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Five must-do things in January
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AUTHORS GALORE We preview the 2013 Independent Bath Literature Festival’s diary of events
18 WHAT’S ON A round-up of the best theatre, comedy, opera, music and events across Bath to fill your new year’s calendar
24 BATH AT WORK This month’s portrait by Neill Menneer is of travel writer Jeremy Seal
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ARTS & EXHIBITIONS What’s on show in the city this month
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BATH PEOPLE
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EDUCATION The latest news from our schools
GARDENING Expert advice from gardening guru Jane Moore
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INTERIORS Intelligent infilling from Bath’s builders
The movers and shakers in the city
FACE THE MUSIC The new artistic director of the Bath International Music Festival, Alasdair Nicolson chooses his favourite tracks
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BIGWIG The legacy of the new year diary
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We delve into the past to discover the Italian sculptors of Bath
THE CITYIST The buzz in Bath this month
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PROPERTY Quality homes around Bath
42 FAMILY FUN Theatrical delights and activites for all the family to enjoy throughout January
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RESTAURANT REVIEW The Kilted Chef in Kingsmead Square
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WINE O’CLOCK Lower calorie wines for post-Christmas
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WINTER WALK An 11-mile stroll taking in Brown’s Folly
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FIT AND FAB The latest beauty news and products
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BEAUTY REVIEW We review a massage at the Thermae Spa
ON THE COVER Happy New Year from all the team at The Bath Magazine
Typography by Lorna Harrington
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EDITOR’Sletter
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appy New Year Bath! I know we’ve all got hopes and dreams for the coming year, but indulge me if you will for a couple of wishes of my own. Wouldn’t it be great if in 2013 the sun comes out and shines on all our superb Bath festivals? Wouldn’t it be lovely to have enough of a summer this year to actually cultivate something other than slugs in our gardens? And let’s all wish for a year in which Bath’s independent traders, small businesses and creative Bathonians get the economic boost they need and deserve to thrive. Meanwhile, inside the gleaming towers of The Bath Magazine’s headquarters we’re committed to continuing to bring you as much about the city’s diverse cultural scene as we can possibly squeeze into our pages, and it’s our pledge to continue to provide Bathonians with the biggest, most read magazine in the city. Enjoy our January offering for starters. We have an interview with Alasdair Nicolson, the new artistic director of the world famous Bath Music Festival, plus a preview of some of the highlights of what promises to be an exciting Bath Literature Festival. Our award-winning gardening writer Jane Moore has jobs for us to get on with in the garden, and wine expert Angela Mount suggests wine that’s lower in alcohol but big on flavour. There are our What’s On pages and our unique guide to the latest art exhibitions, plus a new year walk to work off some of that Christmas food, and a reminder to all those running in March’s Bath Half Marathon that it’s time for us to step up our training.
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Salute Gill McLay, pictured, and her husband John, who founded and nurtured the Bath Children’s Literature Festival, which has run annually since 2007, have handed the reins over to Bath Festivals. The McLays will continue their successful careers as literary agents. But audiences will be pleased to hear that the guest artistic director for this autumn’s festival is the creator of Skellig, David Almond. He said he was thrilled and honoured to have been invited and he already has links with Bath as a Professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University. The 2013 festival takes place in September.
Toast It’s a well known fact that there is always a man in a kilt at a wedding, no matter how far from Scotland the ceremony may be. It’s also fair to say that, come Burns Night, this year on Friday 25 January, many of us are quick to claim Scottish roots and enjoy a feast in honour of the poet Robbie Burns. At The Kilted Chef, head chef Dougie Bonar, who is as Scottish as a stick of Edinburgh rock, is hosting a Burns Night feast. This will include a bagpiper welcoming in the haggis, the brandishing of the dirk and a whole feast of traditional Scottish dishes, including cullenskink, stovies and cranachan, not to mention a dram or two of whisky to raise a toast.
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For anyone who would like to be involved in one of Bath’s most original festivals – the Bath Fringe – there is a public meeting on Monday 7 January. Bath Fringe 2013 will run from 25 May to 9 June and already there are plans afoot for who is performing. For the legions of fans of the Spiegeltent portable music hall, pictured on Bath’s Rec, the good news is that it will be back this summer in all its multi-mirrored and painted glory. All are welcome at the Fringe meeting, which begins at 6pm at Burdall’s Yard, Anglo Terrace, which is just off London Road by the Cleveland Place traffic lights. Meanwhile follow the progress, visit: www.bathfringe.co.uk or follow on Twitter, @bathfringe.
Celebrate January 28 sees the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and to mark the bicentenary the book will be read aloud during a 24 hour readathon. The reading – by around 140 people – will take place at the Jane Austen Centre in Gay Street and will be streamed to fans all around the world. Readers include celebrities, writers, politicians, musicians, Olympians and children. We
don’t yet know who will have the honour of reading the opening line, which is probably the most famous in English literature: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” All readers will be offered the opportunity to dress in Regency costume.
Watch Bath has a mutually admiring relationship with acclaimed film director Ken Loach, perhaps most famous for Kes. Not so many people know that Loach has made films that the censors deemed too controversial to be seeen. In Political Correctness, an evening of three banned films, at Bath City Football Club, Twerton on Friday 1 February, Loach will be showing and talking about those films, which includes Which Side Are You On? about the 1984 miners’ strike. Tel: 01225 313247 to book.
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THE CITY
One city . . . one month
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My BATH We ask Mel Taylor director at Running High Events, organisers of the Bath Half Marathon, what she is doing this month What brought you to Bath? I’m a local girl, my parents moved to Bath as children and I was born in a village on the outskirts of Bath. For a few years I worked in Australia and London, but Bath has always felt like home.
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Acclaimed artist and illustrator Alice Tait, who graduated from Bath Spa University in 2002, has launched this cheerful print of a spring day in Paris, which is being sold as a limited edition colour screen print at the Rostra gallery in Bath. Alice has worked for many high profile clients including Chanel, Vogue, Jamie Oliver, Penguin Books and the Hollywood Reporter.
DONATE There were around 127 deaths last winter in the Bath & North East Somerset Council area which were deemed to be beyond the expected death rate for the population, and sadly, the cold weather was to blame for the deaths of a proportion of the elderly who died. With 14 per cent of local residents living in fuel poverty, that represents a lot of elderly people who cannot afford to have their heating on when they need it. Local charity the Quartet Community Foundation is inviting those who do not need their winter fuel allowance to donate so it can directly help others. A similar Surviving Winter campaign last year raised £47,000 to help local pensioners in need. To contribute: visit www.quartetcf.org.uk or send a cheque made payable to the Surviving Winter Appeal to: Quartet Community Foundation, Royal Oak House, Royal Oak Avenue, Bristol BS1 4GB. For every £1 donated the fund can collect a further 25p in Gift Aid.
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so proud of our achievement in growing the race into the largest single-day charity fundraiser in the south west, raising over £1.5m a year. It’s inspiring working with our charity partners, helping to raise funds and profile. When I’m not clearing up the debris around our Georgian What are you reading? I’m reading James Buchanan the 15th President house that we’re slowly renovating, and being of the US who also happened to be my brother- run ragged by two delightful but energetic young boys, and an equally excitable dog, I like in-law’s ancestor, so it makes an interesting to relax by restoring and painting furniture. read. I’ve been reading Michael Morpurgo’s Medal for Leroy to my sons, they’ve read most Walking is a great relaxation. I also enjoy of his books, and we saw him at the Children’s swimming, Zumba and Pilates – even surfing in the summer. I’m not a natural runner but I did Literature Festival. run the Bath Half one year. I am also a great window shopper and I love baking and What is on your MP3 player? entertaining. I love music, my husband Andrew is always having to turn it down. I like a wide range, at What local outdoor activity or event will you be the moment I’m listening to a lot of Michael doing or visiting? Bublé, Coldplay and Emeli Sandé. This time of year we start to batten down the hatches for the final run in to the Bath Half on 3 Which café or restaurant takes your fancy? March – we’re now less than 12 weeks away. It’s Ben’s Café near our office in Walcot Street a massive undertaking, I’m responsible for the serves the best coffee and light meals in the race charities, and for the creative brief, world, and Kira and Ben welcome all the production, PR and media. The Bath Half regulars like family. We love the new Marathon on Sunday 3 March, from 11am, is Carluccios – when you close your eyes it’s just one of the most popular races in the UK with like sitting in the Piazza Navona in Rome. entries being sold out well in advance each year. The event attracts around 30,000 spectators Your passions? What hobbies or interests will around the course to watch 15,000 runners and you be pursuing? a further 1,500 in the family fun run. It’s been a privilege developing the charity Visit: www.bathhalf.co.uk. ■ fundraising platform of the Bath Half. We’re
Girl Cop by Sandy Osborne Published by Silverwood, paperback available from Amazon and Waterstones PC Sally Gently joins the policemen of Bath on the beat in the early 1990s – in the days when, like the men in Life on Mars, sexism was rife. This is a fictionalised account of what it was like to be a policewoman in Bath by an author who was there. There are lots of familiar places for
Bathonians, like Bennetts Lane, the Bath cats’ and dogs’ home, Bath Magistrates Court and Mallory the jewellers, in this chick lit novel, which has its official launch in Waterstones on 16 January from 6pm.
We’re following @weloveBath an independent tweeter with 12,000 plus followers – a great forum for recommending services, places to eat etc in Bath. Also a good platform for topical praise and criticism for aspects of life in the city.
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NOTES ON A SMALL CITY By Bigwig
SOMETHING TO READ ON THE TRAIN
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hope you have all entered 2013 clutching a shiny new diary. That’s one of life’s perennial dilemmas, isn’t it, the new diary? So many difficult decisions: A4 or A5, page a day or week on view, padded or not padded, red, black or burgundy? Buy now or wait until February when they are suddenly half price? That’s of course if you are businesslike and have a proper desk diary, not one of these silly ones with kittens on the front given to you by Auntie Mabel…or worse still those free ones from the plumber or your insurance company that are all cheap and floppy. I’ve gone for A5 week on view this year, and in my usual schoolboy way I have entered my name and personal details in my bestest handwriting, in the full knowledge that within the first week the pages will be filled with my worst illegible scrawl. I do always state on the flyleaf that there is a reward for the finder, but I don’t fill in the bits about when the next MOT is due or my insurance policy numbers and the like because in my experience, finders (of which there are many as I am a habitual loser) pry into all your private bits. I once lost my diary in the New Forest and it was kindly returned by someone who had actually gone through it and made annotations. Such as ‘Are you really meeting Angela Rippon? The TV presenter?’
it was kindly returned by someone ❝ who had actually gone through it and made annotations ❞ As for the info pages at the front, do I want to know when Armistice Day is in Australia or that one hectolitre equals 26.417 US gallons? I think not. I have never met a diary editor, but if I ever do I will explain nicely that to know that one lunar month is 2,419,200 seconds will not help me plan my life in the year ahead one jot. Although I use my diary on what is practically an hourly basis (short term memory is shot), I have never actually kept a diary. I should have of course, people say ‘ooh, you should write a book about all the things you’ve done’. Trouble is, I can’t remember when I did them. And doing all the things I’ve done has left very little time to sit and write them down. I don’t know how these politicians, pop stars and the like manage to do it. Well, I do know. They have someone else do it for them. I once stayed at a Caribbean resort hotel, with the declared intention of doing some writing. On hearing this, the manager delivered a huge manuscript to my room. He thought, for some reason, it might help me with my task. It had been mistakenly left by a famous playwright and was his personal diary of a Broadway production of one of his plays. I skimmed through it for any juicy celeb gossip of course, but it was on the whole very tedious. The only interesting feature was that it had been dictated at length every night from New York to his secretary’s answering machine in London, and each day she had laboriously typed it out and faxed it back. Big sections were translated as ‘indistinct’, presumably when the writer had downed one too many post-rehearsal gin and tonics. This was before email became universal. It turned out to be of no help whatsoever and I did eventually return it to its rightful owner. Perhaps I should have read it more carefully, because, very surprisingly in my opinion, some time later it became the basis for a hit West End play. ■ WWW.THEBATHMAGAZINE.CO.UK
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Alasdair Nicolson, the new artistic director of the Bath International Music Festival talks to Georgette McCready about his plans for the 2013 festival and picks his top ten favourite pieces of music
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t the time of writing the full programme for this year’s Bath International Music Festival hadn’t been unveiled, so it was great to be able to have some time to talk to the new artistic director Alasdair Nicolson about what audiences can expect from this year’s festival. Alasdair is one of Scotland’s leading contemporary composers, he conducts orchestras all over the world and is about to begin a season with the London Symphony Orchestra. He has also run the St Magnus Festival on Orkney for the past two years. When he took over that directorship he said at the time that he was going to ‘bring no great shake-ups but some quirky twists.’ 14 THEBATHMAGAZINE
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Which he did, so Scottish audiences were treated to concerts aboard ferries along with the more traditional performances in the cathedral. And his approach is similar for Bath, he says, where much of the established tradition of bringing excellent musicians from all over the world will continue, along with a few tweaks and flourishes. “I like the idea of collaborations, of mixing up different art forms, like music, dance and writing for instance. I have been talking to James Runcie (artistic director of the Independent Bath Literature Festival) about bringing elements of the two festivals together.”
NEW ROLE: Alasdair Nicolson, the new artistic director of the Bath International Music Festival
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SOURCES OF INSPIRATION: left to right, Baraba sings Ne me quitte pas by Jacques Brel, the Isle of Skye is evoked by the traditional music of Catherine-Ann MacPhee, and the Swedish Royal Ballet performs The Rite of Spring by Stravinksy
Alasdair recently moved to Faversham in Kent, having lived in and around London for many years – mainly because of work he says. He is looking forward to spending time in Bath and says he hopes that musicians will also relish the chance to do more than merely perform then leave. “One of my great festival things is that artists should be seen in more than one light, that maybe they’d do a solo show, then a big concert piece, then perhaps some teaching. We’d see them about on the streets, in cafés and all of this adds to the festival experience and engages audiences.” He is keen to attract audiences of all ages and has pledged to keep the popular Party in the City night of free, live music that Bathonians can enjoy. This, on Friday 22 May, will include the usual procession of schoolchildren through the city to the Abbey, but the new twist is that those youngsters will have rehearsed songs from A Little Book of Monsters with lyrics by Matt Harvey and music by Stephen Deazley. And that’s when he reveals that the theme for the 2013 festival is The Four Ms – namely myths, monsters, mystics and magic. There is an old tradition of musicians writing pieces for festivals and gatherings, of being organisers and performers at the same time and Alasdair intends to continue that tradition by performing French and Belgian songs by Jacques Brel, Bressens and Barbara. “I’m dusting down my piano playing and soprano Jessica Walker, a daughter of Bath will be singing some of those French chansonnier ballads about the darker aspects of life. It’s the sort of music you kick back with a Gaulois and a drink to enjoy.” When he’s not composing, conducting or planning exciting and entertaining festivals, how does Alasdair unwind? He says as a freelance there isn’t too much time for that. “I do enjoy gardening, I have an acre of garden now which I can see from my new composing shed, which I am very excited to own. Because of my professional life, where I bring lots of ingredients together – I guess you can tell where this is going – I like to cook. It’s great for unwinding. I’ve promised the Bath festival staff I intend to cook for them. It’s so good to get people round a table to eat and to talk. I’m looking forward to it.”
where I worked with the likes of Teresa Berganza. Singing and opera have always been important to me – opera allows me to combine my love of music with my love of the theatre. Figaro is one of those pieces that you can revisit a million times and it never fails to move. Another composer whose whole catalogue could have been listed.
