Yes, We Do Need to Salute Bath's Industrial Heritage
The Bath Chronicle › September 01, 2011
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I'm sure that most people would agree Kirsten Elliott's idea of the old Newark building being used for the relocation of the splendid Guildhall archives and as a museum of Bath is a good one and it was nice to see Bryan Chalker's ringing endorsement of this in the Chronicle. I wonder if this is an ideal candidate for lottery money? With the daft things such money is sometimes spent on, surely there is no better case than for this in a heritage city? I was much struck by Bryan's passion for heritage. I'm sure the average person knows very little of our 'sweat and toil' past. I pass almost every day the Georgian technological wonder of the navigation canal here in Lower Weston but the only commemoration of it is the date 1728 on the Dolphin Bridge.
Not unnaturally the industrious Ralph Allen had more than a little hand in this and it is said John Wood possibly had a hand in some of the navigation.See the full content of this document
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Yes, We Do Need to Salute Bath's Industrial Heritage
It is staggering to think this Georgian masterpiece is still going strong after over 280 years and that Weston Lock is the deepest of all the six locks cut between Bath and Bristol.
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