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This podcast is designed to inspire you to get out and explore the beautiful natural landscape surrounding the city of Bath, with its hills and valleys, grasslands and woodlands. Season 1 brought a monthly flavour of the September walking festival through interviews with special guests, a recorded local walk and a 'top-tip' section with festival organiser Lucy Bartlett. Season 2 delves deep into the rich diversity of the Bathscape, its culture, heritage, landscape and people. Footprints was nominated for an ARIA (Audio and Radio Industry Awards) in 2023 in the Grassroots category and in 2023 and 2024 in the Best Local Show category! Hosted and produced by walking and podcasting enthusiast Pommy Harmar. Get in touch with us through Facebook or Twitter, visit our website: www.bathscape.co.uk or email pommyharmar@yahoo.co.uk
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This podcast is designed to inspire you to get out and explore the beautiful natural landscape surrounding the city of Bath, with its hills and valleys, grasslands and woodlands. Season 1 brought a monthly flavour of the September walking festival through interviews with special guests, a recorded local walk and a 'top-tip' section with festival organiser Lucy Bartlett. Season 2 delves deep into the rich diversity of the Bathscape, its culture, heritage, landscape and people. Footprints was nominated for an ARIA (Audio and Radio Industry Awards) in 2023 in the Grassroots category and in 2023 and 2024 in the Best Local Show category! Hosted and produced by walking and podcasting enthusiast Pommy Harmar. Get in touch with us through Facebook or Twitter, visit our website: www.bathscape.co.uk or email pommyharmar@yahoo.co.uk
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This month join us as we expore the follies of Bath. They were the thing in the 18th and 19th centuries. If you had cash to splash, why not show it off in the guise of a temple, a tower or a castle? Dr Amy Frost, Senior Curator, Bath Preservation Trust takes me up to the top of Beckford's Tower and tlaks tabout the man himself, William Beckford. We enlist the help of the Editor of the Folly Fellowship Magazine Jonathan Holt to try and p[in down exactly what a folly is. Finally Fliss Swallow is Head Gardener of the National Trust's Prior Park Landscape Gardens and she shows us around the garden's follies. Credits Music: Audionautix Produced by Pommy Harmar Links Beckford's Tower - www.beckfordstower.org.uk Bath Preservation Trust - www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk Prior Park Landscape Gardens, National Trust - www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/bath-bristol/prior-park-landscape-garden Folly Fellowship - www.follies.org.uk Map of follies - www.follies.org.uk/index.php/map Bathscape - www.bathscape.co.uk…
 