Alasdair’s top ten:
● Jean Sibelius – 7th Symphony For anyone who comes from the Northern lands Sibelius often seems to capture a sense of landscape that is familiar. This sweeping orchestral piece reminds me of the beautiful, fierce and empty landscapes of Highland Scotland – blues, greys and space.
● JS Bach – Goldberg Variations For any composer Bach is a source of inspiration for his energy, invention, practicality and fluency, and this piece is full of all four. I can remember being asked to write exercises in the style of Bach when I was studying and discovering by trying to mimic his techniques how clever he was. I could have mentioned ten pieces by Bach alone here. ● Catherine-Ann MacPhee – Canan nan She’s a traditional singer from Barra and the title is an album, but it’s a collection of music that I knew in my upbringing on the Isle of Skye; music that takes me right back to my childhood and music that has a visceral effect on me. The first music I knew was Gaelic singing and piping and, in my father’s ideal world I would have been a master bagpiper. ● Mozart – The Marriage of Figaro In my early career as a musician I worked as a repetiteur and spent some time on the music staff at the Opéra de Monte Carlo WWW.THEBATHMAGAZINE.CO.UK
● Maurice Ravel – Gaspard de la Nuit I love the music of Ravel for its detail and sensuousness and this is a piece, when I was learning music at school, that I used to listen to over and over again hoping that I would one day learn it – I still haven’t. Wonderful, sweeping virtuosic music that takes over the piano in tidal waves. ● Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring This was the piece which alerted me to the idea of being a composer and made the most enormous impression on me. It made a big impression on its first audience with reported riots at the theatre. I wish I could travel back in time to be there and experience what it felt like as a brand new piece. ● McCoy Tyner – Search for Peace If anyone asks my favourite jazz pianist then I’m always stuck. Oscar Peterson might have been the answer but I love the invention of McCoy Tyner and his elegant technique as a pianist. In the days of Tower Records, Piccadilly Circus being open until midnight and CDs still relatively new, I can remember buying a recording completely without knowledge and loving it instantly. ● Jacques Brel – Ne Me Quitte Pas I remember both my sister and the French Assistante who came to my school introducing me to this Belgian singer/songwriter whose songs deal with every aspect of life, large and small. I toured the UK and abroad with a show whose centrepiece was this bleak song of loss and it’s a song which always leaves that unassailable aftermath of reflective silence – and tears.
● Giussepe Verdi – Otello Anyone that is interested in opera will have to mention Verdi. Otello is a great example and it contains one of his most beautiful moments in Desdemona’s Willow Song. From his mid 20s he wrote an opera a year – there’s a hard working composer. ● Peter Maxwell Davies – Eight Songs for a Mad King I couldn’t believe this piece of music theatre when I first heard it and wondered who had written it. I’m lucky now to call Max a dear friend and the piece is part of the repertoire. Max has been a great influence in terms of his work across the worlds of music as a teacher and composer as well as his work in education and the community. Of course, I now share his connection to Orkney. ■ Bath International Music Festival runs from 22 May to 2 June. Visit: www.bathmusicfest.org.uk for more information JANUARY 2013
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A SPRING BLOCKBUSTER Tickets for the 2013 Independent Bath Literature Festival go on sale on 9 January. Georgette McCready looks at some of the highlights of this year’s festival
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ath’s annual spring literature festival is about far much more than celebrities coming to flog their books. Outgoing artistic director of the Independent Bath Literature Festival James Runcie has throughout his four-year tenure shown his integrity by ensuring that the ten-day festival is all about books and reading and above all, intelligent thinking and lively discussion. The 2013 programme does not disappoint on all counts. He has wooed the notoriously shy double Man Booker prize winner and author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies Hilary Mantel down to Bath where she will take to the stage for a discussion with James about Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII. No doubt the appearance of JK Rowling to talk about her first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy, will also create a lot of interest. And, no Harry Potter fans, she will not be talking about your favourite boy wizard. But there are themes to provoke further reading, thought and discussion. And one of these themes is the year 1913 – exactly a century ago – giving us the chance to look at the state of European society and politics before life was irrevocably shaken up forever by what was known at the time as the Great War. James Runcie said of this year’s programme: “We are using 1913 as a springboard to talk about history, memory, politics, mortality, freedom and national identity. This was a fantastically creative year – the Rite of Spring, the Woolworth Building, Chaplin’s first films, Britten’s birth – and we want to explore it with the same creativity and vitality and bring you the best of the past to come to a deeper understanding of the present and to anticipate the future. “In 2014 everyone will be commemorating the Great War and rightly so, but I want to look at Europe before this, at Paris, Berlin, Sarajevo. What was Europe like before World War One? What makes a creative community? How can art progress
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without becoming narrow or decadent? How much can it define who we are and what we do? And if we know who we are and what we believe in, how much are we prepared to sacrifice for our beliefs? What in essence does freedom mean? What are the values we hold dear?” The opening talk of the festival is Sarajevo, given by BBC world affairs correspondent Allan Little in the Guildhall on Saturday 2 March and focusing on the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Other events related to 1913 include: Bath in 1913, a guided walk with Andrew Swift and Kirsten Elliott, Friday 8 March; Jonathan Bate and James Runcie on First World War Literature on Saturday 9 March; The World Before the Great War with Charles Emmerson, Sunday 10 March, and Man Booker winner and author of the Restoration trilogy Pat Barker, also on 9 March on her new book Toby’s Room.
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It is appropriate for a city surrounded by such beautiful and historic countryside, with sites such as Avebury and Stanton Drew so near, that another major theme of the festival is landscape. This has been centred on Francis Pryor’s beautifully illustrated book The Making of the British Landscape: How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today. The theme of landscape stretches out to include talks on maps, otters, trees and a look at how it shapes our national identity.
VISITING BATH: main picture, taking part in this year’s festival are – among others – Harriet Walter, PD James, Hilary Mantel, Polly Toynbee, JK Rowling, Helen Dunmore, Rachel Joyce, Pat Barker, Kate Mosse, Elif Shafak, Tracey Thorn and Darcey Bussell
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INQUIRING MINDS: the outgoing artistic director James Runcie brings a programme of speakers that educates, entertains and provokes Bath audiences
James Runcie is bringing the ancient folk tradition of the British Isles to this year’s festival with an unusual event involving live music performances all round the city. Local musicians will be taking different chapters from The Penguin Book of Folk Songs on the various themes of love, betrayal, death and rural life and performing in various venues. To find out more, visit: folksongs@bathfestivals.org.uk. The Big Bath Read is an established part of the litfest calendar. It gives people the chance to read a book in advance, to discuss it at book groups and to come armed with thoughts and questions for the author. This year, Turkey’s biggest selling author Elif Shafak is in Bath on Saturday 2 March at the Guildhall at 8pm. Her latest novel, Honour, is set in Turkey and London in the 1970s and surrounds the issues of so-called honour killings. It was the No 1 best seller in Turkey for six weeks when it first came out last spring. As a festival director James Runcie enjoys a good debate and
this year this tradition of free speech and hotly contested issues will continue in the form of daily debates in the Guildhall at lunchtimes. The Independent Voices debates allows us to go along, learn something new about a subject, view it from both sides, and to also air our own strongly held views. Parents whose children are studying the classic To Kill A Mocking Bird will be delighted to hear that respected actress Harriet Walter will be joined by students from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School for a dramatic re-enactment of the court scene that’s central to the Harper Lee novel. She will be joined by her husband, American actor Guy Paul. There will, as always, be a guest list that includes some popular famous faces that will have Bath audiences rushing to buy tickets and this year’s big names include Sandi Toksvig, Toynbee, Darcey Bussell, Kate Mosse, Gavin Esler, Robert Fisk, PD James and Paul Mason. ■ For more details visit: www.bathlitfest.org.uk
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WHAT’Son THEATRE, DANCE & COMEDY – listed by venue Mousetrap. This thriller is a whodunnit written by the greatest crime writer of all time and the world’s longest running stage play. In her own inimitable style, Dame Agatha Christie has created an atmosphere of shuddering suspense and a brilliantly intricate plot where murder lurks around every corner. The scene is set when a group of people gathered in a country house cut off by the snow discover, to their horror, that there is a murderer in their midst. One by one the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts. But who can it be?
Blood Brothers at the Theatre Royal Bath
The Mousetrap
STRONG BOND T he atr e R oya l Sawclose, Bath. Box office tel: 01225 448844. www.theatreroyal.org.uk
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Until Sunday 13 January, contact the theatre for times
Principal is appointed, Quartermaine’s future looks precarious. This quintessentially British drama is written by Simon Gray with his characteristic sparkling wit. Quartermaine’s Terms
For only the second time in the Theatre Royal’s illustrious pantomime history comes the classic fairy tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Playing the Wicked Queen is Olivier Award-winning Nichola McAuliffe, the Dame is played by Chris Harris as Nurse Nelly, seven genuinely little people are playing the seven dwarfs and local comic Jon Monie plays Muddles.
Blood Brothers, Monday 28 January – Saturday 2 February, 7.30pm; Thursday – Saturday, 8pm; matinees: Wednesday & Saturday, 2.30pm West End star and multi-platinum selling artist Marti Pellow joins the cast of Blood Brothers for a week in Bath. Hailed by critics as one of the best musicals of all time, Blood Brothers has triumphed around the world. Set in Willy Russell’s native Liverpool, this is the compelling tale of twin boys, separated at birth only to be reunited by a twist of fate and a mother’s haunting secret. The show-stopping songs include Bright New Day, Marilyn Monroe and the emotionally-charged hit, Tell Me It’s Not True. Blood Brothers
Quartermaine’s Terms, Monday 14 – Saturday 19 January, 7.30pm; Thursday – Saturday, 8pm; matinees: Wednesday & Saturday, 2.30pm Rowan Atkinson stars in this play set in the 1960s in an English language school for foreigners. This tragicomic play is a humorous but ultimately moving account of several years in the lives of seven teachers. At the heart of the group is St John Quartermaine (Rowan Atkinson) – kind, pleasant and agreeable, but utterly hopeless as a teacher. An almost permanent feature in the staff room, he’s always available to listen to the problems of his self-obsessed colleagues. But when a new 18 THEBATHMAGAZINE
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Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, Monday 21 – Saturday 26 January, 7.30pm; Thursday – Saturday, 8pm; matinees: Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday, 2.30pm The Queen has recently marked her 60th year of coming to the throne and the same diamond anniversary is being marked by The
Maurice’s Jubilee, Monday 4 – Saturday 9 February, 7.30pm; Thursday – Saturday, 8pm; matinees: Wednesday & Saturday, 2.30pm Maurice, a retired jeweller, living in a bungalow in Penge, is expecting a visit from the Queen. Sixty years ago, when he took charge of the crown jewels on the eve of the coronation, she promised to find him, should
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she ever reach her diamond jubilee and he his 90th birthday. Maurice is now 89 and failing fast. Will either of them make it? Maurice’s Jubilee is a funny and poignant exploration of one man’s enduring commitment to a dream. Three distinguished actors – Julian Glover, Sheila Reid and Nichola McAuliffe – join forces in this new comedy which was one of the highlights of the 2012 Edinburgh Festival.
suffocating intensity of his famous father’s presence. This tenderly-written play does not promote or condemn conflict, but instead weighs family loyalties and national duty in the balance. My Boy Jack
St Saviours Road, Bath. Box office tel: 01225 463362 www.rondotheatre.co.uk
Sawclose, Bath. Box office tel: 01225 448844. www.theatreroyal.org.uk The Visiting Company Season
Robert Newman’s Theory of Evolution: Work in Progress, Wednesday 30 January, 8pm
Firing Blanks, Thursday 10 – Saturday 12 January, 8pm
Peacock & Gamble: Don’t Even Want To Be On Telly Anyway, Friday 18 January, 8pm Comedy nice boys, Ray and Ed, return with another show full of fun, idiocy and handsomeness, live on stage. They were Chortle Comedy Award nominees in 2011 and 2012 and are from Radio 4 Extra and Russell Howard’s Good News.
Stitching, Friday 25 & Saturday 26 January, 8pm Stuart and Abby love each other madly but when Abby discovers she is pregnant, the choices they make will haunt them forever. Stitching follows the dangerously dark and inventive games that the couple play to try and reconnect. Testing each other, they move between reality and fantasy, their visceral poetry and physicality culminating in a truly shocking ending.
T h e M i s s i o n T h e a t re 32 Corn Street, Bath. Bath Box Office tel: 01225 463362 www.missiontheatre.co.uk
Join Rob as he tries out material in advance of a major new UK comedy tour. Watch it evolve in front of your very eyes.
K o m ed i a 22-23 Westgate Street, Bath. Box office tel: 0845 293 8480 www.komedia.co.uk/bath
Krater Comedy Club, Saturday 5, 12, 19 & 26 January, doors at 6.30pm, show at 8.30pm This is Komedia’s weekly comedy club (awarded Best Comedy Venue in the West and Wales at the 2012 Chortle Comedy Awards). Watch three great stand-ups and a compere in the decadent vintage interior. Wine and dine from the Komedia Canteen menu while enjoying the show. 18+
The Metropolitan Opera Encores: Maria Stuarda, Sunday 20 January, 7.30pm Fresh from her triumph in the Met’s film The Enchanted Island, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato takes on the virtuosic bel canto role in this film about the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots. Having scored a major success with his production of Anna Bolena, director David McVicar now turns to the second opera of Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy, which explores regal characters at fateful moments in their lives. All ages welcome and tickets are available from The Little Theatre.
My Boy Jack, Tuesday 15 – Saturday 19 January, 7.30pm Next Stage Theatre Company presents My Boy Jack by Olivier Award-winning actor and playwright David Haig, offering an intimate portrait of one family’s complex and divided experience through a war and its painful aftermath. Patriotism is high in the early days of World War One and popular writer Rudyard Kipling is one of its most passionate and eloquent voices. He is immensely proud of his son John ‘Jack’ Kipling, who is determined to join the war effort despite being underage and extremely short-sighted. However, Jack’s intentions are not based on his duty to King and Country – he simply wants to escape the
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Komedia Bath is proud to host a night that gives local artists the chance to get up and perform. Whether they regularly perform or are new to stand-up, all are welcome and an excellent mixture of music, comedy and the spoken word is the norm.
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Having a baby is complicated. It’s even tougher when you need another man’s sperm. Richard is infertile. Kate, a fierce-witted teenager he meets on a park bench is an unlikely therapist. The gentle strumming of a busker (music from Fine Chisel) underscores two people’s intimate, important stories.
Open Mic Night, Monday 28 January, 7.30pm – midnight
Silly Songs of Shakespeare, Thursday 31 January, 8pm Originally commissioned by Theatre Royal Bath’s Shakespeare’s Unplugged, Silly Songs of Shakespeare is a show that does what it says on the tin: there are songs, they are silly and they are based on Shakespeare. Prior to a national tour, the show includes new songs, new jokes, new routines and a much-improved interval. Spend an evening with Fearg & The Sonnettes while they serenade you with hilarious synopsongs of some of Will’s most famous works and illuminate a weird corner of Shakespeare’s world with their witty and catchy tunes.
P ound A r ts Pound Pill, Corsham, Wiltshire. Box office tel: 01249 701628 www.poundarts.org.uk
Spread A Little Happiness, Friday 25 January, 7.30pm This is a Salisbury Playhouse production on tour. From the racy refrains of the music hall and the stirring anthems of war, to the blockbuster musicals of the 80s, Britain boasts a roll call of songwriters expert in raising the spirits, touching hearts and nurturing national pride.
