The Bath Magazine October 2021 by MC Publishing Limited

Bath_Mag_Cover_October .e$S_Layout 1 23/09/2021 15:58 Page 1

ISSUE 224 | OCTOBER 2021 | thebathmag.co.uk | £3.95 where sold

RICK STEIN

on why cooking is a serious business EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

INTERIOR PLANES

How to set the tone with walls and floors

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

The making of a documentary about an Alice exhibition

PAINTED IMPRESSIONS The loose landscapes of Midge Naylor's imagination

PLUS...

S O M U C H M O R E I N T H E C I T Y ’ S B I G G E S T G U I D E T O L I V I N G I N B AT H

Coopers FP October.qxp_Layout 2 21/09/2021 15:48 Page 1

FIND THE FULL RANGE OF

SMEG SMALL APPLIANCES + COOKWARE AT OUR SHOWROOM

COOPERS HOME APPLIANCES

An independent electrical retailer with award-winning  customer service. Great products, real advice, fast local delivery, fitting service and removal of replaced appliances.

13/15 Walcot Street, Bath (Opposite Waitrose)

01225 311811 coopers-stores.com

ssss

Range Cookers • Ovens • Hobs • Fridge Freezers • Washing Machines Tumble Dryers • Vacuum Cleaners • Dishwashers • Wine Storage & Coolers

Ben ARgent FP September.qxp_Layout 1 21/09/2021 15:51 Page 1

Contents – oct.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 16:53 Page 1

Contents 5 THINGS

October 2021

......................................................................

Great things to look forward to this month

THE CITYIST

................................................................

..................................................................

After the outlaw years, Gerie Herbert wonders if the work of D.H. Lawrence can be seen as a relevant voice

GOOD READS

PORNOGRAPHER OR LITERARY GENIUS?

We chat to Carolina Aguillon about her life in Bath

NOTES ON A SMALL CITY

FOOD REVIEW

Emma Clegg samples the food at Bosco Pizzeria in Milsom Place which specialises in Neapolitan pizza

............................................

Richard Wyatt talks about the felines in his life

..................

..................................................................

Four ideas for autumn reads from Topping & Co. Booksellers

IN-STEIN-T ATTRACTION

.............................................

THE UNION WORKHOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Melissa Blease chats to celebrated chef and food writer Rick Stein about his new book and why for him food is the be all and end all

FASHION FORWARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

John Payne looks back at the history of the Bath Union Workhouse, including the field where his great grandparents lie in unmarked graves

WALKING WITH ANDREW SWIFT

Autumn Winter 21 brings a rewilding vibe at Toast along with a new menswear collection

This month we follow the Trail of the Ruralists in Wellow

WHAT’S ON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

INTERIOR PLANES

Our guide to the happenings across the city

Time for a design rethink at home? Strip back and start by reconsidering your walls and floors, says Emma Clegg

ARTS AND EXHIBITIONS

................................

........................................................

..............................................

Here is a monthly guide to the visual delights on show in Bath

HOMES, INTERIORS & GARDENS GUIDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68 Here’s all the know-how you need to set up your style inside and out

PAINTED IMAGININGS

...................................................

GARDENING

Emma Clegg talks to artist Midge Naylor who creates canvases inspired by the Mid-Lothian landscape

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER

......................................

Elly West considers the more poisonous plants of the species from hemlock to deadly nightshade

Emma Clegg and director Dione Orrom discuss a new documentary about the V&A’s Alice in Wonderland exhibition

ON THE COVER Rick Stein talks to us about his latest book, Rick Stein at Home on page 18. Image: © BBC Books

More content and updates discover: thebathmag.co.uk

4 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOBeR 2021

issue 224

....................................................................

Avonvale FP.qxp_Layout 1 20/09/2021 16:50 Page 1

Boniti DPS.qxp_Layout 1 24/03/2021 09:05 Page 1

Boniti DPS.qxp_Layout 1 24/03/2021 09:05 Page 2

Editors Letter aug.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 18:02 Page 1

FROM THE EDITOR

American photographer Anna Gaskell has created two bodies of work inspired by Alice in Wonderland. She is one of a host of creatives who have reimagined the story of Alice in different forms. See page 38.