Happy New Year and welcome back to Footprints! In this our first episode of 2025, we look back at our highlights from 2024. More than 40 people took part in the shows last year and we'd like to offer them all a huge thanks for the time, knowledge and passion they put into their work and which shows through in their contributions to each episode. They and the organisations they represent are at the very heart of the Bathscape and we will hear from many more in 2025. Clips Ep 26 March - Geology of Bath: Professor Maurice Tucker tells us about his hero William Smith who is dubbed the Father of Geology. He lived locally at Tucking Mill and designed the first geological map. Ep 27 April - Bath Goes Gardening: Professor Marion Harney shows us around Sydney Gardens describing what the pleasure gardens were like in the time of Jane Austen. Ep 26 March - Geology of Bath: Simon Hart takes us down his mine - Hartham Stone Mine where we hear about the work of the pickers before mechanisation. Ep 30 July - Full Steam Ahead!: Writer Colin Maggs talks about his lifelong passion for steam trains, a passion which has led him to write 114 books! Ep 25 February - Bath in Film: Actor Charlie McCloud talks about what it is like to be an extra on the set of Bridgerton. Ep 30 July - Full Steam Ahead!: Karl Baxter enthuses about running the gruelling 200 mile ultramarathon race backwards and forwards through the Combe Down Tunnel. Ep 27 April - Bath Goes Gardening: Carol Stone shows us around Alice Park Community Gardens and tells us how to manage slugs. Ep 31 August - Hedgelaying, Scything and Dry Stone Walling: In this clip, Dave Pegler describes the ancient art of scything. Ep 28 May - Birding in Bath: Birding expert Lucy Starling takes us to Bathampton Meadows in search of a pair of sedge warblers returning to their nest. Ep 33 October - Take a Walk on the Wansdyke: Local historian Mike WIlliams shows us the ancient monument at the top of Stantonbury Hill Fort. Ep 29 June - Bath City Farm: Farm Manager Ella Holmes takes us to meet the pigs and we hear from a participant of the mental wellbeing group. Ep 34 November - Renewable Bath: Architect Funda Kemal talks about her animation video which shows what Bath might look like with wind turbines, solar panels and green walls. Ep 35 December - A Community Pub Crawl: Simon Coombe outlines the challenges the community faced, bringing the Hop Pole Inn up to scratch, ready to be opened on 25th January 2025. Ep 32 September - Surfing the Generations: Bath College student Abi and Twerton's Forget-Me-Not club member Mary are in conversation. Our thanks to all our contributors throughout 2024 Rachel Bowers, Director, Bath Film Office Charlie McCloud, Actor Emma Morris, Chief Operating Officer, Holburne Museum Professor Maurice Tucker, Bath Geological Society Mike WIlliams, Landscape Historian and Ecologist Simon Hart, Managing Director and Owner, Hartham Park Stone Mine Carol Stone, Volunteer Manager, Alice Park Community Gardens Professor Marion Harney, University of Bath Amie Cook, Community Ecologist, Team Wilder Ecological Advisory Service Cat Baker, Ecologist and Manager, Wild About Bath Lucy Starling, Birding Expert Ed Drewitt, Peregrine Specialist Marika Kovacs, Birding Expert Staff, Volunteers and Members, Bath City Farm Colin Maggs, Author and Railway Historian Mike Beale, Secretary, Bath Railway Society Karl Baxter, Runner, The Tunnel Ultramarathon Mike Reed, Hedgelaying Expert Dave Pegler, Scything Expert Rob Morley, Dry Stone Walling Expert, Cotswolds Wardens Robin Oldland, Dry Stone Walling Expert, Cotswolds Wardens Chris Gannon, Health and Wellbeing Officer, Bath City Football Club Foundation, Reconnecting Twerton Club Members, Reconnecting Twerton Club Nicole Daw, Trails and Access Officer, Cotswolds National Landscape Rob Mitchell, Supplementary School Coordinator, Bath and North East Somerset Council Members, Black Families in Education Group, Bath and North East Somerset Council Members, Forget-Me-Not Dementia Club, Twerton Mitchell Horman, Coordinator Prince's Trust Programme, Bath College Young People, Prince's Trust Programme, Bath College Melanie Barge, Inspector of Ancient Monuments, Historic England Robert Vermaat, Dutch Historian and Archivist William Heath, Organiser, Kelston Roundhill Old Barn Funda Kemal, Architect and Climate Activist Robin Spalding, Programme Manager, Renewable Energy Team, Bath and North East Somerset Council Steve Henwood, Member, The Bell Inn Wendy Matthews, Member, The Bell Inn Dom Moorhouse, Managing Director, The Packhorse Credits Music: Audionautix Produced by Pommy Harmar Links Bathscape - www.bathscape.co.uk…
 
For our mid-winter episode join us for a pub crawl to three cosy community - owned pubs in and around Bath. The last few years have not been easy for pubs, with the pandemic, rising energy costs and inflation. More than 500 closed their doors in 2023, but community pubs it seems, are thriving. The first pub to be bought by the community was The Red Lion in Preston, Hertfordshire in the early 1980s. According to the Plunkett Foundation, a charity which helps people set up community-owned business, as of January 2024 there were upwards of 180 community-owned pubs in the UK and Bath has three of them. In this episode we start at The Hop Pole Inn in Limpley Stoke. It was bought by the community and after three years of frantic fundraising and backbreaking work, it is set to open its doors on 25th January 2025 for the first time in 9 years. Chair of the Board, Simon Coombe tells us all about it. We move on to The Bell Inn in Walcott street which was the very first community-owned pub in Bath. It is also home to the Bath Festival Fringe office. Steve Henwood and Wendy Mathews are heavily involved in both the Festival Fringe and The Bell Inn and talk about what it means to them. Finally we visit The Packhorse in South Stoke. Perched on the side of a steep hill overlooking the beautiful Midford Valley, The Packhorse has been the centre of South Stoke life since the start of the 17th century. Managing Director, Dom Moorhouse shows us around. Credits Music: Audionautix Produced by Pommy Harmar Links Save the Hop Pole Inn - www.limpleystokecbs.org The Bell Inn - www.thebellinnbath.co.uk Bath Fringe Festival - www.bathfringe.co.uk The Packhorse - www.packhorsebath.co.uk Plunkett Foundation - www.plunkett.co.uk Plunkett UK Impact Report 2024 - www.plunkett.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Impact-Report-2024.pdf Bathscape - www.bathscape.co.uk…
 