M er l i n T h e a t r e Bath Road, Frome. Box office tel: 01373 465949 www.merlintheatre.co.uk
Jo Caulfield: Better the Devil you Know, Saturday 19 January, 7.45pm
Maria Stuarda
Jo is star of Radio 4’s critically-acclaimed It’s That Jo Caulfield Again and has recently been seen on Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Mock the Week, Have I Got News For You and The Apprentice: You’re Fired. Expect razor-sharp observations and scandalous one-liners as Jo asks: Why are drunken girlfriends so much fun? Is friendliness overrated? She continues with stories about humiliating herself in public. JANUARY 2013
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Wiltshire Music Centre new season The spring/summer season features an eclectic mix of musical treats and dynamic artists. Here are just a few of many highlights: • Bradford Roots Acoustic Music Festival, Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 January Enjoy a fantastic celebration of Bradford on Avon’s vibrant acoustic music scene, with two days of live music on four stages including jazz, folk, blues and classical music. £10 per day or £15 weekend ticket. • Mark Padmore & Roger Vignoles, Wednesday 13 February, 7.30pm Two celebrated artists mark the start of Wiltshire Music Centre’s Britten 100 celebration on the centenary of acclaimed composer Benjamin Britten, with an elegant, beautifully sung Schubert and Britten recital. Tickets £24/£12 under 18s. • Black Voices, Saturday 27 April, 7.30pm Of truly outstanding quality, Black Voices brings African and Disapora music with an all-female a cappella ensemble. Tickets £20/£18 under 18s. Wiltshire Music Centre, Ashley Road, Bradford on Avon. Box office tel: 01225 860100 or visit: www.wiltshiremusic.org.uk
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Courtney Pine
Jazz at The Vaults, Thursday 10 January, 8pm
Courtney Pine: House of Legends, Friday 25 January, 7.30pm
Jazz Club, St James Wine Vaults, Bath. Tickets £5/£4, tel: 01225 310335 James Morton plays sax with the JazzHouse Trio and DJ Tony Clark. You may have heard him on Jazz FM recently, now you can see him live.
Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford-on-Avon. Box office tel: 01225 860100 or visit: www.wiltshiremusic.org.uk Launching his latest album, House of Legends, Courtney Pine CBE brings together musicians from Africa, the Caribbean and Europe for a vibrant and exhilarating mix of merengue, ska, mento and calypso. Arguably the country’s best-known saxophonist, this very personal project reflects the truly multi-cultural viewpoint of a hugely popular artist.
Peter King’s 60th Birthday Concert, Saturday 12 January, 6.15pm Bath Abbey, Bath. Admission free Bath Abbey’s director of music, Peter King, will be celebrating his 60th birthday (26 years of which have been devoted to the Abbey) by doing what he loves. This promises to be a wonderful evening filled with organ music of the highest calibre. There will be a collection on the night and all proceeds will go to MacMillan Cancer Care, Dorothy House and the Genesis Trust.
Bath Spa University Opera, Saturday 19 January, 7.30pm Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford-on-Avon. Box office tel: 01225 860100 or visit: www.wiltshiremusic.org.uk Bath Spa University presents Mozart’s The Magic Flute, one of the most widely-loved operas of all time in a fresh new production. Combining fairy tales, farce and philosophy with spell-binding music, this performance promises to both mesmerise and entertain. Bath Spa University’s department of music is large enough, with 450 students, to take on ambitious performance projects such as this, as it did with the British premiere of Satyagraha.
Sinfonia Viva, Sunday 27 January, 7.30pm Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford-on-Avon. Box office tel: 01225 860100 or visit: www.wiltshiremusic.org.uk Sinfonia Viva performs Strauss’ Metamorphosen, composed during the darkest days of war it expresses his profound grief at the tragic destruction of German culture under the Nazis, as well as works from Mahler, Mozart and Stravinsky.
Vocal Works Gospel Choir, Saturday 23 February, 7.30pm Kingswood Theatre, Fonthill Road, Bath. Tickets £12/£8, tel: 01225 463362 or visit: www.bathboxoffice.org.uk This will be an uplifting, high-energy show from the inspirational Vocal Works Gospel Choir who are based in the south. They will perform the best soul and gospel tracks from the movies, including Sister Act, The Commitments, Blues Brothers and many more.
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DAZZLING YOUNG ARTISTS CORDELIA WILLIAMS
CLAIRE JONES
“I cannot imagine a more perfect performance….superb!” Antony Hopkins
“a sensitivity and panache that enchants the senses.” BBC Music Magazine
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IVES, Variations on America RAVEL, Valses nobles et sentimentales GERSHWIN, Rhapsody in Blue ˇ DVORÁK, Symphony No. 9, From the New World Jason Thornton, conductor tickets £28/21/15/ (£5 unreserved)
Including works by BRITTEN, DEBUSSY, ELGAR, GRIEG, DELIBES, PUCCINI, ˇ MASCAGNI and DVORÁK Jason Thornton, conductor £25/20/15 all unreserved
In February, Cordelia Williams, Piano winner of BBC Musician 2006, joins the Bath Philharmonia in the jazzy and daredevil Rhapsody in Blue. ˇ Add the raucous and witty Variations on America and Dvorák’s masterpiece, the lyrical New World Symphony, and it’s a concert not to be missed. Former Royal Harpist Claire Jones performs with the orchestra in March, playing works from her first album, The Girl with the Golden Harp. Released by Classic FM, it is still in the top 10 selling albums. The concert will include the pieces chosen by the Duchess of Cambridge for her wedding, and Claire will also talk about her instrument and what it was like having the Prince of Wales as her boss! For Tickets: Bath Box Office Tel. 01225 463362 • www. bathboxoffice.org.uk For more information, call the Bath Philharmonia at 01225 444 153 or visit us at www.bathphil.co.uk
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WHAT’Son OTH ER EVENTS – listed by date Circuit: A Light Labyrinth, Until 9 January The Holburne Museum, Great Pulteney Street, Bath. Tel: 01225 388588 or visit: www.holburne.org This is your last chance to see the light installation Circuit: A Light Labyrinth – a completely new artwork by Martin Richman and Charlie Kerr. Visitors are able to walk through delicate strands of different coloured light in a web-like maze of light and sound.
Roman Baths Tunnel Tours, Monday 14 – Sunday 20 January, 10am Roman Baths, Stall Street, Bath. To book tickets tel: 01225 477779 Discover the hidden Roman, Georgian and Victorian history of the site.
History Tour & Afternoon Tea, Tuesday 22 January, 3pm Ston Easton Park, Ston Easton, near Bath. £25 per person, tel: 01761 241631 or visit: www.stoneaston.co.uk Join the duty manager on a tour of the beautiful house and learn a little about its detailed history. The house has a magnificent interior and boasts an enviable collection of antiques and curios. After the tour relax and
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enjoy a decadent full afternoon tea in one of the drawing rooms. History Tour & Afternoon Tea
unearthed a fascinating compendium of memories from surviving veterans whose vital contribution to the war effort was previously shrouded in secrecy. The Secret Listeners chronicles the history and achievements of a remarkable group of men and women.
Life Drawing Workshops, Saturday 26 January, Saturday 2 March & Saturday 23 March, 10.30am – 4.30pm Historical Association Lecture, Thursday 24 January, 7.30pm Bath Society Meeting Room, Green Park Station, Bath. Tel: 01225 812945 The Bath branch of the Historical Association welcomes the Rt Rev Dom Aidan Bellenger, Abbot of Downside Abbey, who will speak on the English Benedictines since the Reformation.
Literary Event: The Secret Listeners, Friday 25 January, noon Theatre Royal, Sawclose, Bath. Tickets £22.50 including lunch, £10 to listen only. Box office tel: 01225 448844 This literary event with Sinclair McKay looks at how the ‘Y’ service intercepted German codes for Bletchley Park. Sinclair McKay has
Bath Artists’ Studios, The Old Malthouse, Comfortable Place, Upper Bristol Road, Bath. £35 per day, tel: 01225 482480 or visit: www.felicityromabowers.co.uk A whole day of life drawing with a variety of lengths of poses, experiments and exercises to sharpen perceptions and encouragement to use a wide range of media. Any level of experience is welcome; from absolute beginners to experienced artists. Life Drawing Workshops
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OLD BANK ANTIQUE CENTRE 14- 17 Walcot Buildings, London Road, Bath
Our series of photographic portraits by Neill Menneer shows Bath people at work
Jeremy Seal Travel writer ’m a travel writer with a lifelong interest in Turkey. But while I’ve travelled the length and breadth of that wonderful country, the reams of words on Turkey which I’ve produced for books, magazines, newspapers and websites have in recent years been written in the little timber cabin at the bottom of my garden in Bath; a place of essential solitude, with walls of spruce wood, a desk and computer, an old globe, a comfy leather chair and shelves groaning with guidebooks, maps and travel books. Among these books are mine; my most recent one, Meander, was about a journey I took in a canoe down Turkey’s original winding river while another, A Fez of the Heart, was about travels in search of the same country’s national hat. So you may have guessed that though the view from my cabin window is of an ageing apple tree and, if I strain hard enough, the roofs of Camden Crescent, what I’m really picturing in the course of the working day are minarets and ruined temples above Mediterranean shorelines and rockhewn chapels painted with frescoes bright after a thousand years. I got hooked on Turkey decades ago when I taught there for a year. These days I’m back there a couple of times a year to top up on inspiration. These trips tend to take place in the spring and autumn, even occasionally in the winter when inland regions of Turkey like Cappadocia, with its weird lunar landscapes, are cloaked in snow and in my opinion are at their most enchanting. I tend to run out of writing steam by the mid-afternoon; that’s when I abandon visions of Turkey and replace them with actual views of the gorgeous valleys around Bath. With the dog I can do a circuit of Charlcombe, or of Primrose Wood above Kingswood, or get down to the canal, and be back at home within the hour. I like the fact that Bath stops especially abruptly on the north side, so I don’t have to walk through endless industrial estates to escape it. I especially like the warm light of Bath’s winter windows. I sometimes wonder if my professional interests are a little obsessive; most travel writers I know – there’s a few of us around Bath – seem interested in assignments which widen their knowledge of the world while I appear content with jobs which deepen my understanding of the same place. Nor is the habitual solitude necessarily a good thing; there’s a fine line, as any writer knows, between developing a distinctive voice and a downright doolally one. The possibility is that I may finally go nuts. That being so, I can only hope that my dear family and friends, the lot I play football with on Monday evenings and my fellow book club members among them, will do the right thing by me; frog-march me back to the cabin, lock me in and throw away the key, leaving me free at least to dream of Mediterranean shorelines.
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Voted in the top 50 Antiques Shops in Great Britain, in 2010, by the Independent on Sunday. OLD BANK ANTIQUES CENTRE 14-17 Walcot Buildings, London Road, Bath. BA1 6AD Situated on the London Road, (A4) just a short walk from the top of Walcot Street. Old Bank Antiques is the largest retailer of antiques in Bath. A hoarders’ paradise, fifteen dealers with showrooms spread through four shops with everything from 17th century furniture to 1970s retro. Professional advice always available. Customer parking at the rear, accessed via Bedford Street. Open 7 days a week. Weekdays 10 - 6 pm. Sundays 11 - 5 pm. Visit our website www.oldbankantiquescentre.com Tel 01225 338813 / 469282. email: alexatmontague@aol.com
PORTRAIT: Neill Menneer at Spirit Photographic www.capturethespirit.co.uk
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ARTSgardens &EXHIBITIONS CITY Nathan Ford, Reuben II
A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE Madeleine Town, Untitled
Royal United Hospital Combe Park, Bath. www.ruh.nhs.uk/art
18 January – 17 April
▲ MIXED EXHIBITION BY GALLERY ARTISTS
PAINTED POMP: ART AND FASHION IN THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE
Beaux Arts 12 – 13 York Street, Bath. Tel: 01225 464850 www.beauxartsbath.co.uk
BOB RUDD Victoria Art Gallery By Pulteney Bridge, Bath. Tel: 01225 477233 www.victoriagal.org.uk
5 – 26 January Exhibiting artists include: Simon Allen, Jennifer Anderson, Jackie Anderson, Akash Bhatt, Nathan Ford, Naomi Frears, Tim Garwood, Mark Johnston, Elisa McLeod, Anthony Scott, Helen Simmonds and Deborah van der Beek.
Until 20 January Born in East Anglia, Bob Rudd studied at the Bath Academy of Art and settled in the west country. Widely recognised as a superlative exponent of watercolour, he is inspired by landscape from the Isles of Scilly to the north of Scotland. Mountains, rivers, rocky coastlines and the sea are favourite subjects, captured in strong colours.
PONTUS CARLE
Adam Gallery 13 John Street, Bath. Tel: 01225 480406
2 – 26 January The Adam Gallery presents works by Pontus Carle, a contemporary Swedish artist living between Paris and Berlin. He has exhibited internationally, including in New York. Pontus Carle, Five Thirty Five
Madeleine Town and Sally Muir have exhibited together several times and their approaches complement each other’s work. Madeleine’s paintings are neo-romantic, dreamlike landscapes which feature birds and wild animals. Sally’s are large charcoal drawings of dogs on paper, some imagined, some real. Also on display will be work from textile artists Kim Francis, Tabitha Stewart, Jessica Shoemack, Sammy-Jo Stephenson and Bronwen Gwillim.
Elizabeth Rollins-Scott, Guardian Angel 3
The Holburne Museum Great Pulteney Street, Bath. Tel: 01225 388 569
26 January – 6 May Nine full-length Jacobean portraits by William Larkin have been lent to the Holburne by English Heritage. This exhibition brings them together with Jacobean dress and live interpretation to explore art and fashion.
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ARTS&EXHIBITIONS KOO WAI BONG The Museum of East Asian Art 12 Bennett Street, Bath. Tel: 01225 464640 www.meaa.org.uk
100 UNDER £500 Maggie Matthews, A Closer Look
26 January – 30 June In this exhibition, Transpose: Ink Paintings by Koon Wai Bong, the artist draws inspiration from the Museum of East Asian Art’s collection and creates new works that reflect interesting aesthetic notions embraced by the traditional Chinese literati. Koon pushes the boundaries of traditional Chinese ink painting, while immersing in the tradition of brush and ink, he also remains open to artistic media and notions from various cultures. Although his paintings have an obvious Chinese flare, they are indeed hybrids of the Chinese medium and western ideas of artistic expression. JO WHALEY
▲ Hilton Fine Art 5 Margarets Buildings, Bath. Tel: 01225 311311 www.hiltonfineart.com
ROGER MAYNE
Until 27 January This is an exhibition featuring 100 original paintings, ceramics and jewellery, including work by: Louise Balaam, David Brayne, Richard Burel, Peter Davies, Anna Gardiner, Rachael Kantaris, Jason Lilley, Teresa Pemberton and Salliann Putman.
HEADS & TAILS Edgar Modern Bartlett Street, Bath. Tel: 01225 443746 www.edgarmodern.com
9 January – 23 February This is a mixed exhibition of figurative, animal and bird studies in a variety of media.
Victoria Art Gallery By Pulteney Bridge, Bath. Tel: 01225 477233 www.victoriagal.org.uk
Jo Whaley, Noctuid
Fox Talbot Museum Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. Tel: 01249 730459 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lacock
26 January – 7 April
Until 24 March American photographer Jo Whaley is holding her first British exhibition at the Fox Talbot Museum which showcases her photographs of individual insects close-up on backgrounds which she has created. Some of the insects are live, some are mounted and she picks a background for them which echoes their form, this is sometimes a painting, an object or an old photograph.