Editor photograph by TBM

Emma Clegg Editor

Photograph by Alister Thorpe

ross Alice in Wonderland with superchef Rick Stein and what do you get? Slow-braised caterpillar with parmesan polenta? Grilled Mock Turtle with roast capsicum? French white rabbit stew with Dijon mustard? Don’t be silly! It’s actually the October issue of our lovely Bath Magazine. Rick Stein’s wide smile does have similarities to the Cheshire cat’s, but he’s quite lacking in smugness. Melissa Blease talks to Rick as he visits Bath to talk about his new book Rick Stein at Home, concocted during lockdown when he was able to step away from his busy schedule to take stock of what food and cooking really means to him and embrace preparing food in his home kitchen. See page 18. Alice in Wonderland comes in the form of Dione Orrom, who directed the documentary of the V&A’s blockbuster exhibition Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, which is released in independent cinemas (including the Little Theatre Cinema) this month. The film gives Alice fans the opportunity to discover more about the immersive exhibition and revel in how many leading creatives, from Salvador Dali to Vivienne Westwood, have used the Alice phenomenon in their work. See page 26. We are rethinking our interiors this month by reassessing walls and floors, which set the tone for any interior scheme, and examine different ways of dealing with them, from using paint to frame furniture to the many advantages of stone floors. See page 60, and the pages beyond for a selection of our local suppliers of interiors products and services. This year is the centenary of the publication of D.H. Lawrence’s book Women in Love and local writer Gerie Herbert takes on a literary defence of the author who endured a searing critique and censorship in his lifetime and for many years after, and whose public reputation at the time of his death was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. She deliberates on page 44 whether his work can be considered anew as a relevant voice. We also discover on page 36 some visionary paintings by Midge Naylor, who is exhibiting at the Bath Society of Artists 116th Annual Exhibition at Victoria Art Gallery, starting this month, and on page 38 John Payne tells us about the Bath Union Workhouse and its burial ground where over 3,000 of its residents lie in unmarked graves. It’s time to read all about it. As the King said gravely to Alice, “Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” Then you won’t miss anything.

Bath-based landscape architecture practice Grant Associates has been awarded a Gold Medal and the coveted 'Best Show Garden' at the 2021 Chelsea Flower Show for its Chinese-inspired Guangzhou Garden, which shows how cities of the future must be considered as landscape cities. Designed by the practice’s director Peter Chmiel and senior associate Chin-Jung Chen, the garden takes inspiration from Guangzhou, a port city northwest of Hong Kong on China’s Pearl River and includes one of the largest volumes of water ever to feature in a Chelsea show garden. Grant Associates are one of the world class businesses who form part of Bath Unlimited. grant-associates.uk.com; bathunlimited.org

All paper used to make this magazine is taken from good sustainable sources and we encourage our suppliers to join an accredited green scheme. Magazines are now fully recyclable. By recycling magazines, you can help to reduce waste and contribute to the six million tonnes of paper already recycled by the UK paper industry each year. Please recycle this magazine, but if you are not able to participate in a recycling scheme, then why not pass your magazine on to a friend or colleague.

8 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOBeR 2021

iSSUe 224

Etons fp.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 11:46 Page 1

5 things - october.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 18:05 Page 1

ZEITGEIST

things to do this

October

Photography by Karla-Gowlitt

Escape

Sara Barron

Watch The Rondo Theatre is hosting a number of awardwinning performances this month including the smash hit Fringe stand-up show from star of Live At The Apollo, Sara Barron, who tours the UK for the first time and arrives in Bath on 2 October. Also look out for Cindy Stratton Band on 16 October, contemporary song-writing in the folk and Americana genres, tinged with a little bit of soul. Returning to the UK for his first full length tour in six years, Australian comedy legend Steve Hughes will be live on 27 October. Visit The Rondo Theatre’s website for the full list of events and performances: rondotheatre.co.uk

Meet

Ravneet Gill

Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath is set to welcome some more very special guests to the city this month. If you missed Rick Stein – our current cover star – then look out for the likes of bestselling author Tim Parks, Rock Royalty Steven Van Zandt, comedian Ruby Wax, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, acclaimed military historian Max Hasting, Nan Shepherd Prize-winner Nina Mingya Powles and Channel 4’s Junior Bake Off judge Ravneet Gill – to name just a few – speaking about their extraordinary lives and works. Visit Topping & Company’s website for the full list of literary occasions and fun-filled evenings. toppingbooks.co.uk