In 2019 Bath and North East Somerset Council declared a climate emergency and is aiming for Carbon Neutrality or Net Zero by 2030. In this episode we explore what that means and what some of the challenges are facing the city. What will Bath and the landscape surrounding it look like if it is to be powered by solar and wind farms? How can this be achieved while making sure it keeps its UNESCO World Heritage status? Could areas in Bath and the villages surrounding it one day be powered entirely by local renewable energy sources? In answer to these questions, we are joined by three people who are keen to make a difference. William Heath joins me up on Kelston Round Hill at the Old Barn. The building is used for weddings, memorials and events and is completely off grid. Recently they installed a new zero-emissions system to provide electricity and hot water. Architect and climate activist Funda Kemal tells us about her animation video which visualises a future Net Zero Bath, adapted to climate change. Robin Spalding is the Renewable Energy Programme Manager for Bath and North East Somerset Council. He talks about what the Council is doing to reach Net Zero in terms of meeting the energy demand through renewable sources - wind, solar and hydro. Credits Music: Audionautix Produced by Pommy Harmar Links Kelston Roundhill Barn - www.kelstonroundhill.com/home/ Launch of solar panel array - https://kelstonroundhill.com/2024/06/28/celebration-and-discussion-to-mark-the-move-to-renewables/ Funda Kemal - www.fundakemal.org Utopian Realism. Animation Video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcere_Op_0k Bath and North East Somerset Council Climate Emergency - www.bathnes.gov.uk/climate-emergency We Want Wind - www.wewantwind.org…
 
This month we take a walk on the Wansdyke. Stretching for 35 miles the Wansdyke links Savernake Forest near Marlborough with Maes Knoll just south of Bristol. The eastern section in Wiltshire is the best preserved, but in this episode we explore the western section, the piece that starts at the top of Horsecombe Vale and runs through Odd Down, over Stantonbury Hill Fort and on to Maes Knoll. Many questions surround the construction of the earthwork - who built it? The Romans or the Saxons or someone else? Why was it built? And where exactly did it run as it passed by Bath? The Wansdyke been the subject of debate and misinformation for decades and in this episode we’ll try to make sense of it. Local historian Mike Williams shows us around a section at Odd Down, just up near the Park and Ride, and then at the end of the show, we head up to a second section at Stantonbury Hill Fort. Melanie Barge is an Inspector of Ancient Monuments with Historic England and she tells us how they go about protecting ancient sites. We also meet Robert Vermaat in the Netherlands. Robert is a dutch historian and archivist who became interested in the Wansdyke when he was 17. He set up a website drawing together the many articles associated witht the giant earthwork and one of his aims has been to create a long distance path along it. In 2023, the LDWA (Long Distance Walkers Association) put a 13 mile stretch up on their website. Parts of the Wansdyke are clearly marked on OS maps so why not get out and explore it for yourself?! Credits Music: Audionautix Produced by Pommy Harmar Links Historic England https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/ Search the list to find designated (protected) heritage sites https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/missing-pieces/ Allows anyone to add their own information or photos to a site on the List https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/features/ghost-signs/ A recent project asking people to identify Ghost Signs - there are quite a few in Bath. https://historicengland.org.uk/research/heritage-counts/heritage-and-economy/wellbeing/ Historic England's research on health and well-being and Heritage Know Your Place West - https://www.kypwest.org.uk/ Project 21 - http://www.wansdyke21.org.uk/wansdykehomepage.htm LDWA Wansdyke path - https://ldwa.org.uk/ldp/members/show_path.php?path_name=Wansdyke+Path Bathscape - www.bathscape.co.uk…
 