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Roger Mayne, Gillian Ayres 1962
Carl Melegari, Stag Isi
This is the first museum show for 22 years of a major photographer at Bath & North East Somerset Council-run Victoria Art Gallery. Born in 1929, Roger Mayne photographed London’s street life in the 1950s, capturing its vigour and poverty. Later he photographed his own children and people he observed on his travels. His many friendships with artists influenced his approach and resulted in telling portraits plus a photo essay on the Bath Academy of Art. This show surveys his career and includes rare vintage prints for sale. There is a free tour of the exhibition with manager Jon Benington on Friday 22 February at 1pm. Also on show are watercolours by Bob Rudd and new paintings by Katie Sims from 26 January until 7 April.
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AN ITALIAN LEGACY In the days before photography Italian plaster cast figure makers plied their trade, Peter Malone looks at the lives of some of the craftsmen who worked in Bath
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friend visiting from London remarked, as we passed one such business, that modern city status depended not so much on the presence of a cathedral, as a tattoo parlour; similarly, 19th century, city status could have been conferred by the presence of Italian plaster cast figure makers. These practitioners of a now largely defunct trade left their homes in Tuscany, throughout the 19th century, to seek employment in Europe and beyond. Arriving in groups at London or Dover, with their moulds and the tools of their trade, they spread throughout the country. Most returned to Italy after a couple of years but many stayed on, including four who were associated with Bath. What is now The Video Front, Terrace Walk, (then 5 The Walks) was from 1837 to 1848, the workshop of John Anthony Tognieri. He married Eliza Martin at St James’s Church in 1828 and first appeared in the 1830 Bath directory, trading at 4 New Orchard Street. His advert from the 1837 directory gives an idea of his output. Notable are the lamp bearing figures, (of vestal virgins), which held aloft colza (rape seed oil) lamps. In common with most others in his trade, he was available to take life or death masks, a practice only gradually displaced by photography. Despite the unclear phrasing, it seems that he could incorporate either form into a portrait bust. It is possible that he may have worked as a moulder for the Bath sculptor Lucius Gahagan, who had the house next door to Tognieri in Terrace Walk, until 1828. In 1840, his wife died and with four surviving children to care for, he married Arabella Carpenter, age 19. In all probability, Tognieri was employing two brothers, Pellegrino and Giovanni Mazzei who had arrived from Tuscany in 1837. The latter, in accommodation at the King’s Head, Lilliput Alley, in 1843, married Arabella’s sister, Mary. The couple then moved to Holborn, London, an area noted for its Italian castmakers, where Mary died in 1846. Tognieri’s business, despite being subject to debt proceedings in 1845, continued until 1850, when it could be found at 11 John Street, on a site now occupied by Hall and Woodhouse. In the 1851 census, Arabella was head of a household containing four children and one servant, at the river end of Cornwell Terrace, Walcot. Her status and occupation of baker, makes it clear that her husband was no longer part of the family. He was then living at Holborn with a daughter from his first marriage and gave his occupation as that of artist. In 1861 he was on his own at 7 Orchard Street, Bath. His final address was 3 Hetling Court, where he died in 1870, aged 68. His death certificate describes him as a master model maker. He was buried in an unmarked grave in the Catholic part of the Abbey cemetery. Giovanni Mazzei moved to Bristol where, re-united in trade with his brother Pellegrino, he married Mary Ann Moffet in 1852. What until now reads as a fairly standard tale of Victorian poverty and death, familiar to readers of Dickens and Mayhew, takes a bizarre turn in a newspaper article of 1866, titled Shocking Death of a Child from Intoxication. The inquest into the death of Mary Magdalene Mazzei, ‘daughter of an Italian image maker, living at No 2 Tippett’s Court, Horsefair’, reported that the unfortunate child, age 13, while in the care of Bristol Infirmary, for a condition of partial paralysis, and contrary to hospital rules, was given cheese and a three ounce bottle of port by her mother. This was thought to have aggravated her condition, causing rupture of a bloodvessel in her brain, leading, in turn, to death by apoplexy. By 1871, Mazzei had returned to Bath with his wife and two children, to premises at 4 Bridewell Lane. His final
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address was 12 Avon Street, before his death the following year, age 55, and his last resting place, the Catholic cemetery. Stefano Pieroni arrived at Dover in 1837 and made for London where he married Rebekah Moore at Hoxton on Christmas Day, 1843. It is probable that he was working for his brother, Pietro, a figure maker at Saffron Hill, Holborn. On his wedding certificate, he claims the occupation of artist. The 1850 Bath directory contains an entry for Pieroni and Elliott, dyers, 26 Broad Street (now a tattoo parlour). Dyeing soon gave way to plaster casting and by 1852 he was thus engaged at 4 Bath Street. The timing is curious; did he acquire the moulds of the defunct castmaker Tognieri? His advert in the 1854 Bath directory proclaims a similar repertoire to that of his predecessor but in line with technological developments, the vestal virgins are now rigged for gas. Another possible source for the moulds is the brother, Pietro, in London; he acquired his son as an assistant. There were also Pieronis engaged in castmaking in Liverpool for most of the century and briefly at Bristol and Hull.
he was available to take life or ❝ death masks, a practice only gradually displaced by photography ❞ He kept these premises until the 1870s, diversifying into the supply of beer by 1866, and becoming a hotelier, to the exclusion of castmaking by 1874. Plaster is subject to breakage and changes in fashion; very few of the casts made throughout the century (and there must have been hundreds of thousands) have survived. I have yet to find anything made by the castmakers discussed above but Pieroni, who also possessed sculptural skills, did endow Bath with the fountain now located (in front of Tognieri’s old shop) in Terrace Walk, formerly in Stall Street and the large flat urn next to the
LOYAL GIFT: the statue of Queen Victoria was paid for by the women of Bath and made by sculptor Andrea Carlo Lucchesi PICTURE: courtesy of www. bathintime.co.uk
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LEAVING THEIR MARK: left to right, Andrea Carlo Lucchesi in his studio, the statue of Bladud on top of the fountain in Stall Street (now in Bog Island) and a plaster vestal virgin complete with lamp
coach stop at Royal Avenue is also his; look hard at both pieces and you will see his inscribed name. More recently, the statue of Bladud which originally surmounted the fountain, has found a place in Parade Gardens whence it can gaze wistfully at its former plinth. Pieroni, however, failed to gain any sort of memorial for himself after his death in 1900, as a widower of 81 living at Barton Street; he too went to an unmarked grave in the Catholic cemetery. The most polished production by any of these Italians is the Portland stone statue of Queen Victoria, high on the side of the eponymous art gallery. Installed in 1901, it was the work of
Andrea Carlo Lucchesi, 1860-1925, an established sculptor who showed regularly at the Royal Academy. He was commissioned by ‘the women of Bath’ who raised subscriptions to the required amount of £400. Lucchesi came from a family of castmakers based in Euston, originally from Tuscany. There were further castmakers of this name (indicative of their regional origin) in Holborn, Cambridge, South London (until the 1950s) and Paris. Oddly enough, the area around Terrace Walk retains an Italian flavour through at least three businesses, dedicated to hairdressing, pizzas and ice cream. Tognieri would have felt at home. ■
Henrietta House, Bath Imagine a secret place in Bath that even Miss Jane A. would have appreciated and commended. Tucked away at 33 Henrietta Street, just round the corner from Pulteney Bridge and the centre of Bath, you will find our Grade One double fronted Georgian townhouse. Step into a world of quiet beauty, good service and elegant surroundings, so whether you come to Bath for its Museums, or the Rugby or the Spa or just to wander its elegant Georgian Streets and shop in its many boutiques, Henrietta House will make sure you are well looked after during your stay. We are in a quiet central location (with valet parking available), we offer boutique accommodation in 17 tastefully renovated rooms. Every room has ensuite facilities and has been individually decorated to provide a mix of traditional elegance and modern comfort. Please contact us if you have any specific requirements. We are a 10 minute walk from the train and bus stations. A spacious, top-floor, family suite comprised of two bedrooms, sitting room, kitchen and bath is also available by contacting us directly. All room prices include breakfast and our Chef Juergen, produces superb breakfasts with something for everyone. Remember to use the coupon below to book directly and get a 10% discount until the first day of Spring, the 21st of March 2013.
10% off voucher valid until 21st March, 2013 Henrietta House- 33 Henrietta Street Bath- BA2 6LR Tel- +44 (0)1225 632632 www.henriettahouse.co.uk
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Dental expert turns lawyer Bath has seen a dramatic rise in the number of patients complaining about their dental treatment. A recent report by the Dental Complaints Service revealed the number of complaints about private dental treatment has risen by 17 per cent, from 1,559 complaints in Dr Chris Evans 2010-11 to 1,887 complaints in 2011-12. These related mainly to crowns (16 per cent), full and partial dentures (15 per cent), fillings (14 per cent), root canal (nine per cent) and implants (nine per cent). As a result Bath-based law firm Withy King has recruited a former dentist to join its dental negligence practice. Dr Chris Evans, who worked as a dentist for 14 years before qualifying as a solicitor, has joined Withy King which has experienced a 200 per cent increase in enquiries relating to sub-standard dental treatment. Withy King is currently dealing with over 50 enquiries a month from dental patients. Compensation for dental negligence is also rising; one recent claim handled by Withy King was settled for £60,000. Dr Evans said: “I know only too well the devastating physical and psychological effects that sub-standard dentistry and poor dental management can have on people’s lives, having had to undertake corrective dentistry during my career to rectify other dentists’ mistakes. I became interested in the law fairly early on in my career and it got to the point where I just knew it was what I wanted to do.” Dr Evans studied dentistry at Kings College School of Medicine and Dentistry in London. He had an interest in anxious and “phobic” patients, medically compromised patients and periodontal disease.
SOMETHING BORROWED: The Fashion Museum in Bath has been given an unusual wedding dress made by designer Sanyukta Shrestha largely from 30-year-old newspapers. The Pippa wedding gown will not be on general display but it will be accessible to students using the world-renowned museum’s study facilities. The council owned museum has more than 80,000 objects and garments, dating right back to Elizabethan times and is a valuable resource for historians, textile and fashion students.
Bath’s caring professions will come under national scrutiny this month when staff who work for Sirona Care & Health, a State run not-for profit organisation, will be seen on television in a new documentary series. Nursing The Nation follows district nurses on their rounds visiting different homes across the country, creating intimate, affectionate portraits of their diverse patients and their inspiring ability to grasp life in the face of adversity. The first episode is due to transmit on ITV1 at 8.30pm on Thursday 3 January and features two nurses from the Bath area. Janet Rowse, who is chief executive of Sirona Care & Health, which provides publicly funded community health and adult social services in Bath and North East Somerset and beyond, said: “The community staff who care for and support people in their own homes provide a vital but largely invisible service. They work with people at what can be the most difficult times in their lives making sure they feel safe and cared for. “Sometimes they can help people back to health, at other times they care for those at the end of their lives. I am immensely proud of the work of the Sirona community teams and delighted that this programme will give an insight into the amazing work they do.” The filming with Sirona involved community staff across Bath, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Keynsham and Chew Valley. Sirona was set up in October 2011 to provide health and social care services.
Records from city’s oldest church preserved Records from Bath’s oldest church, St Mary’s at Charlcombe, have been placed in Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Bath Record Office. The churchwardens of St Mary’s Church, Charlcombe have placed on loan a collection of historic papers relating to the charters of Charlcombe parish, from around 1915, and documents on the patronage of Charlcombe church from 1690-1853. Colin Johnston, Bath & North East Somerset Council’s principal 32 THEBATHMAGAZINE
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archivist, said: “As well as the parchment deeds, there is also a substantial collection of notes made by Thomas Southwood Bush – a
19th century Bath archaeologist – who owned land in Charlcombe. We will carry out Charlcombe parish’s wishes by making them available for research by local historians, students, writers, lecturers or indeed anyone interested in the history of this part of Bath and North East Somerset.” The archives include notes which Thomas Bush made for lectures given to the Bath Literary and Scientific Institution in 1916 on the early records of Charlcombe and its people.
A number of documents found in Charlcombe Rectory record the advowson (or right to nominate the priest) and the connection between the rector and the mastership of King Edward’s School from 16901853. The Bath Record Office is open for research from Tuesday to Friday each week, except the third full week of the month. For more information, contact the Bath Record Office at the Guildhall, tel: 01225 477421 or email: archives@bathnes.gov.uk.
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COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE THE AMICABLE APPROACH TO UNTYING THE KNOT W
hen it comes to divorce or separation, when given the option most couples would prefer to settle matters respectfully and privately outside of the courtroom. For this reason, increasing numbers of separating couples are choosing to take part in a non-litigious process called ‘Collaborative Practice’ in order to achieve a settlement that best meets the specific needs of both parties and their families. It also allows couples to maintain full control of the process by working together as a team, with trained lawyers to resolve disputes respectfully rather than placing matters in the hands of a Judge. So how does Collaborative Practice work? • You and your partner each instruct a specialist collaborative family lawyer; • You both agree with your lawyers to work together as a team and to resolve issues without going to Court; • There is a prompt, honest and open disclosure of all information; • Other expertise can be enlisted to help as part of the team such as accountants, financial advisers and counsellors; • Settlement is reached in “face to face” meetings, (two of you and two lawyers); • You and your partner remain in control of the process; • Your lawyers are present to provide support, legal advice and guidance; • Once an agreement is reached your lawyers will put it into effect. The divorce can be finalised and a Consent Order sent to the Court for approval or the Separation Agreement signed by you both. Is this the right option for you? Consider the following: • You want a civilised, respectful resolution of the issues; • You would like to keep open the possibility of friendship with your partner down the road; • You and your partner will be co-parenting your children together and you want the best co-parenting relationship possible; • You want to protect your children from the harm associated with litigated disputes; • You and your partner have a circle of friends or extended family in common that you both want to remain connected to; • You have ethical or spiritual beliefs that place a high value on taking personal responsibility for handing conflicts with integrity; WWW.THEBATHMAGAZINE.CO.UK
• You value control and autonomous decision making and do not want to hand over decisions about restructuring your financial and/or child rearing arrangements to a Judge; • You want a more creative and individualised range of choices available to you and your partner for resolving your issues.
How long does the collaborative process take? One of the benefits of the collaborative process is that it’s not dictated by a timetable enforced by the court. So inherently the process can be built around your family’s individual timetable and priorities, as these meetings follow agendas set by you and your partner.
What are the advantages of the Collaborative Practice?
Sometimes only a couple of meetings are needed, in other cases it may be more. Once an agreement is reached, your lawyers will put it into effect, obtaining a court order where needed.
• You keep control of the process yourself without having to go to Court; • The children’s needs are given priority; • You and your partner commit to reaching an agreement through a problem solving approach; • An atmosphere of respect preserves your self esteem; • Open communication allows both of you to express your needs for moving forward and gives you new tools for effective problem solving in the future; • There is full disclosure of the facts and information; • “Face to face” meetings in the presence of lawyers makes negotiations direct and efficient and allows for mutual creative resolutions.
At Mowbray Woodwards we have two collaboratively trained lawyers, Tracey Smith and Meg Moss who regularly assist clients through the collaborative process. If you would like to find out more about how Collaborative Practice could work for you, or you would like to talk to us about another family law matter, we offer a free half hour consultation to enable you to discuss your situation and requirements. To book a first meeting with one of our family law specialists, please telephone 01225 485700 or email family@mowbraywoodwards.co.uk
How does Collaborative Practice differ from mediation? Collaborative practice is very different from mediation because in mediation there is one mutual professional who will help you and your partner together to try and identify issues that you cannot agree on in order to settle your case. Mediation can be challenging where the parties are not on a level playing field with one another because the Mediator is neutral and cannot give any party legal advice and cannot help either side advocate its position. If you have a lawyer they may not be present at the mediation negotiation meeting. Collaborative Law was designed so that each party would have their own legal advice and advocacy built in at all times during the process. Even if one side or the other lacks negotiating skills, financial understanding or is emotionally upset or angry the playing field is levelled by the direct participation of the skilled advocate.