Enjoy

Party The Trowbridge Craft Beer and Cider Festival will be held at Innox Mills from 15–17 October. This month the festival is set to feature a wide variety of regional beers and ciders, plus street food, live music and evening sessions to ensure a fun, buoyant atmosphere. DeCanter Mobile bar will be serving a range of different alcoholic drinks including gins and wines, plus a selection of soft drinks to make sure no one is left thirsty. The Pump, an organisation that aims to promote musical talent within the town and surrounding area, will provide music. Tickets cost £12.50, which includes two beer tokens. trowbridgebeerfest.co.uk

10 TheBATHMagazine

On 30 October, Bath Bach Choir is performing in a concert entitled Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem at Bath Abbey. Described by Clara Schumann as “an immense piece that takes hold of one's whole being like very little else”, Brahms’s German Requiem combines magic, poetry and romanticism with profound seriousness, to deeply moving effect. As a Lutheran rather than a Roman Catholic, Brahms wrote the oratorio in German and called it “a human requiem”, weaving together themes of consolation for the living, as well as hope for the life to come. In 1871, two years after completing the orchestral version, Brahms produced an intimate chamber version for piano and four hands as a work in its own right. It is this exquisite so-called ‘London version’ that Bath Bach Choir will perform at this autumn concert, bringing the music’s eternal message of love and joy to inspire us all with hope for the future. bathbachchoir.org.uk

ocTober 2021

iSSUe 224

This month, Chapel Arts is hosting a variety of unmissable concerts and welcoming incredible talent to the stage, including the likes of Nate Simpson, whose career has spanned all areas of the music industry and has seen him perform in the smash hit West End musical Motown as Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. In a concert titled What’s Going On: A Celebration of Marvin Gaye, Nate will be bringing you all the biggest hits from the Grammy award-winning ‘Prince of Motown’ on 23 October. Noble Jacks Noble Jacks, hailed as the finest purveyors of folk-influenced Americana, will also be taking no prisoners with their high-energy footstompin’ rhythms on 29 October. Visit the website for more information: chapelarts.org ■

Mandarin Bath and Bristol FP.qxp_Layout 1 20/09/2021 16:50 Page 1

my bath – october.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 18:05 Page 1

The city

ist

THE BUZZ

VISIONARY BOWS OUT

After more than four decades of service Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Head of Heritage Services Stephen Bird, MBE is retiring. Widely regarded as a visionary, Stephen has worked tirelessly throughout his career to modernise and transform Bath & North East Somerset’s museums and heritage visitor attractions. With an infectious passion for local history and a determination to improve accessibility, Stephen has helped inspire millions of visitors to the area. Councillor Kevin Guy, leader of the council said: “Stephen will be sorely missed but he leaves a remarkable legacy. He has overseen the transformation of our Roman Baths into one of the country’s top heritage attractions and made sure that we are at the forefront of innovation, as we see in the fantastic new Archway project now taking shape. “Stephen has always emphasised that we are temporary custodians of our wonderful collections, building and monuments. Now the time has come for him to pass these on, Stephen leaves things in fine shape.” Stephen began his career with Bath City Council as Keeper of Local History at the Roman Baths. He arrived during the major excavations of the Sacred Spring in the King’s Bath and part of the Roman Temple Precinct beneath the Pump Room. A decade on, Stephen masterminded the restoration of the Victoria Art Gallery and oversaw the rebuilding of the Assembly Rooms after the dramatic collapse of the Ball Room ceiling. In 1995 he revolutionised the visitor experience at the Roman Baths and Museum of Costume with the introduction of audio guides. A key decision Stephen made in 1999 was to take the Roman Bath’s & Pump Room into the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions. Subsequently he persuaded the council to run Heritage Services as a business giving it the financial freedom to make long-term investment in conservation, visitor experience and commercial development. Stephen was awarded an MBE in 2018 for his services to museums, heritage and tourism.