This month we take a closer look at the city of Bath through the eyes of its residents. We will hear some wonderful memories shared by those who’ve grown up and spent their lives working in the city. The episode starts with Reconnecting Twerton , a group set up by the Bath CIty Football CLub Foundation. The group is for older residents and aims to connect older residents with each other, combating loneliness, sharing stories and having a lot of fun. Three of its members share stories about their lives. The Foundation's Health and Wellbeing officer Chris Gannon introduces us to the group We find time to get out and go for a walk. Nicole Daw is the Trails and Access Officer for the Cotswolds National Landscape and she’s been asked by Bathscape to make a number of films about the joys of walking. We join her with young people from the Black Familes in Education Group . Rob Mitchell is the supplementary school coordinator and he talks about why he’s chosen to take them out walking. The episode finishes off at the Forget-Me-Not Dementia Club down at Bath city football stadium. This is a group for older people living with dementia and we hear a couple of them in conversation with some young people from the Bath College Prince's Trust Programme . Mitchell Horman is in charge of the Prince's Trust team programme at Bath Colleg e and he brings the episode to a close with his views on the importance of intergenerational projects. Credits Music: Audionautix Produced by Pommy Harmar Links Reconnecting Twerton - www.bathcityfoundation.org/reconnecting-twerton Bath City FC Foundation - www.bathcityfoundation.org/ Cotswolds National Landscape - www.cotswolds-nl.org.uk/ Black Families in Education Support Group - www.educationequals.org.uk/ Forget-Me-Not Dementia Club - https://www.forgetmenotfamiliarfriendscic.com/ Bath College Prince's Trust Team Programme…
 
This month we head out into the countryside to find out about the many traditional and ancient skills using only hand tools and age-old techniques, including scything, hedge laying and dry stone walling. Local expert Mike Reed tells us all about hedgelaying, why it's done and what is different about the North Somerset style. We head up to Lyncombe Hill Fields and meet Maurice Tennenhaus leading a team of scythers. Presenter Pommy Harmar gets a lesson in scything from scything maestro Dave Pegler. Robin Morley leads the Cotswold Wardens Dry Stone Walling team and we hear from him and from the oldest drystone waller in the group Robin Oldland. Many new words are learnt in all three crafts! Credits Music: Audionautix Produced by Pommy Harmar Links Mike Reid Hedgelayer - https://www.instagram.com/mikereedhedgelaying/ Avon Needs Trees volunteering - www. avonneedstrees.org.uk/volunteering/ Chew Valley Plants Trees - www.chewvalleyplantstrees.co.uk/ Community Farm, Chew Valley Lake - www.thecommunityfarm.co.uk/ Natural England - www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england Friends of Lyncombe Hill Fields - www. friendsoflyncombehillfields.co.uk/ Green Scythe Fair - www.greenfair.org.uk/ The Scythe Association - www.scytheassociation.org/ Cotswold National Landscape - www.cotswolds-nl.org.uk/ Cotswold Voluntary Wardens - www.cotswolds-nl.org.uk/looking-after/volunteering/ Dry Stone Walling Association - www.dswa.org.uk/…
 
