve had a bit of rain in the West Country over the last few days so it’s got a bit of a spate on. Last winter during the floods you couldn’t actually see…
Chimney Pots, Bath. I cannot help noticing the many and wonderful chimney pots that adorn the rooftops of the Beautiful City of Bath. 9 November 2014
Jay. Sometimes when I’m out for a walk I cut through the grounds of the Royal United Hospital, where I was lucky enough to spot this Jay. Normally a very shy bird this one continued to scratch away in the undergrowth long enough for me to get my camera out and take this picture. For…
The Sixwheeler Chronicles 