Tracey Smith, Family Partner and Collaborative Practitioner at Mowbray Woodwards Solicitors
Is this process only available for divorce or separation? Collaborative Practice can be adopted usefully in a range of situations, for example where there is the need to negotiate the terms of a prenuptial agreement or cohabitation agreement.
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TAX – 2013 AND BEYOND In this article we focus on just a few of the points announced in the Chancellor’s recent Autumn Statement which will affect individuals and businesses going forward, and we also highlight some of the deadlines approaching and issues for individuals within the Self Assessment system to help you to comply
The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement
• a company director
• Annual Investment Allowance – With effect from 1 January 2013, businesses can potentially invest up to £250,000 in plant and machinery and claim a full deduction against its business profits, although depending on your business’s year-end this allowance may need to be scaled down in 2013 such that only a proportion of the £250,000 may be deductible. (Broadly, up to 31 December 2012 only £25,000 expenditure qualified, so this represents a very significant increase).
• earning more than £100,000 per annum
• Corporation tax rates – For large companies, this will be reduced by a further 1% to 21% from April 2014, bringing the gap between small and large companies even closer together. This means the tax impact of having more than one “commonly controlled” company will become virtually negligible.
• earning either income of £10,000 or more from taxed savings/investments, £2,500 or more from untaxed savings and investments, £10,000 or more gross income or £2,500 or more net rental profit from property. • employed and want to claim expenses of more than £2,500.
targeted are those whom HMRC think are likely to have inadequate records. An initial letter will be sent by HMRC, arranging for you to complete a short questionnaire. If you are concerned with your records, or think you might fall into this category, we can provide you with an initial assessment. Depending on the outcome, we can then help you to put your records onto a sound basis, which might reduce extra follow up time with HMRC and potential penalties in the future.
• receiving Child Benefit (or your partner is) and fall within the new Child Benefit tax charge • 65 or over, and typically receive a reduced agerelated allowance each • receiving income from trusts or estates • due to pay capital gains tax
• Pension contributions - From April 2014 the annual allowance for tax relief on pension contributions for individuals will fall to £40,000 per annum from £50,000. As this reduction does not start until April 2014, there is still time to make the most of the £50,000 limit. • Basic personal allowance – this is going to increase to £9,440 from April 2013, the overall effect being that basic rate tax payers will be marginally better off, but no tax impact for higher rate tax payers. • New High Income Child Benefit tax charge This is intended to be introduced on 7 January 2013 and may apply to certain individuals who earn in excess of £50,000 per annum, and live with a partner. There were some other interesting announcements which may apply to you so please contact us to discuss in more detail if you wish. Tax deadlines and compliance Individuals who are required to file a self assessment tax return for the 2011/12 tax year need to do this by 31 January 2013. Strictly speaking, you will need to file a tax return if you are: • self employed/part of a partnership or LLP WWW.THEBATHMAGAZINE.CO.UK
• Living/working or have lived/worked outside the UK or are non UK domiciled • a trustee Since the 2010/11 tax year, the penalty regime for late filing of returns has toughened, and this continues to apply for 2011/12 tax returns. Whilst a £100 penalty has applied for some time for tax returns that are filed late, in addition to this if the return is filed more than three months late, further penalties can now be charged including a daily penalty for each day the return is late. Please be aware that these penalties will be charged even if you do not have a tax liability. Also, in addition to the above late filing penalties, you will have to pay a surcharge on any tax that remains unpaid at the end of February and July amounting to 5% of the unpaid tax each time. Finally, if you have to complete a tax return because you are self employed, you may not be aware that a redesigned “Business Records Check” initiative was launched by HMRC on 1 November 2012. Poor records can lead to inaccurate tax returns and possibly penalties (in addition to those already mentioned above) and the idea behind this initiative is to help businesses improve their record-keeping. It is early days, but we understand those businesses most likely to be
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Please contact Jon Miles on jm@richardsonswift.co.uk if you wish to discuss any of the above matters in more detailon (01225)325580 or email info@richardsonswift.co.uk if you would like to arrange an initial free no obligation meeting to discuss your specific business and/or personal circumstances and what options might be available to you in the context of the current developments in the tax profession and the public domain.
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Celebrating record year All Hallows Prep School near Shepton Mallet is celebrating a great year, with record pupil numbers and the highest percentage of pupils ever achieving awards to senior schools at the end of the summer term. Headmaster Ian Murphy is widely accredited with taking the school from strength to strength over the past seven years, establishing it as one of the most highly regarded and best independent prep schools in the country. He said: “At the heart of All Hallows’ success is a vision aimed at nurturing each individual and
developing the whole child through cutting edge education, academic excellence and rich and varied experiences, underpinned by the unswerving certainty that Christian values are paramount being reflected in the lives of the whole school community.” Children enjoy a host of sporting activities (including a tennis academy with the LTA Clubmark for excellence), musical opportunities, speech and drama, the Forest School which offers a fresh approach to learning, and a varied Saturday enrichment programme. All Hallows is holding an open
day for prospective parents and pupils on Saturday 26 January. For more information contact:
info@allhallowsschool.co.uk, visit: www.allhallowsschool.co.uk or tel: 01749 881600.
News in brief Head to forge links with US Quakers ■ BEST in Bath, an independent language school based at 1 Chapel Row, Queen Square, has been awarded its accreditation by the British Council, the UK’s gold-standard inspection procedure for language schools. Established in 2010 by principal, Mark Appleton, BEST in Bath takes students from all over the world. Mark says, “It’s fantastic to be recognised for the excellent service we provide our students. Accreditation is the next step in the school’s growth. We’re looking forward to attracting greater numbers of students from more diverse countries to our beautiful city. We’re proud to be a local school run by local people, and we look forward to continuing our work with local Bath companies and families.” ■ Strictly for Kids dance classes begin in Bath this month, giving youngsters the chance to learn ballroom and Latin dances, from the waltz to the cha cha cha and jive. Professional teacher Joanna Whitehead from Viva La Dance, will be working with Aquaterra at the city’s Sports & Leisure Centre and at the New Oriel Hall in Larkhall. There are different classes for 6-11yrs and 12-18yrs. For more details visit: www.vivaladance.co.uk and click on Strictly for Kids. ■ Bathonians are invited to start learning German, Spanish or Chinese, or improving their French or Italian at language classes being run at St Gregory’s Catholic College in Odd Down. There are courses for beginners and for the more experienced. Classes are small and courses begin in January and February, several offer taster sessions. For more details visit: www.languagesinbath.co.uk or tel: 07894 913322.
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Iain Kilpatrick, the headmaster of Sidcot School in Winscombe is this year to forge links with a school in America which teaches President Obama’s daughters. Iain, who took up his role at the 17th Century Quaker school in Somerset in August, is to visit Sidwell Friends School in Maryland, Washington. He said: “I plan to visit because, as Quaker schools, our values are the same. There is so much synergy between the schools; it will be great to exchange ideas.” As well as Barack and Michelle Obama’s daughters, Malia and Sasha, pupils have included the children of Bill Clinton, former Vice-President Al Gore and President Roosevelt as well as the present Vice-President Joe Biden’s grandchildren. For a school built on modest Quaker values, Sidwell Friends School has probably the most powerful parent body on the planet. “Sidwell and Sidcot schools believe that diverse perspectives and meaningful enquiry fuel academic excellence and promote personal growth,” said Ian,“We share the Quaker belief in nurturing the “inner light” in every child and both offer a broad, balanced curriculum that challenges students to step out of their comfort zone and see uncertainty as a source of excitement and promise.” He aims to open up the independent day and boarding school to a wider range of pupils, in line with its inclusive Quaker ethos. Students do not have to be Quakers to come to Sidcot – he believes the school’s philosophy has meaning and relevance to anyone who wants an enlightened, values-based education for their child.
ETHICAL VALUES: headteacher Iain Kilpatrick of Sidcot School is to visit the States
The successful scholarship programme continues for entry in September in the junior and senior schools to broaden access for outstandingly gifted day pupils. Scholarship applications need to be submitted by 25 January 2013. For more information on applying for a scholarship, visit: www.sidcot.org.uk or tel: 01934 843 102. Sidcot opened in 1699 as an independent day and boarding school and is one of only nine in the UK. It has 500 pupils aged three to 18.
Children vote to return to workshops The Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution in Queen Square is continuing its successful hands-on kids workshops into 2013. More than 95 per cent of the children attending the first six events, have given the workshops top marks and all said they want to go back to do more. Andrew Dix, the lead teacher from Paulton Primary school who took 21 of his pupils to the November science workshop said it was fantastic. “It’s filling a great gap,” says Paul Thomas, a BRLSI member. “Children have got loads of activities for art, theatre, literature, sport and play
in Bath. BRLSI wants to raise the profile of science, technology and engineering and inject fun into the really amazing activities that are available for children. It’s providing different and much needed additional adventurous learning.” The next workshop will be on Saturday 12 January from 1pm, when children will be able to get up close to hawks and owls. “We’re going to let the kids find out how and what the flying hunters of the night eat,” said event organiser Roger Moses. Visit: www.brlsi.org/youthactivities, or email: coolbookings@brlsi.org.
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FAMILYfun Miki at the egg theatre
Family Trail at Lacock Abbey
Rapunzel at the egg theatre
WINTER WONDERS IN JANUARY The city has plenty of events and activities on offer for all the family to enjoy this month; from magical theatre to a wintery family walk. Use our guide to help plan quality time with your children
Costume design The Holburne Museum, Great Pulteney Street, Bath. Tel: 01225 388588 www.holburne.org
Painted Pomp Costume Sessions, Every Saturday from 26 January – 4 May, 2pm – 3pm Join one of the gallery educators for a demonstration of the intricacies of 17th century costume as featured in the Painted Pomp: Art and Fashion in the Age of Shakespeare exhibition at the museum. Discover how the costume was worn, how it was made, how much it cost, and learn some Jacobean manners. Two lucky visitors will model replica costumes for each session.
Get some fresh air Lacock Abbey, Lacock, Wiltshire. Tel: 01249 730459 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lacock
Reindeer on Holiday Family Trail, Tuesday 8 January – Thursday 31 January, 11am – 4pm Where do Father Christmas’ reindeer go on holiday? You won’t find live reindeer here, but you will find lots of fun information and jokes
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when you follow the trail to discover where the reindeer do go for a well-earned rest. This is a self-led family trail in the open air and takes around 30 minutes to complete.
Children’s theatre The egg, Theatre Royal Bath. Box office tel: 01225 448844 www.theatreroyal.org.uk
Rapunzel, Saturday 19 January, 11.30am & 3pm Tutti Frutti presents this playful new production of Rapunzel; a story about a girl who is taken away from what she knows and protected from all the things that she loves. Placed high-up in a tower above the world and faced with the challenge of growing-up, she is found alone, dreaming. For ages 3+
Little Red You Know Who, Friday 25 & Saturday 26 January; Friday, 10.30am & 1pm; Saturday, 11.30am & 3pm Taking a well-known traditional story, this spellbinding play for young children follows a magical path through the woods. Freehand Theatre creates a memorable and reassuring journey with its delightful use of puppetry,
colour and specifically-composed music. For ages 3+
Miki, Friday 1 & Saturday 2 February; Friday, 10am & 1.30pm; Saturday, 11.30am & 3pm A long time ago and very far away, Miki, a polar bear and a penguin live in a place where nothing ever grows. One midwinter eve they make a wish and Miki embarks on a magical adventure – in search of a star. For ages 3+
Family theatre Rondo Theatre, Saint Saviour’s Road, Bath. Box office tel: 01225 463362 www.bathboxoffice.co.uk
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Wednesday 16 – Sunday 20 January; Monday – Saturday, 7.30pm; matinees: Saturday & Sunday, 2.30pm Bath Drama presents an enchanting version of C S Lewis’s classic and much-loved children’s book, adapted by Glyn Robbins. Travel with the Pevensie children from the professor’s ancient manor to the magical, snowy world of Narnia, ruled over by the beautiful but evil white witch. On the way the children also come across leopards, whispering trees and Father Christmas.
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ath is well served for international cuisine, with restaurants representing Italian, French, Thai, Indian and even Peruvian styles of cooking – but now the city has its first Scottish restaurant, The Kilted Chef. In the kitchen is award-winning head chef Dougie Bonar, who brings from Edinburgh his passion for ingredients such as the best Scottish beef, fresh lobster, venison and that most Scottish of delicacies, haggis. He’s also a man of many talents, as we discovered during our first visit to the basement restaurant in Kingsmead Square which was formerly Mezzaluna, and before that the acclaimed Moody Goose. We hear that locals are already beating a path to Dougie’s door, partly because of his reputation and partly because word of mouth has spread the word that The Kilted Chef is offering something different. On the night we visited there was a couple on one table celebrating their wedding anniversary and requesting that the chef autograph their celebratory card. On the other side an enthusiastic pair were oohing and aahing their way through a seven course tasting menu and wine flight. It was clear that The Kilted Chef is already registering on the foodies’ radar, despite having only been open a couple of months. There were plenty of moments during our dinner that we did actually say ‘wow!’ as our plates arrived. A little amuse bouche of a piping hot cup of parsnip and sweet potato soup whet the appetite, along with tiny but densely flavoured smoked fish canapés. The warm bread rolls were homemade, and as the meal went on we learned that much of the fish served here is smoked by Dougie himself. He also makes his own haggis, although he also buys it from Edinburgh’s legendary Macsween, the kings of haggis making. A starter of risotto made with the finest smoked haddock and a soft poached egg, made John’s evening – it’s far superior to a similar dish I cook up at home, he pointed out, without malice. I enjoyed a little Somerset goat’s cheese, wrapped in a pancetta parcel, which was sweet and softly creamy, offset by a little blini with horseradish and a red pepper purée with a warm, spicy kick. For our main course we were tempted to try a whole lobster, smoked by the chef himself and served with citrus and fines 46 THEBATHMAGAZINE
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herbes butter, but we were in carnivorous mood, so John opted for a tender fillet steak served in a traditional Rossini style, quite rich but delicious. All main courses are served with vegetables and potatoes included on the large, white plates, which meant my simple courgette and asparagus were good companions to the venison with tiny haggis and black pudding fritters, and lifted by a piquant pink peppercorn sauce. This is food to treat yourself for a special occasion. Our bottle of wine was a very pleasing La Bastille Merlot at £18.50, from a very comprehensive list.