Join Dan Merrett (Manager) and Lucy Bartlet t (Community Projects Officer) from Bathscape as they transport presenter Pommy Harmar by electric bike along two disused railway tracks across the Bathscape. We start in Saltford on the Bristol to Bath Railway Path, which follows the route of the Midland Railway Mangotsfield and Bath branch line , which was closed during the Beeching Axe of the 1960s. We meet Colin Maggs , a railway historian and the author of more than 100 books about British Railways. He was awarded an MBE in 1993 for services to railway history and an honorary MA from the University of Bath in 1995. He is joined by Mike Beale , Secretary Bath Railway Society who' can trace back four generations of railway workers in his family. We explore the two tunnels which form part of the Dorset and Somerset Line and meet Karl Baxter a runner competing in the gruelling ultramarathon 200 mile race called simply 'The Tunnel'. Every year around 45 men and women try to run backwards and forwards through the dark mile-long tunnel 200 times. In 2024, only 7 completed the race within the mandatory 55 hours. Credits Music: Audionautix Produced by Pommy Harmar Links Bath Railway Society - www.bathrailwaysociety.co.uk The Railway and Historical Railway Society - Dorset and Somerset line 150th Anniversary Commemoriative Walk with Mike Beale The Tunnel - 200 mile Ultramarathon Race in Combe Down Tunnel Tucking Mill Resevoir - Visitor information Sustrans - Bristol to Bath Railway Path Sustrans - Two Tunnels Circuit Two Tunnels Greenway - www.twotunnels.org.uk Bath and North East Somerset Council - Linear Park…
 
This month's episode celebrates Bath CIty Farm . Situated on a beautiful 37-acre site with stunning views over the city, Bath City Farm is a working farm, that’s also a much loved visitor attraction. On the site there is a community cafe and farm shop, farm animals, children’s playground, woodland and nature trails. Entrance is free however donations are very welcome. In this episode you will meet a varitety of farm animals with livestock coordinator Ella Holmes. And on the way we will talk to: Sarah Davies, Programme Lead for Mental Health Brendan Tate-Wistreich, Director Amy Nelson, Roots to Work Coordinator Sarah Prettejohns, Cafe Lead Roots to Work Luke Roberts, Horticultural Assistant Credits Music: Audionautix Produced by Pommy Harmar Links Bath City Farm - www.bathcityfarm.org.uk Bathscape - www.bathscape.co.uk…
 
This episode is published on International Dawn Chorus Day which takes place on the first Sunday of May every year and this year it’s Sunday May 5th. It is a worldwide celebration of nature's greatest symphony and in this show we want to celebrate birds in general, the birds of Bath and their incredible songs. One of the main reasons that birds like to sing at dawn is that it’s quieter then, the air is usually very still and birdsong has been shown to carry 20 times further at dawn. Remember you don't have to head out to a nature reserve, you can always just open your window - and listen. The episode starts off very early one morning just behind Sydney gardens with expert bird listener Lucy Starling who was keen to find out whether a pair of sedge warblers had returned to nest in Bathampton meadows. Ed Drewitt is a local naturalist, author, tour leader, birder, photographer, public speaker, bird ringer, zoologist, feather expert and he’s currently studying for a PhD based on researching Peregrines for the last 24 years. He talks about what the dawn chorus means to him and describes the life of a peregrine falcon and the Peregrine Project in Bath. The episode finishes with a walk organised by the Cotswolds Wardens with expert birder Marika Kovacs. Credits Music: Audionautix Dawn Chorus audio kindly recorded by Ed Drewitt Produced by Pommy Harmar Links RSPB - dawn chorus - www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/news/the-dawn-chorus-all-you-need-to-know-about-natures-big-show Bath Peregrine Project nest site webcam - www.hawkandowltrust.org/live-cameras/bath-peregrines Cotswold Warden Walks - www.cotswolds-nl.org.uk/visiting-and-exploring/guided-walks Ed Drewitt - www.eddrewitt.co.uk Bath Natural History Society - www.bathnats.org.uk Bathscape - www.bathscape.co.uk…
 
This month, as spring gets properly into its stride, we go gardening. We start with Carol Stone, one of the volunteers from Alice Park Community Garden down below Larkhall on the London Road. If you have always wanted to know how to stop slugs and aphids munching your beans, well - listen in.. Marion Harney , Professor of Buildings and Landscape Conservation at University of Bath takes us around Sydney Gardens, the only Georgian Pleasure Gardens left in the UK and tells us how the Georgians liked to have fun. Amie Cook, Community Ecologist for the Team Wilder Ecological Advisory Service gives advice on how to encourage wildlife into your back garden. This is a service offered by Avon Wildlife Trust via site visits, video calls or workshops. Cat Baker, ecologist and manager of WIld About Bath takes us around a wild garden overlooking Horsecombe Vale, tells us what she loves about gardening and gives tips on composting. Credits Music: Audionautix Produced by Pommy Harmar Links Alice Park Community Garden: www.facebook.com/aliceparkcommunitygarden/?locale=en_GB Team Wilder Ecological Advisory Service, Avon Wildlife Trust: www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk/team-wilder-ecological-advisory-service Wild About Bath: www.wildaboutbath.org…
 