12 TheBATHMagazine

ocTober 2021

issue 224

My BATH Carolina Aguillon is a clinical psychologist and astrologer. Born in Argentina, she discovered Bath when she was exploring Europe and ended up staying in the city. She also works in a mental health team for the NHS

Where did you grow up? I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina – 11,000km from my home now in Bath. ‘BA’ is a large, multicultural city, so in many ways it is not too dissimilar to London. But our family life is different as we spent a lot of time together as most Argentinians are Italians in disguise, and of course the sun shines almost every day. When did you first come to Bath? I had always wanted to visit Bath. Like many Argentinians, my family have roots in Europe and Italy, and I was interested in the architecture, the spa and the city’s link to wellness. After I finished studying for my degree, I felt the calling to explore Europe and I stopped in Bath. Where do you live? I feel lucky to live near the centre of town, with the beautiful Victoria Park just around the corner and hot air balloons flying overhead. The buildings are magnificent here, and green space is just a few minutes away. I also have friends living close by – other Argentinians like me that have made Bath their home. What is your training and line of work? I am an astrologer and trained clinical psychologist in Argentina. I also work in a mental health team for the NHS and have trained in different alternative therapies. What really drives what I do is a willingness and openness to help others. How is Bath different from your homeland? Well, first of all, much of Bath was built before my country was even a country! Argentina as we know it is only 200 years old, and when I walk around town and look at the buildings, museums, graveyards and other sites it fascinates me. Bath is full of history, and when my family came to visit they thought I was living in a fairy tale. There are links to Argentina in Bath though – you can try tango lessons here of course! What is your favourite view in Bath? What I like to call ‘my hills’. This is the stretch of fields behind the RUH going up to Beckford’s Tower. It’s lovely to walk there in the evenings.

What gets you up in the morning? Mate! This is a caffeine-rich South American drink that we sometimes have instead of normal tea or coffee. The leaves are brewed in a special cup made from a gourd, and it is enjoyed socially. It is available in the UK and it is really worth trying. It is the true national drink of Argentina! What are your favourite places to eat in Bath? There is a lovely Argentinian café called Cortado just off Pulteney Bridge. They have homemade empanadas (little pasties) and alfajores (shortbread and caramel) made by this amazing baker called Lunita Pasteleria. It reminds me of being at home. How does astrology play a part in your life? Astrology is my true passion and I love helping people to benefit from it. It first came to me after I was involved in a car accident at the age of 18, and I had the time to study it while I recovered. It helped to provide the answers I was looking for. Ever since then I have been passionate about sharing my knowledge and helping people to understand themselves from a psychological perspective. This is normally through a personal reading or therapy which I offer in both English and Spanish. All the details are on my website. What is the best advice you have been given? Every person and every situation can help to teach us something. Don’t take anything too personally and focus on your own growth. What is your ambition over the next year or so? To keep growing. I am absolutely focused on my astrology now. I am passionate about sharing the knowledge I’ve acquired over the years. I also would love start teaching fitness dancing based on a model I discovered in Wales called Turn’d Up Fitness. It empowers women of all ages and shapes to have a great time and feel sassy, and it makes me smile every day, and who wouldn’t with a bit of Queen B! ■ carolinaaguillon.com; instagram: astro_galaxia

P13.qxp_Layout 23 24/09/2021 13:51 Page 1

ELLIS & KILLPARTRICK

Styling Opticians

18 New Bond Street Bath BA1 1BA T. 01225 466954 www.ellisandkillpartrick.com

Exclusive to Ellis and Killpartrick

Grape Ideas

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 13

Richard Wyatt.qxp_Layout 1 20/09/2021 17:00 Page 1

CITY | NOTEBOOK

Richard Wyatt: Notes on a small city Columnist Richard Wyatt remembers the cats who have found a place in his heart, the blockbuster musical stage show of the same name and the less successful screen adaptation...

Mr George

❝

My heart has always belonged to those independent, sensuous, fur-covered felines...

❝

strologically speaking, I am a Leo. That makes me a king of the celestial jungle – vivacious, theatrical and passionate. However, coming back down to earth, I have to say it’s domestic cats rather than lions that have featured in my life. This may be a difficult subject to cover in a city where it would seem to outward appearances that dogs rule, but my heart has always belonged to those independent, sensuous, fur-covered felines who over the years have demeaned themselves enough to spend time with me. The latest pet in a lengthy list of rescued animals features in the cartoon to the right. It’s long-haired Mr George who is riding on the rear rack of my bicycle. Accepted and fostered as a kitten by our then existing cat – the late but lovely tabby Lawrence – George has been our companion for some 14 years. My first furry friend was a chance find when I was just 14 and out with my uncle during school holidays delivering cattle food to Somerset farms. Returning the lorry to the mill at Bleadon I happened to see where the resident moggie had decided to have her kittens, close to the warmth of the building’s industrial boiler, and one of those kittens was soon on its way to my home. Despite the unexpected surprise I was allowed to keep her and Nickel, as she was named, lived to see 24 summers before entering her pussy paradise while sleeping in the sun below a privet hedge. Nick, as I called her, always remembered that furnace near her ‘nest’ as a kitten and was the only one of my cats who would burrow down the bed to my knees on a cold winter’s night. In adulthood cat followed cat, although not all were lucky enough to live out their natural lives. However, each one found a place in my heart as fellow ‘servants’ of Felis catus will no doubt concur. The above musing was brought on by my chance purchase of a reduced-price DVD spotted on a supermarket shelf. Just a fiver for a copy of the screen adaptation of the blockbuster musical Cats – you know, the one that bombed at the box office. I wanted to armchairwatch the film I saw on the big screen back in 2019 and judge it against the overwhelmingly harsh notices it received at the time. Critics

