A Watchman was a forerunner of today’s police constable and their base was a watch box, just like the one in Bath’s Norfolk Crescent. Find out more in this abbreviated version of a paper by Melanie Gilbert-Smith and Professor Barry Gilbertson A Watchman was a forerunner of today’s police constable...
Bath was a thriving social hub in the 18th century, entertaining the fashionable elite Londoners who came to take the waters and see plays at the original Theatre Royal. Vincent Baughan, tour guide at The Old Theatre Royal in Old Orchard Street, explores some key figures connected with that building,...
We have just said an emotional goodbye to our Queen of 70 years. This led Bath resident Astra Blair to look in her archives to tell us the story of her father-in-law Florent Herincx who worked for the Royal tailors, Bernard Wetherill in the 1950s. Words by Emma Clegg. Here...
The young King Henry V has just assumed the throne and is planning to invade parts of France. Then 500 years later wounded First World War British and French troops recuperate in a hospital. Welcome to Henry V with an entirely new spin – a play within a play in...