In this episode we take a deep dive underneath the city of Bath and discover the geology that underpins it. Professor Maurice Tucker from the Bath Geological Society tells us about the father of Geology, William Smith Mike Williams is a landscape historian and ecologist and he talks about the affect of the landscape on settlement and biodiversity. He also shows us petrification in action! Finally in our feature we go underground! Simon Hart , Managing Director and Owner of Hartham Park Stone Mine takes us down the mine where we meet a 16 ton chainsaw and see 200 year old graffiti. Credits Music: Audionautix Produced by Pommy Harmar Links Bath Geological Society -www.bathgeolsoc.org.uk Hartham Park Stone Mine - https://www.lovellstonegroup.com/quarry/hartham-park-bath-stone…
 
For this episode you will need to grab your popcorn, dim the lights and settle down for a magical journey to the heart of the filmmaking industry in the historic city of Bath. Rachel Bowers from the Bath Film Office describes the process for bringing upwards of two hundred actors and crew into the heart of the city to film. Charlie McCLoud gives us his very own ‘Life in the day of an Extra’. Plus the Holburne Museum's Chief Operating Officer Emma Morris tells us the inside story of working in a building which famously doubled as Lady Danbury’s grand estate in the hit series Bridgerton Links Bath Film Office - www.bathfilmoffice.co.uk Holburne Museum - www.holburne.org Credits Music: Richard Frohlich Media and the Texas Radio Theatre Company. A short melody of Luigi Boccherini's minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op.13, No.6. Played by Howard Geisel Produced by Pommy Harmar…
 