ATTENTION TO DETAIL: main picture, the interior at The Kilted Chef Top, haunch of Scottish venison Below, spun sugar is one of the little flourishes which pleases the eye
It was clear that The Kilted Chef is already ❝registering on the foodies’ radar despite having been open a couple of months ❞ The Kilted Chef offers diners a pre-theatre dinner deal, or a Sunday lunch option from £16.95 for two courses including coffee. The tasting menu, with wines, that our fellow diners were in raptures over, is £75. The a la carte menu, which we enjoyed, ranges from £6.55 to £11.50 for starters, £13.50 to £25.30 (for the lobster) for main courses – that includes the canapés and bread with homemade rosemary oil and unusual caramelised orange vinegar. I wanted to try one of Dougie’s desserts, as he has a selfconfessed sweet tooth and enjoys making elaborate puddings and even the petits four with the coffee are made by his fair hand. I asked Sue, who is the very knowledgable and friendly front-of-house manager, which would be the lightest pudding to try. She was right to recommend a made-in-the-moment sabayon with perfectly ripe mixed berries, served in a Martini glass with a 1960s beehive of beautifully spun sugar topping it off. It was a great combination of lightly creamy, tart fruit and candy brittle sweetness. John, not having a sweet tooth, was more than happy with a plate of homemade crackers, and five well kept cheeses. GMc We hit the high road home, replete and in good spirits. ■
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THE WINE COLUMN Angela Mount, wine and food critic, chooses wines that are lower in alcohol but big in flavour
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ew year is the time that most of us address health issues and vow to exercise, and eat less but better. The same can apply to wine; a glass of a delicious, high quality, rewarding wine is far better than a bottle of something cheap, dilute and characterless. Alcohol levels in wine have been rising in recent years, particularly with the popularity of New World wines, where hotter climates, riper, sweeter grapes, lead to naturally higher alcohol levels. There are lots of pretty powerful wines with alcohol levels of 14.5 – 15%. I’ve been searching out wines which have just as much fruit and character, but with 12% alcohol or under and fewer calories. I would far rather enjoy one glass of any of these than resort to the confected and generally fruitless lower alcohol wines on supermarket shelves. Ruggeri Prosecco Brut Argeo, 11% £12.50 There are lots of cheap, bland Proseccos on the market, but this one is a delight, with gentle bubbles, a delicate fragrance and a soft, creamy style. Dry, but with a lovely edge of candied lemon and peachy fruit. A light, indulgent treat with seafood and fish. La Cadence Ugni Blanc 2011, 11% £5.95 If you’re looking for a simple, fresh, fruity dry white, with an easy-drinking style, at only 11% alcohol, then this is it. With citrus and pears on the nose, it’s a good all purpose white. Lots of baked apple, yellow plum, and lemony flavours abound, and it has a soft, gentle finish. Great with chicken, pork chops with apple, grilled fish, and fruity salads. Bardolino Le Nogare, Bertani 2011, 12% £9.95 This red cherry, herb and cardamom scented red from North East Italy offers freshness, elegance and character. From its limpid cherry red colour to its fresh, vibrant style, it’s a class act from a great producer. Light in style, with low tannins, full of plum and cherry fruit, it’s got a twist of thyme leaves, a hint of spice, and a savoury edge. A perfect, lighter style of red for pasta dishes, herb roasted chicken or even roast beef. Domaine de Vissoux, Beaujolais Cuvee Traditionelle, 12% £11.30 A silky, scented, feminine, delicate, and sublimely elegant wine. If you have rejected Beaujolais because of the nasty, thin, fruitless styles that we often see, trust me and try this one. It’s made with natural yeasts, and the quality shines through. Ripe red fruit aromas waft from the glass, and it is a low tannin, stylish and entrancing red. Pair with gammon, roast chicken, ham salads, and lightly spiced Asian dishes. Via Nova Merlot 2011, 12% £6.40 This is full of soft, plummy fruit, clove and cinnamon spice, with a smooth, velvety style. It’s a food friendly red, with all the smooth, plummy ripeness typical of Merlot, but without that heavy whack of alcohol. Deliciously juicy, with a hint of mocha, and a super smooth texture. This is the wine for winter stews, sausages, or pies.
JANUARY’S CHOICE Wines to go with stir fries and spicy Asian dishes Reichstrat von Buhl Riesling Trocken 2011, 11.3% £11.50 My perfect wine for most spicy dishes. Don’t ignore German Riesling, it produces some of the very best white wines in the world. This is a beautiful example of a dry Riesling, with aromas of honeysuckle and fresh lime, which lead to an explosion of tangy passion fruit and fresh lime streaked fruit flavours. Incredible intensity and purity of fruit.
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NOT TO BE SNEEZED AT Brown’s Folly, affectionately known as the Pepperpot, is one of the highlights of an 11-mile walk mapped out by Andrew Swift to encourage us to get out and stretch our legs
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or our New Year’s walk, we head from Bath down the west side of the Avon valley, before crossing Dundas Aqueduct and returning via Conkwell, Warleigh Woods, Brown’s Folly and Bathford. Heading out of town along Great Pulteney Street, cross at the end and walk up through Sydney Gardens. After crossing the railway, go through a gateway onto the canal towpath. Turn left, go through a tunnel and carry on for 600 metres. When you come to a wooden bridge, cross it, go through a kissing gate (KG) and head up the field. Go through a KG at the top and turn left along the pavement for 500 metres. When you reach the junction with Bathampton Lane, cross the main road, head up the rough lane opposite and go through a KG. Carry on up through another gate, and, when you reach downland, bear left diagonally uphill. Bear left when you meet another path, which eventually joins a sunken way heading down. A few metres further on, cross a stile into the woods on the right (ST775655). For the next two miles, you will be following the Bath Skyline walk, which is well waymarked. After 250 metres, you cross a path heading downhill. This was a tramway, built around 1810 to carry stone down to the canal. The contorted, rocky landscape you pass through as you carry on – the result of centuries of quarrying – was one of Gainsborough’s favourite places to sketch when he lived in Bath. When the path forks, fork left through a KG into Bushey Norwood and carry on alongside the fence. When you reach a wall, go through a KG and bear right across a field. Go through a KG and turn left (ST779642). Just before you reach a road, turn right through a gate. After 40 metres, turn left through another gate and right along the road for 30 metres, before turning left along a footpath. At the next road, turn left for 50 metres before crossing and going through a KG into Rainbow Wood Farm. Follow the fenced-off path through a succession of KGs, before carrying straight on with a wall on your left. Go through another KG and carry straight on (past a Skyline way mark pointing right) to the road. Cross, turn left for 50 metres and then right through a KG (ST776629). Bear left diagonally across a field past Wessex Water’s HQ, and go through a KG. After another KG, you pass an old quarry on the right. Cross a busy road, go over a stile, and follow the path as it curves right past the old Brassknocker Inn and through a KG. Bear left, following the path downhill. At the bottom, the path leads straight onto the busy A36. Cross and turn right before heading down a stepped footpath by the start of the lay-by. At the canal, turn left, cross a bridge and turn right across the aqueduct. Head to the left of a large hut, cross a stile and carry on up another old tramway, crossing another stile part way up. When you meet a cross path at the top, turn left along it (ST790623). Carry on into the hamlet of Conkwell, with its old tea gardens and a fountain head where Conkwellians once washed their clothes, and turn right uphill. At the top, turn left along the road by a postbox. After 350 metres, turn left by a white post along a tarmaced lane through Warleigh Woods (ST795628). After 600 metres, carry on past a stile by a metal gate on the right, but, 150 metres further on, as the lane bears left downhill, turn off it, heading straight on along a footpath into the woods (ST797635). This leads to a clearing with a view across to Claverton and the American Museum. As you carry on, the path starts to head down. When it forks, bear left down a stepped path. At the bottom, turn right through a dry arch built around 1795 and then left up to the road. Walk 50 THEBATHMAGAZINE
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VICTORIAN FOLLY: main picture, Brown’s Folly at the summit of Sally in the Woods
the contorted, rocky ❝ landscape you pass through as you carry on – the results of centuries of quarrying – was one of Gainsborough’s favourite places to sketch
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along a narrow verge for 150 metres, before following a footpath into the woods (ST796645). As you climb, with the land shelving ever more steeply away on the left, look up to see where quarries and caves have been hollowed out of the hillside. The path eventually levels out alongside a wall, which you follow for the next 1,300 metres, ignoring footpaths leading down to the left. After passing a board with information on Brown’s Folly nature reserve, you come to a blue post, one of 13 placed hereabouts by the Bath Geological Society to identify rocks and fossils. Visit: www.people.bath.ac.uk/exxbgs/brownsfolly. When you reach the foot of Brown’s Folly (ST794660), a tower commissioned by a local landowner in 1848 as an
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ENJOY THE SIGHTS: the bustling Kennet and Avon Canal by the Dundas Aqueduct, and the panoramoic views from Brown’s Folly
unemployment relief measure, turn left through a KG and head down a stepped path. At the bottom, two paths head right across grassland. Take the upper one along a ridge with views across Bath. Go through a KG at the end (where there is an impressive cave on the right), and turn left down a steep path. At the bottom, turn right for 15 metres, before turning left down a stepped path. When you reach a T junction, turn left. The path curves up to the left before swinging right downhill. After negotiating rough steps, turn right over a stile (ST791662). Follow a track across the field, heading to the left of a row of houses. Cross a stile, turn left down grass and a short road. Bear right for a few metres, before taking the footpath beside Manor Farm Cottage. After passing the lych gate, cross and carry on down Ostlings Lane. At the bottom is a bus stop where you can, if you wish, catch a bus into Bath. To walk back, cross with care towards the pylon, turn left and cross the footbridge over the By Brook. Just
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before the railway bridge, cross and head up a footpath by the line (ST786670). This takes you over the bridge, down the other side and through a KG. Follow a track diagonally across the field, climbing steps to cross the railway line and going over a stile, before carrying on along a lane. When you reach the canal, carry on along the towpath to head back to Bath. Level of challenge: Muddy stretches, rough and slippery paths, steps and steep slopes. Walking boots essential; walking sticks or poles recommended. ■
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f you’ve made a resolution to lose weight in 2013, it’s time to start thinking about adopting a good exercise regime and a healthy diet. The latter is sometimes the hardest to get to grips with just after Christmas, but to help you on your way there’s a weight loss and detox course starting in Bath, designed to give you the tools, inspiration and knowledge to make lasting changes to your diet and lifestyle. The course will run as a progressive six-week workshop, teaching you to understand how your body works with certain food groups, how to find healthy alternatives and why going hungry is not an option. Led by experienced practitioner Lisa Barnes, it will look at ways to increase your energy levels, stop food cravings and give you optimum health along with how to implement this all into a busy lifestyle. For more information contact Lisa on tel: 01225 830 855, email: lisa@lisabarneshealth.co.uk or visit: www.lisabarneshealth.co.uk
News in Brief • Luxury bath and skincare product company, Molton Brown, has opened a new store on Union Street, Bath, following the closure of its Bond Street store last month. Molton Brown has been in Bath for just over 8 years, but wanted to expand into a bigger space. The new store has an open and inviting feel with three sinks in the middle of the room for customers to try the products. Keep an eye out for some fantastic events and complimentary mini facials and hand and arm massages in store this month.
• Luxury Dead Sea mineral skincare brand Gadi 21 Minerals, has recently launched in Jolly’s on Milsom Street. The range consists of face and body products for both men and women which all include the 21 minerals which are found naturally within the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea Body Scrub (£30) is one of the hero products from Gadi 21 Minerals – it’s a gentle exfoliant which removes dead cells, leaving skin moisturised, renewed and radiant. It contains a sumptuous blend of skin polishing Dead Sea salts wrapped in moisturising botanical and essential oils to refine and resurface the texture of the skin, and vitamins to help stimulate the natural repair process of skin, fight free radicals and leave it protected from climate change. Skin is left hydrated, super smooth and glowing – perfect for warding off dry skin boughts this winter.
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New York apothecary brand Malin & Goetz has introduced glycolic acid pads to its collection of advanced skincare products. The pads buff away bad complexions in just one wipe, leaving skin more even, allowing for the effective absorption of moisturisers, while also delivering a healthier finish to the skin. Find them on sale at Space NK, New Bond Street, Bath, £38.
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If you buy one thing this month let it be the new Jo Malone London Vitamin E Eye Creme (£35 from Harvey Nichols). This luxurious moisturiser helps to reduce the look of fine lines and dark circles while hydrating and conditioning at the same time. It’s a little pot of magic that you won’t want to be without.
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Hiding your hands away in gloves for the last couple of months is no excuse to let your beauty regime slip. Make sure they are always moisturised to prevent dryness and keep them looking their best with Creme de la Mer’s hand treatment, £65 from Jolly’s Bath.
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If you’re suffering from chapped and dry lips because of the cold weather, try the Popcorn lip scrub from Lush (£5.25). Take a small amount of the scrub and apply to lips in a circular motion – the castor sugar will gently buff away any dry flaky skin while the organic jojoba oil will soothe any redness and soreness. It tastes just like popcorn too.
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BODY BLISS Have a full body massage at the Thermae Bath Spa says Rosie Parry – it’s beneficial for both body and mind
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ooking back at the past year, you can often wonder how you managed to do and achieve so much – you feel proud but exhausted and with the turn of the new year you’ve got the January blues and feel run-down and perhaps anxious about what the year ahead might bring – in fact your diary tells you that half the year is already booked up with various events and appointments. This is certainly how I feel and so I booked my tired self into the Thermae Bath Spa in Bath – Britain’s only natural thermal spa with state-of-the-art facilities and treatments – for a traditional, medium pressure full body massage (£58 for 50 minutes). The clean, white interior of the treatment area gave a sense of purity and calm but was in no way clinical or cold. My beauty therapist, Sarah who has eight years experience and has been at Thermae for four, was lovely and before she began the massage we discussed different aspects of my lifestyle and if there were any areas of my body that I had any particular concerns about. This allows you to tailor the treatment to suit your own needs. The bed was comfortable and after a hot towel was pressed on my feet and I had been lightly brushed with a body brush to boost my circulation, my massage began, beginning with my back. Sarah used Pevonia massage emulsion, used by the spa for its pure ingredients, to gently but firmly knead my muscles and release tension. As she worked I could feel myself relax and my tight muscles ease. She worked down onto each leg and then to each arm, and with every limb she massaged it joined the others in their relaxed bliss. I then turned on to my front and Sarah used tension relief gel on my shoulders, which has a cool, soothing effect. And relief it was too as my shoulders loosened and she finished the treatment with a scalp massage. My first thought was that I didn’t want it to end and could I please stay all day, and my second was how peaceful I felt. And as I sat watching the winter sun illuminate the beautiful Georgian buildings outside, a sense of calm came over me and I felt ready and excited for the year ahead. Next time, and this would be a great way to truly pamper yourself, I would combine a treatment with use of the spa facilities with a spa package, such as the Thermae Experience (£189) which sounds utterly indulgent, and there are several treatments that are signature to the Thermae Bath Spa such as the Watsu (£62) which involves being cradled by a therapist and moved around in the mineral-rich waters. It is perhaps too often that us Bathonians see the Thermae spa as more of a tourist attraction than somewhere to go regularly, or for many of us perhaps because it is so conveniently on our doorstop we have never for a reason unknown to ourselves, visited. But I certainly will be a regular after such a beneficial and in my view, affordable massage. ■ Thermae Bath Spa, Hot Bath Street, Bath. Tel: 01225 331234
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10 years younger Known as the “London Lip Queen”, Dr Rita Rakus has made her name as a leading cosmetic doctor through her sensitive approach to aesthetics and her patients Many signs of ageing on the face can be lessoned by the use of “fillers” to restore natural fullness and volume to multiple areas. These products can smooth away the lines and folds that occur. Treatment can usually be performed depending on the filler, with minimal discomfort and downtime. We use various products including Juvederm™ and Restylane™. There is no “one size fits all” and so we invite you in for a free consultation to discuss which of these products would benefit you most as well as fit your budget
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One of Dr Rakus’s associate doctors visits The Orangery Laser and Beauty Clinic, to perform dermal fillers, facial volumisation, hand improvements, muscle inhibitors plus consultations for all our other major treatments. Please visit her website on www.drritarakus.com for information, or telephone The Orangery to make an appointment for your free consultation.