penned such headlines as “an adaptation straight outta the litter box” or as “one to furget” and even as “a dreadful hairball of woe.” Despite it being panned, and it lost Universal Pictures a lot of money, I liked it. The feline fantasy film was based on the incredibly successful stage musical of the same name by Andrew Lloyd Webber, which in turn was based on the poetry collection of 1939 by T.S. Eliot, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Theatre impresario Cameron Mackintosh started a countrywide tour of the musical at the Bristol Hippodrome in 1993 and even pulled in Olympic gold-medal-winning ice-skater Robin Cousins to don whiskers and a tail as Munkustrap, a principal character and the main narrator in the musical. There was a major stage makeover to bring the action further out into the auditorium – a sight the city’s theatre-goers had not seen there before – and what an after-show party at the then Royal Hotel. I know I wasn’t the only ‘me’ saying ‘ow’ the morning after! Lord Webber had taken the collection of whimsical light poems Eliot wrote for his godchildren and turned them into a big budget blockbuster that has made millions. It’s the story of a tribe of street cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the ‘Jellicle choice’ by deciding which cat will ascend to the ‘Heavyside layer’ and come back to a new life. Each contestant introduces themselves to us by song and dance. There’s humour and pathos and … well, I just lap it up as I love a musical. Director, Tom Hooper introduced a new character called Victoria into his star-studded movie version. She is a young white cat, thrown out of a car in the streets of London, who is introduced to the alley cats and leads us through the action. While I re-watched that movie I couldn’t help thinking of the ‘furry friends’ bought to amuse during the Covid lockdowns, and hoping that they have indeed found a forever home. n Richard Wyatt runs the Bath Newseum: bathnewseum.com

14 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOber 2021

issue 224

P15.qxp_Layout 23 23/09/2021 18:12 Page 1

ANTIQUE JEWELLERY REPAIRS AND REMODELLING

Handmade in the heart of Bath

ENGAGEMENT AND WEDDING RINGS • HANDMADE BESPOKE JEWELLERY • REPAIRS AND REMODELLING

9 Abbey Churchyard, Bath BA1 1LY jody@jodycory.co.uk

Shop online at: www.jodycory.co.uk Tel: 01225 460072 THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 15

P16.qxp_Layout 22 24/09/2021 13:52 Page 1

See more online www.thebathmag.co.uk

Steve Miklos steve@thebathmagazine.co.uk

Editor Tel: Email:

Emma Clegg 01225 424592 emma@thebathmagazine.co.uk

Financial Director Email:

Jane Miklos jane@thebathmagazine.co.uk

Assistant Editor/Web Editor Millie Bruce-Watt Email: millie@thebathmagazine.co.uk Production Manager Email:

Jeff Osborne production@thebathmagazine.co.uk

Contact the Advertising Sales team tel: 01225 424499 Advertising Sales Email:

Liz Grey liz@thebathmagazine.co.uk

The Bath Magazine and The Bristol Magazine are published by MC Publishing Ltd. We are an independent of all other local publications

The Bath Magazine is delivered free, every month to more than 15,000 residential addresses as well as businesses throughout Bath and the surrounding area. We also have special distribution units in many of Bath’s supermarkets

2 Princes Buildings, George Street, Bath BA1 2ED Telephone: 01225 424499. Fax: 01225 426677 www.thebathmag.co.uk © MC Publishing Ltd 2021 Disclaimer: Whilst every reasonable care is taken with all material submitted to The Bath Magazine, the publisher cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage to such material. Opinions expressed in articles are strictly those of the authors. This publication is copyright and may not be reproduced in any form either in part or whole without written permission from the publishers.