Happy New Year and welcome back to Footprints! In this our first episode of 2024, we look back at our highlights from 2023. More than 40 people took part in the shows last year and a huge thanks must go to them for making the episodes so fascinating and varied to listen to. They and the organisations they represent are at the very heart of the Bathscape and we will hear from many more in 2024. Clips Ep 13 February - Living Working Bath: Mark Batterham shows us around the Moorlands Estate, the first council estate planned after the second world war and opened by Nye Bevin. Ep 14 March - Art in the Landscape: Marian Hill talks about her exquisitely intricate and accurate identification charts of bugs, beetles and butterflies, using collage. Ep 15 April - Wellbeing in Nature: Lucy Bartlett leads a walk for students as part of Be Well week and three students talk about why being outdoors helps their mental health. Ep 16 May - The Call of the Wild: One of the wildlife enthusiasts featured in the episode Catherine Turner talks about her passion for spiders and has me peering deep into the long grass . Ep 17 June - The Love of Trees: Joe McSorley, lead ranger for the National Trust shows us around Prior Park Gardens and tells us why the gardens were created and what the trees were used for. Ep 18 July - Haile Selassie in Bath: Ras Benji allows us to tag along on a tour of Fairfield House where Emperor Haili Selassie lived during his time in exile during WW2. Ep 18 July - Haile Selassie in Bath: Pauline Swaby-Wallace shows around the Windrush Centre and describes what it was like to come to Britain at that time. Ep 19 August - What did the Romans ever do for Bath?: Combe Down resident Helen talks about the time she found a skeleton of a roman citizen buried in her garden wall! Ep 20 September - Farming in Bath: Bob Honey has a pedigree herd of Herefords, but he also has a cider apple orchard. This is a clip of him describing the year in the life of an apple. You will hear glorious names of apple varieties such as Slack-ma-Girdle! Ep 21 October - Radical Bath: In this clip, Professor emerita June Hannam talks about why Bath was important to the Suffragettes and tree planting at Eagle House. Ep 21 October - Radical Bath: the episode brings us right into the present with Kidical Mass campaigners talking about their mission to create safer streets for children to cycle in. Ep 22 November - Bath at Night: We visit the West of England Falconry Centre in Newton St Loe and hear about Bella the rock owl during one of their flying displays. Ep 23 December - Three Grand Schemes: This episodes hears about Bath Preservation Trust's renovations to Beckford's Tower, one of the National Trust's Green Corridor schemes at Bathampton Meadows and the recently-opened Cleveland Pools. In this clip three inspiring women talk about their experience of swimming in temperatures of around 10 degrees! Our thanks to all our contributors throughout 2023 Stuart Burroughs, director, Museum of Bath at Work Diana Ahmed, Twerton artist Mark Batterham, local historian Jessica Palmer, Bath artist Perry Harris, Bath artist, watercolourist and cartoonist Marian Hill, Bath illustrator Chris Pound, architect, writer and World Heritage expert George Cook, project officer, Avon Wildlife Trust Mike WIlliams, Bath naturalist, specialist in beetles Catherine Turner, Bath naturalist, specialist in spiders Alan Rayner, Bath naturalist, specialist in mosses, lichens and liverworts Helen Hobbs, organiser, Chalcombe Toad Patrol Karen Renshaw, ecologist, Bath and North East Somerset Council Dr Penny Hay, co-founder, Forest of Imagination Andrew Grant, co-founder, Forest of Imagination Savita Wilmott, director, Festival of Nature Joe McSorley, lead ranger, National Trust Hugh Williams, tree specialist and walk leader Princess Esther Sellassie Antonhin, great granddaughter of Haile Selassie Ras Benji, manager, Fairfield House Pauline Swaby-Wallace, director, BEMSCA (Bath Ethnic Minority Senior Citizens Association) Bob Whitaker, archaeological adviser BACAS (Bath and Counties Archaeological Society) Lindsey Braidley, director, Clore Learning Centre, Roman Baths +Helen, Combe Down resident Bob Honey, Bath farmer Biddy, Bath farmer Mark Smith, adviser FWAG (Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group) Andrew Swift, local historian Professor Emerita June Hannam, University of the West of England Annie Beardsley, Bath Natural Theatre Company Saskia Heijltjes, organiser, Kidical Mass Naomi Johns, manager WOEF (West of England Falconry Centre) Joe Middleton, manager, Herschel Museum Sam Grief, manager, Cleveland Pools Siobhan, Rachel, and Victoria, Cleveland Pools swimmers Dr Amy Frost, curator, Bath Preservation Trust Joanna Rolfe, project officer, National Trust Credits Music: Audionautix Produced by Pommy Harmar Links Bathscape - www.bathscape.co.uk…
 
This month we celebrate three grand projects happening in Bath - Cleveland Pools, Beckford's Tower and Bathampton Meadows. Cleveland Pools - back in 1801 a new bylaw was passed - the Bathwick Water Act. It prohibited nude bathing in the river Avon and so was born Cleveland pools because the swimmers had nowhere to swim. Cleveland Pools is only a short walk the other side of Sydney Gardens and has recently reopened to the pubic following years of planning and designing, lottery applications and of course the building works. Now, with its highly modern heat pump allowing it to be heated during the summer, it has already attracted Bath’s keen cold water swimmers. Its manager Sam Grief and some hardy swimmers bring it to life. Beckford’s Tower stands tall on the top of Lansdown, visible for miles around. It’s closed at the moment, shrouded in scaffolding and plastic while all kinds of major renovation works are carried out. It was built for William Beckford, a writer, collector and slave owner and Dr Amy Frost from the Bath Preservation Trust tells us about its complex history. We finish the episode at Bathampton Meadows which is a new acquisition for the National Trust. It is one of their 20 green corridors sitting just below Little Solsbury Hill by the river Avon. Joanna Rolfe from the National Trust tells us how it came about and what plans they have for the site. Credits Music: Audionautix Produced by Pommy Harmar Links Bathampton Meadows, National Trust Bath Preservation Trust Cleveland Pools…
 
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