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This New Year why not have a look into Lifestyle Medical Beauty Clinic in Chapel Row, Bath to see what ‘state-of-the-art’ aesthetic treatments can do for you. The start of the year is always a good time to reflect on yourself and decide what you would like to improve – and so many non surgical treatments are available now that can help you look good and feel great. One of the very latest treatments, Dermapen (see www.dermapen.co.uk) will reduce the signs of ageing such as lines and wrinkles or can help to reduce the appearance of scarring such as acne scarring or even surgical scars. It has even been shown to improve the appearance of stretch marks. A full face treatment takes around 1 hour and is completely comfortable but the effects are such that more than 90% of our clients who have had the treatment on the face have reported a definite improvement after even one treatment. Surely it would be worth seeing one of the practitioners in Lifestyle at one of their free consultations just to find out what it can do for you. And if you buy a treatment or course of treatments with Dermapen in January the cost will be half normal price saving £125 per treatment! Or perhaps you would like to remove facial red veins or unsightly leg veins before the weather starts to improve and legs come out again. Using both laser and microsclerotherapy the clinic can tackle most red veins easily and effectively. Lifestyle Medical Beauty Clinic obviously offers all the usual treatments you would expect from a leading aesthetic clinic (check the website on www.thelifestyleclinic.co.uk) and maybe some more you wouldn’t expect but whatever treatment you choose you will feel more confident and look and feel great. Why not call the clinic now on 01225 for your free consultation!
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BASKING IN THE GLORY Our award-winning gardening writer Jane Moore is celebrating her garden at the Bath Priory being crowned hotel garden of the year
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his New Year marks the start of a special year for the diminutive gardens department of the Bath Priory Hotel aka Anna, my longstanding part-time assistant, and I. For 2013 is Our Year at the Top; the year we can bask in the glory of the highest accolade that we can gain as hotel gardeners. This year we two are the proud holders of the Relais & Chateaux Garden Trophy. And what a lovely chunk of engraved glass it is too. Now I realise this may not sound like a big deal to you, but it is to us. Unlike awards and accolades for chefs which abound, there are very few prizes around for gardeners. I guess that most of the time, while a chef is typically quite expectant of praise for his culinary creations, short-lived though they may be; the humble gardener is quietly getting on with his garden in the background, seeking only the satisfaction of a good show of tulips and a nicely burgeoning herbaceous border to know that he’s done well. It’s a huge pat on the back for Anna and me and we have the satisfaction of knowing that we can hold our heads high with the big teams, big budgets and enormous reputations of the likes of Gravetye Manor, Raymond Blanc’s Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons and Whatley Manor, not to mention all the glorious hotels abroad. We gardeners are more likely to regard praise from our peers, fellow gardeners who drop in on the National Garden Scheme days and the like, as the proof of our horticultural prowess. I was so excited and pleased when a Swedish gardening tour organiser told me that the hotel had been recommended by Helen Dillon, the Irish gardener and writer. “Where did you hear about us,” I asked. “Oh, I asked Helen Dillon for recommendations when we took a tour to her garden in Ireland,” he said. “She spoke very highly of your garden and had a lovely stay here.” And that was it, although I glowed about it for weeks afterwards: a high profile gardener who I rated commending my work. I was only sorry we’d not met and walked around the garden together. 60 THEBATHMAGAZINE
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But this trophy acknowledges the importance of the garden to the hotel’s atmosphere and ambience. The Priory would not be the same if all we had was a car park, would it? It’s so easy to take a garden for granted and yet the setting of a hotel or even a domestic house is so vital to our perception of the place.
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There’s nothing like a garden for creating a sense of peace and relaxation and, even after nearly ten years at the Priory, I still think it’s one of the loveliest gardens I’ve ever worked in. I know, I’m terribly biased but I can’t get too big headed. The layout of the garden has been a long process that encompasses the talents of garden designers, builders, my predecessor James and countless gardeners before us stretching back in time to when the house was new and the gardens first laid out. Gardens can be instantly created – just look at Chelsea Flower Show – but mostly they evolve and the Priory’s history is palpable for us. When we mow our main lawn, we can feel the depression where the grand old specimen tree once stood – I think it was a beech, looking at the grainy black and white photo from the 1930s. This slight hollow in the lawn, all but invisible, lies close to the walnut which was obviously planted to replace the ancient tree and is now reaching a good size and gaining a touch of majesty itself. It’s a bit like looking at the stars: you realise you’re just a small part of a very big picture. I wonder if later generations of gardeners will contemplate the liquidambar I have planted and thank me for my foresight in the same way as I do my forerunners. I do hope so.
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HISTORIC: the view across the croquet lawn towards the Bath Priory Hotel in summer
And that’s the thing about gardening, although Anna and I are hugely pleased to have our praises sung and our work celebrated, it’s not what we do it for. I always say that if I wanted to be rich or get my name in lights, I opted for the wrong profession. Come the spring, once the grass starts growing and the seeds need sowing, we’ll be out there, same as ever, getting on with the unsung, joyful stuff that makes being a gardener so worthwhile.■ Follow Jane on Twitter @janethegardener or read her blog, www.janethegardener.wordpress.com
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Awards or not, the garden still needs attention even in the bleakest of months. It’s now that we’re likely to get the worst of the weather: frosts, gales, snow and, of course, heavy rain. Lovely. ● Check stakes, ties, fleeces, bubble wrap and so on to SATISFYING: cut off old leaves on hellebores make sure it’s to show off their delicate flowers secure and your tender plants are well protected. ● Keep feeding the birds, it’s a tough month for them, and you’ll be grateful once they’re picking at the aphids on your fruit bushes later on. ● One of my favourite January jobs is cutting off old leaves of the hellebores to show off the emerging flowers. It’s chilly on the fingers but the hellebores look beautiful once it’s done. ● A toasty indoor job is settling down with the seed catalogues and a cup of tea to plan the annual border and the vegetable crop rotations for the coming season. I also make a list of any annuals such as cosmos and so forth that we dot around the beds to fill in any gaps later in the season.
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he age of the twenty first century is upon us with technology leading the way. Even when it comes to our pets, technology is working for us since we no longer have to worry about tattoos or dog tags as a means of their identification due to the advent of the microchip. Microchipping sounds very technologically advanced but it is a simple affordable process that takes as much time as administering a vaccine. As you can imagine, working in a veterinary surgery there have been stray animals brought in by well meaning members of the general public especially cats who like to try out new homes occasionally and dogs that prefer to do walkabouts. By having a microchip cats and dogs, even birds and tortoises, can be reunited with their rightful owners. So what is a microchip you ask, and how does it work? I’ll try to clarify the mysteries of the chip for those yet uninitiated. What is a Microchip? A microchip is a very small radio frequency identification transponder (the size of a grain of rice, the basmati kind) which is surrounded in an inert sterile glass capsule. It is aseptically inserted via a special syringe just under the skin between the shoulders usually while the animal is conscious. In fact most pets do not even know they have had the implantation. The chip will remain just under the skin for your pet’s entire life. What happens after the microchip is transplanted? A small hand held scanner emits radio waves which will detect the chip. The scanner will read a fifteen digit number unique to the chip which is logged onto a national computerized database with the owners contact details. If you need to change these details, for example if you decide to relocate, simply get in touch with database online or by post. Scanners are found in all vet surgeries, animal shelters and rescue centres. Why do we need a Microchip? Microchips are handy not only for lost and found animals but also for pet passports since they will accurately identify the pet to the official paperwork. The chips themselves cannot be removed easily unless by surgical intervention so it makes it a sure fire way of identification. Cats in particular can also use the chip to access the newer cat flaps which read the chip to allow the flap to open, enabling only your cat to enter your home. The flap can allow for more than one chip to be read in the case of multicat households This technology solves the problem of other unwanted house guests. How much does it cost to implant a Microchip? As the years go by, like most new technologies, the identichip is becoming more widespread and therefore less expensive. Most veterinary surgeries charge a small fee and animal shelters will provide the chip within the costs of adoption. At Bath Vet Group we include microchips as part of our popular Pet Health Plan. Remember we all want to encourage the use of chips. Microchips have been present worldwide for over twenty years now, and it is a widely accepted practice to chip your pet as the sole means of identification. It will take only minutes to administer and log your pet onto the database. You might as well use this useful piece of technology for the peace of mind that you get from knowing your pet will be reunited with you should they be lost. If you have any questions, local vet Jenny Keen will be pleased to help and can be contacted on 01225 428921. All Bath Vet Group surgery contact details and further information are available at www.bathvetgroup.co.uk. 62 THEBATHMAGAZINE
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as one of your new year’s resolutions to save more and spend less? Or perhaps it was to earn some extra money to cope with the household bills? Either way, a new website that has recently launched in Bristol and Bath may provide an innovative solution. Storenextdoor.com connects people that have ‘stuff to store’ to people who live near them with ‘space to spare’. The space could be an empty loft or garage, a spare room or even a secure outbuilding. The service is fully insured by Aviva, and both parties have to fill out a user profile and sign legal documents to keep everything fair and square. The people who list spaces are known as 'Badgers' and there are currently 27 of them in the Bristol and Bath area. Weekly prices for spaces range from £6-7 for a small room or vault to £20-25 for a whole garage or loft, and that includes the insurance cover, so considerably cheaper than going down the commercial storage route especially for a long-term contract. Anyone with extra space can become a Badger - as well as homeowners the opportunity is open to small businesses and charitable organisations - and the website currently allows up to five listings per sign up. The Squirrels (the people that rent the spaces) have to write an inventory of all the items they wish to store, and can ask to view listed storage spaces before using them. Once a contract is arranged, the Squirrel sets up a direct debit and the website takes its cut from this fee. The rest is paid to the badgers. A common ‘first reaction’ is one of ‘can I trust the other party’ and immediately issues spring to mind about security and safety. All the evidence, however, is pointing to the complete opposite revelation. When people-do-business-with-people (think of ebay) and their ‘online’ reputations are put ‘on the line’ – especially at a local level – then the results are surprisingly positive. Incidents of abuse of such services are very rare indeed and the collaborative nature of these websites means that users are generally very open about their interactions and very pleased to offer testimonials. WWW.THEBATHMAGAZINE.CO.UK
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here are little corners and plots in Bath where those with imagination crave to create new homes or businesses. In a city the space is limited for new development, so builders and architects have become adept at creating more. They have tanked in cellars to make dining rooms, dug down into gardens to create new family rooms, and converted old attics into apartments. The casual visitor might think that Bath couldn’t be built up anymore without advancing on to those glorious unspoiled green hills around it. But, if you look carefully, there is still the odd corner apparently unclaimed by anything other than buddlea and brambles, that could be put to good use. We have all noticed the major development taking place at Riverside, where much of Bath’s former heavy industry used to take place. This brownfield site was never going to be a beauty spot, so building homes on it was a relatively non-controversial decision. But a walk around the city centre and a trawl through the internet uncovers any number of brand new, or about to be built small developments of townhouses and apartments dotted about all around the city. Melksham-based developer Ashford Homes (South West) has a couple of new developments for sale, at Holburne Place not far from the Holburne Museum, and another in Upper Bristol Road, where of the 14 homes being created only four are left unsold. Coming up, the developers have plans for a terrace of seven houses, also off Upper Bristol Road, at Monmouth Pace, along with seven apartments in a new-build in Crescent Lane, just off Julian Road. Although this isn’t built yet, three of the seven apartments have been sold off plan. Ashford Homes is also going to build a Georgian style villa, called Sydney Lawns, near to Sydney Gardens, which will house another eight apartments. 66 THEBATHMAGAZINE
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By the Kennet and Avon Canal four contemporary houses are being tucked in near to the water in desirable Widcombe, and off Walcot Street another waterside plot has three townhouses and a maisonette in a gated community dubbed Gibbs Mews. An apparently awkward spot just off the busy London Road, in Upper East Hayes, is the latest clever project into intelligent infilling. Where there was once a storage building behind the former Leather Chairs of Bath there is now a neat row of townhouses called Jubilee Terrace. The architects, Bath firm David Brain has cleverly designed four two bedroom houses on the lower slopes of the hill which will give their new owners three desirable assets for Bath city homes – namely, parking, proximity to the centre and somewhere to sit out and enjoy the sun on a small west facing terrace. Another Bath business, Emery was engaged to build the houses and the finished project has been put forward for a Local Authority Building Control award.
an apparently awkward spot just ❝ off the busy London Road . . . is the latest clever project ❞ The parking space is smartly managed with a shared garage under the houses, which cleverly allows cars to get in and out of this tight space via a remote control turntable. This may be the first time this clever city gadget has been deployed in Bath but it’s an inspired way to turn a vehicle in a small space and may catch on. The two central houses are slightly larger, by about a metre at the back, making their second bedrooms and living area larger.
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Visitors enter into a hallway, with light oak and glass doors off it. There’s a neat cloakroom tucked away at the foot of the stairs, fitted with tiles from Mandarin of Broad Street and the oak flooring of the hall extends right through the living area. The latter is an open plan arrangement with the well equipped kitchen looking out over the paved courtyard garden. There is room for a dining table and a sitting room area too. Upstairs, as well as the two bedrooms, there is a bathroom and a handy airing cupboard with boiler. In the two central properties
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the bathroom has a separate shower as well as a bath. Although the houses lie just off such a traffic-filled thoroughfare there is virtually no sound, thanks to the double glazing. The window frames are wooden. The terrace is a level walk from the city centre and within walking distance of Bath Spa Station for commuters. ■ Jubilee Terrace is on the market with Crisp Cowley, with prices from £335,000. Tel: 01225 789333 to view.
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he Gables is a stunning and deceptively spacious detached period house standing in wonderful gardens, in all approximately an acre, in the heart of a sought after village east of Bath. Believed in parts to date back some 400 years the property has been the subject of almost complete refurbishment and decoration and with meticulous restoration of the stone mullioned windows. Arranged over two floors the substantial and well presented family accommodation comprises 5 bedrooms, 2 fabulous en suite bathrooms, additional guest bathroom, family room, dining room with impressive inglenook fireplace, sitting room with a further inglenook, study, conservatory, well fitted kitchen leading into an impressive dining/breakfast room, utility room and cloakroom. Fabulous detached stone built annexe comprising sitting room with mezzanine area above, kitchen/dining room and wet room, ideal for au pair, dependent relative or for use as a home office. Further detached stone built gym. Detached stone outbuilding incorporating triple open fronted car port, 2 garages and workshop. There’s also an abundance of parking space. Large mature and beautifully maintained lawned gardens ( approx 1 acre) giving a great deal of privacy. The Gables is on the market with Bath estate agents Pritchards. Pritchards, 11 Quiet Street, Bath. Tel: 01225 466225
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Lower South Wraxall
Overlooking Englishcombe
A stunning & deceptively spacious detached period house standing in approx 1 acre of private gardens. The subject of almost complete refurbishment & meticulous restoration, in part dating back some 400 years. Approx int area: 3711 sq ft/344.75 sq m. 5 bedrooms - 2 en suite & bathroom, family room, 2 receptions with inglenooks, study, conservatory, kitchen leading into dining/breakfast room. Stone built annexe ideal for extra accomm/office and gym. Detached stone outbuilding incl. car port, 2 garages & workshop.
An impressive eco-friendly 5 bed detached home. Set in 5 acres with wonderful views. Approx floor area: 3919 sq ft/364 sq m.
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Cleveland Walk, Bathwick
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A beautiful attached Victorian Grade II Listed House, circa 1850, with impressive reception hall & kitchen leading to fabulous Amdega conservatory/dining room.
A handsome G II listed farmhouse set in delightful grounds of approx 1 acre. Tucked away location, delightfully presented. (3536 sq ft/328.6 sq m). Stone outbuilding /garage.
3 double bedrooms, bathroom & 2 en suite showers, drawing room. Lovely City views. Attractive gardens. Superb detached GArDEN pAVILION with en suite. Ample driveway parking.
6 bedrooms - 2 en suite, 2 shower/bathrooms, 2 receptions, kitch/breakfast rm utility, boot & cloakrms. Underfloor heating to GF. Potential for ancillary accom (subj to nec consents).
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Upper Camden Place
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A stylish & wide bayed 5 storey Georgian townhouse with unrivalled views over the City & beyond. Total floor area (house) 2324 sq ft / 216 sq m. Reception hall & dining room, kitchen & utility, cloakroom, drawing rm, withdrawing room/bed 5, 3 bedrooms, bed 4/study, 2 bath/shower rms.Very pretty gardens. Garage 197 sq ft/18 sq m.
A fabulous detached contemporary house, newly built to most impressive environmental standards. Quiet, sought-after road close to Bath University with driveway parking. Stunning kitchen/dining/living room with wood burning stove and French windows into garden and folding doors into sitting room, 4 bedrooms, 2 at GF level and 2 en suite & further bathroom. Air heat source pump for underfloor heating throughout. Level landscape gardens to front and rear.
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High Street, Batheaston
Corston, Nr Bath
An attractive Grade II Listed Georgian house retaining a wealth of charm and character in the heart of this popular village.
A beautiful example of a detached period family home set within large level grounds.
4 bedrooms, study, bathroom, kitchen/dining room, 2 receptions. Gardens. Parking. Total approx. floor area: 1607 sq ft / 149.2 sq m.Price:
Kitchen/breakfast room, sitting room, dining room, 24ft living room, utility, four double bedrooms one with en suite and a family bathroom. Cellar. Ample off road parking. Mature level gardens. Countryside views. Approx floor area: 1742 sq ft/161.9 sq m. Bath 5.8 miles approx
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Beech Avenue, Claverton Down A spacious and contemporary individually designed detached house, newly built to a high specification throughout and benefitting from off-street parking and a picturesque garden. Located down a private road off a peaceful cul-de-sac at the top of Bathwick Hill, the property enjoys extremely convenient access to Bath city centre, as well as a host of highly regarded primary and secondary schools.
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A beautifully proportioned and individual Grade I Listed Garden House set within the exclusive and popular area of Lansdown with master bedroom, en suite, 2 double bedrooms, study/cot room, family bathroom, 2 reception rooms, newly fitted kitchen, ground floor shower room, garden and parking for 2 cars. Available now. Hamptons Office 01225 445646 bathlettings@hamptons-int.com
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PART EXCHANGE OPEN DAY & SPECIAL OFFER INTRODUCED FOR HOUSE AT RHYMES PLACE, BATH. Ashford Homes (South Western Limited), local developers with a great reputation for building luxurious new homes have just introduced an added incentive “with the introduction of a £10,000 contribution towards stamp duty Or PART EXCHANGE CONSIDERED,” on the one remaining four bedroom detached home on the outskirts of Bath at Rhymes Place. They are also holding a Special “Part Exchange Event” on Saturday 2nd February from 10am-1pm, when interested parties are invited without an appointment to view the house at their leisure, even if their house isn’t on the market or sold, to see the quality this house offers. “Part exchange is a quick and easy way to move with many benefits to the buyer including no estate agents fees, no bother of having to show buyers over your home or delays inherent in finding a buyer, and is a fast easy option which allows people to plan their move confidently,” says Paul Weeks,” and we would be available to talk to any interested parties about what a great and straightforward way to get moving this can be.” Full details of Ashford Homes Part Exchange Terms & Conditions are available on request and both Philip Cobb (Cobb Farr-Bath) and Paul Weeks, Ashford Homes Sales & Marketing Manager, will be present at the “open day,” to offer any help or advice needed. Rhymes Place, Bailbrook Lane, Bath, is a small select development offering four 4 bedroom and two 5 bedroom detached homes with gardens on the eastern edge of the City. The luxury 4 bedroom detached home available, is finished, carpeted and ready to move into, including luxury granite work tops in the kitchen as a bonus which was not part of the normal specification, and landscaped gardens. The house itself externally combines attractive Natural Farmington Stone and rendered elevations with architectural features in a great position that offers views towards open countryside, set in good sized gardens, whilst offering a single garage with remote control door and driveway parking. WWW.THEBATHMAGAZINE.CO.UK
The location on the outskirts of Bath also offers access into nearby lanes and fields for relaxing walks, whilst at the same time offering great communication links with access to the centre of the World Heritage City within 2 miles, and onto other destinations via the nearby A46 and the M4 Motorway via junction 18.” Ashford Homes are also well known for providing the highest level of specification and the house at Rhymes Place is no exception to this rule, offering a luxury fitted kitchen, and quality fitted appliances. The house also offer gas fired under floor central heating with individually controlled zones and a comprehensive alarm and electrical specification including an advanced home network/TV infrastructure supporting the distribution of television, Sky (with remote control option), data and telephone to multiple locations. Ceiling speakers in the master bedroom and an iPod docking station are fitted as standard and allows the occupier to listen to music from their “docked” iPod or phone through the unobtrusive high quality ceiling mounted speakers with additional options to upgrade the system in several ways. Bathrooms and en suite shower rooms are fitted with quality Villeroy & Boch white sanitary ware, whilst taps and showers are all from the renowned Hansgrohe range. “This is the last chance to buy a home on this development,” says Paul Weeks, “and with the asking price having just been reduced and an Offer of Part Exchange available as an option, it is certainly worth coming to look at this house before it is too late, it could be the best decision you make in your life.” The Price for Plot 5 at Rhymes Place is £529,950, with either a £10,000 contribution towards stamp duty OR Part Exchange Considered (subject to terms & conditions). So if you want to see what Rhymes Place offers, you can contact Cobb Farr their sole agents in Bath on 01225-333332 for details, or just visit without an appointment on the Open Day. To see details of other locations Ashford Homes are constructing, visit their web site at www.ashfordhomes.co.uk for details of their current and forthcoming developments across the region. JANUARY 2013
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Fidelis
Elliston Drive
ÂŁ295,000
A Spacious Modern Family Home with Stunning Views across Bath Offered for Sale Chain Free Living Room opening onto Balcony | Dining Room | Office/Reception 3 | Modern Kitchen | Cloakroom | Master Bedroom with En-suite Shower Room | 2 further Double Bedrooms | Family Bathroom | Off Road Parking | Garden
www.fidelisproperties.co.uk
01225 421000
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Bath Office Sales. 01225 459817 bath@hamptons-int.com Beyond your expectations www.hamptons.co.uk
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Lansdown Crescent – In 2012 Hamptons were successful in selling some wonderful apartments in Bath’s prime addresses. This elegant three bedroom maisonette sold in the most glorious Lansdown Crescent.
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Cambridge Terrace – Hamptons sold this handsome Grade II Listed townhouse in excess of the guide price. If you are thinking of selling your property, please contact us for a free, no-obligation market appraisal.
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Cavendish Lodge – Cavendish Lodge has always been a popular home especially for our international buyers. Hamptons were privileged to sell two apartments in 2012. Do call us this year if you wish to discuss your requirements.
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St Andrews Terrace – This elegant townhouse was sold by Hamptons within ten days of marketing. With high demand for similar properties, please contact us to discuss how we can help you move this year.
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The Chestnuts – Hamptons are proud to announce our success in selling
Twinneys – Contemporary homes have become ever more popular within
four properties in the ever popular Charlcombe Lane in 2012. If you are considering selling your home in Charlcombe or Lansdown, please call us.
our wonderful Georgian city. We are delighted to announce a local Bath based buyer successfully purchased this unique home.
Bath Office 01225 459817 bath@hamptons-int.com
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The Old Manor, Marshfield – The pretty villages north of Bath are always so popular with many of our London buyers offering excellent access to the M4 whilst living the Cotswold dream. From pretty Honeysuckle Cottage in North Wraxall, to a small-holding in Nettleton and this fantastic period manor house located in the centre of Marshfield we have many customers ready to buy this new year.
You can count on us to help you move in 2013
The Chantry, Corsham – Hamptons International are known for their success in selling large family homes in central Bath, however we also specialise in the wonderful small towns that surround us such as Bradford on Avon and Corsham. We are delighted that by selling their pretty cottage in Tormarton a new family were able to move in to this wonderful six bedroom former vicarage just before Christmas. Bath Office 01225 459817 bath@hamptons-int.com
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HENSLEY ROAD
ÂŁ575,000
This wonderful 1930s detached property offers generous accommodation, attractive, good sized gardens and a most sought-after position in this well-established part of Bloomfield, just minutes above the Bear Flat. A rarely available and substantial family home. Storm porch, hallway, two large reception rooms, breakfast room, kitchen, 4 bedrooms and bathroom. Integral garage, gardens and off-street parking. Gas central heating, double glazing and solar panels. Approximate gross internal floor area: 1,770 square feet / 164 square metres.
1 Hayes Place, Bear Flat, Bath BA2 4QW
01225 422 224
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BLOOMFIELD ROAD
ÂŁ650,000
This vast, double fronted, semi-detached house must surely have some of the best views over the city, looking northwards across Bath’s panorama. Certainly in need of some TLC, but could be a fantastic home once the money and effort is spent. Available with no onward chain. Main house with hallway, 3 reception rooms, kitchen, 5 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Self-contained flat with 4 rooms, Kitchen and bathroom. Off-street parking and enclosed rear gardens. Approximate gross internal floor area: 3,335 square feet / 310 square metres.
www.mark-naylor.com
email: homes@mark-naylor.com
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Beaufort House For some time, the present owners had been searching for a sizeable period property and, therefore, were delighted to discover this large Georgian house. Key attractions were that it is set well back from the road, in total privacy, located central to the city, and provided excellent access to schools for their three children. Built around 1806, the house is full of original Georgian character such as high coved ceilings, architrave skirting, sash windows and fabulous fireplaces. Although in good condition when the owners purchased the property, they have carried out several enhancements since they came to live here thirteen years ago, including a new, state-of-the-art kitchen.Their main project, however, was to cleverly incorporate the adjacent empty stables into the main part of the house to provide extra and useful rooms, one being a media room with a built-in surround system and TV: very much a family favourite. All bedrooms are large, one having the luxury of a separate sitting area – perfect for a teenage family member and currently an excellent guest suite.There is also a separate coach house,
presently used for home working, but its flexibility could easily provide comfortable accommodation for independent living by a family member. A fabulous party house, the main reception rooms overlook the stylishly landscaped and enclosed garden at the front of the house, where family and guests can enjoy relaxed dining on the terrace, when weather permits. It is also a space in which marquees are erected for those special celebrations. It is a few minutes’ walk from the house into Larkhall village, which features several independent shops, restaurants and pubs, plus a small theatre and well used community hall. Larger stores and supermarkets, together with an excellent choice of both state and independent schools, are located in the city centre. Bath, with its stunning architecture, amazing history and cultural facilities offers a never-ending choice of activities from which to select.The mainline station provides around a one and a half hour journey into Paddington and there are excellent links to major roads and motorways for journeys in all directions.
GROSVENOR, BATH Georgian Grade II listed house, 5 bedrooms, 3 reception rooms, 3 bathrooms, study utility room and wine cellar, separate 1 bedroom coach house, gravel drive with parking for numerous cars
Contact: 01225 320032
ÂŁ1,250,000
Great Pulteney Street
OIEO ÂŁ380,000
Georgian apartment | Beautifully appointed | Stunning kitchen | Prestigious address | Second floor | Luxury bath and shower room | Stunning views This stunning Grade I listed two bedroom apartment is located in the world famous Great Pulteney Street and offers spacious, well presented accommodation all just a level walk from the City Centre. This second floor apartment offers two bedrooms, master with en suite, main bathroom, sitting room with open plan kitchen. This is a truly special apartment in a wonderful location and an internal viewing is highly recommended.
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Victoria Bridge Court
OIEO ÂŁ360,000
Gated development | West facing balcony | Allocated covered parking | Well presented | Three bedrooms | Contemporary living A modern, contemporary waterside apartment situated in a secure development within easy and level walking distance of central Bath and with the added benefit of allocated undercover parking. Beautifully presented accommodation comprising open plan large living space with dining area and modern kitchen with integrated appliances, featuring a spectacular glazed wall opening on to a west facing balcony. Master bedroom with ensuite, two further bedrooms and a bathroom. There are also communal gardens and an undercover private parking space.
Rivers Street
OIEO ÂŁ200,000
Grade II listed | Georgian apartment | Sought after area | Stunning views | One bedroom | Viewing recommended This lovely one bedroomed Grade II listed Georgian apartment is located in the ever popular area of Rivers Street. With stunning far reaching views over the south of Bath this property would make the perfect first time buy, city pad or investment property. Consisting; entrance hall, sitting room, kitchen with dining area, bedroom and bathroom. A fantastic apartment, viewing highly recommended.
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Henrietta Villas A handsome Grade II listed semi-detached house dating from 1850 and providing over 3800 sq ft of accommodation in this highly sought after location | spacious entrance hall | drawing room | study/tv room | dining room | kitchen | cloakroom | utility | 5 bedrooms | 2 bathrooms | shower room | self-contained garden apartment comprising sitting room, bedroom, kitchen, shower room | 2 store rooms | tandem garage | driveway parking for several cars | established garden | Guide Price: ÂŁ1,600,000
Crisp Cowley Ralph Allen’s Town House York Street Bath BA1 1NQ 01225 789333
www.crispcowley.co.uk
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Wellow An outstanding Grade II listed house with fine views providing over 5,000 sq ft of accommodation in this highly desirable village | spacious entrance hall | drawing room | dining room | kitchen/breakfast room | sitting room | study | garden room | boot room | 2 utility rooms | boiler room | 2 cloakrooms | master bedroom with en suite bathroom | 5 further bedrooms | family bathroom | shower room | cellar | double garage with office above | detached oak framed double bay car port | beautiful gardens | tennis court | Guide Price: ÂŁ1,850,000
Crisp Cowley Ralph Allen’s Town House York Street Bath BA1 1NQ 01225 789333
www.crispcowley.co.uk
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Wellow A beautifully converted barn providing approximately 4000 sq ft of accommodation in this highly desirable village | spacious entrance hall | drawing room | dining room | family room | sitting room/office | study | kitchen/breakfast room | utility room | master bedroom with en suite bathroom | 4 further double bedrooms (1 en suite) | family bathroom | sitting/study area | laundry | potential for self-contained east wing | beautiful gardens | swimming pool | double garage | parking | Guide Price: ÂŁ1,250,000
Crisp Cowley Ralph Allen’s Town House York Street Bath BA1 1NQ 01225 789333
www.crispcowley.co.uk
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Beckington Enchanting and historic stone built mill house with 11th Century connections. Enviable waterside setting | reception hall | cloakroom |sitting room |double height drawing room and gallery | refitted kitchen | utility | 5 bedrooms | 2 bathrooms | office | wood store | lovely gardens | river and fishing | valley views over farmland | Guide Price: ÂŁ865,000
Crisp Cowley Ralph Allen’s Town House York Street Bath BA1 1NQ 01225 789333
www.crispcowley.co.uk
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Chelsea House London Road Bath BA1 6DB Tel 01225 447971
88 Whiteladies Road Clifton Bristol BS8 2QN Tel 0117 973 1144