16 TheBATHMagazine

ocTober 2021

issue 224

P17.qxp_Layout 23 23/09/2021 14:47 Page 1

16 Pierrepont St, Bath BA1 1LA | Tel: 01225 464433 www.kathrynanthony.co.uk

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 17

rick stein.qxp_Layout 1 22/09/2021 15:09 Page 1

FOOD | & | DRINK

Serious about cooking

Celebrated chef, restaurateur, author and television presenter Rick Stein has 10 award-winning restaurants in the UK and has written over 25 cookery books. He talks to Melissa Blease about his latest book, Rick Stein at Home

Rick Stein at Home, BBC Books, £26. Get your copy from Topping & Co; toppingbooks.co.uk

18 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOBeR 2021

iSSUe 224

Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Jacques Chirac and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi along the way can’t have inadvertently missed any kind of business-related trick. But neither is it down to design: a master of the art of self-deprecation with a genuine, twinkly smile and the personality of a kindly uncle isn’t the kind of guy who created a master plan for his public persona. As familiar as we are with the instantly recognisable character who has been at the forefront of the domestic kitchen zeitgeist since he was first introduced to our homes as a guest on his mentor Keith Floyd’s 1985 BBC TV series Floyd on Fish (when Keith accidentally referred to Rick as Nick several times and everybody thought it was a hoot), he remains something of an enigma. So Rick Stein, help me out here: describe yourself in three words. “Inquisitive!” he says, without missing a beat. “And a bit of a perfectionist. And actually, incredibly self-critical; I’m generally easy going, but in terms of cooking, I’m always thinking I could do better. But that’s not to say I beat myself up – to the contrary! Thinking I could do better is therapeutic because it’s a constant reminder, to me, that you need to be serious, actually, about cooking. Even though I could easily say, in the same breath, that cooking shouldn’t be too hard, I feel you should always intend to create something really lovely, and the only way to do that is to be aware of how easy it is for things to go wrong.” To me and millions of others like me, Rick (yup, I’m going for it) couldn’t possibly add the merest hint of essence of wrong to his recipe for success. But despite the easy smile and the ineffable, irrepressible sense of humour, Rick has always come across as a deeply thoughtful man with scant regard for ratings, status or fashionable hit lists – which is why his response to the inevitable question regarding how lockdown was for him comes as no surprise. “In one way, I really enjoyed the lockdowns; I have such a busy life, and I was suddenly given a chance to sit down and think about where I’d been, where I was going and where I was up to,” he says. “That’s where the idea for the new book came from, really; I sort of started cooking again in a proper ‘at home’ way. I’ve always cooked at home, always – I love to cook for family and friends. But suddenly I had plenty of time to reconsider making things

like preserves, and sourdough, and just thinking about what cooking means to me as a human being rather than as a restaurateur, or a TV presenter. I found that very rewarding.” The results are very rewarding for us too. Described by publisher BBC Books as ‘recipes, memories and stories from a food lover’s kitchen’, and by Rick himself as “a glimpse into the rhythms and rituals of my home cooking”, Rick Stein at Home is one of those books that will become as much of a sauce-splattered, note-scrawled old friend on the kitchen shelf as it is a take-to-bed cosy-up read for folk whose kitchen skills don’t extend far beyond reheating a shopbought pie (although even those people may be moved to expand their horizons after digesting Rick’s recipe for Cornish Bouillabaisse.) But on reading Rick Stein at Home, I can’t help thinking... is it a cookery book, or a memoir?

❝

I’ve come to realise that the only things that really interest me in life are food and cooking, in any and every context

❝

oing a Delia, rustling up a Jamie, trying to be Nigella, going Yotam, getting a bit Gordon: we’re so familiar with the UK’s most celebrated celebrity chefs that the mere mention of their first names alone is a fasttrack shorthand to letting your friends or family know what kind of menu you’re planning for supper. But Rick Stein CBE – arguably one of the country’s most successful chefs of all, as well as a prolific cookery writer, charismatic TV superstar and award-winning restauranteur – has somehow managed to avoid lending himself to Instagram/ TikTok/Snapchat parlance. Think about it: last time you made one of his seafood risottos, or fish curries, or shepherd’s pies, you didn’t say you’d “rustled up a Rick” or “slung together a bit of a Stein”, did you? Nope! Because if you don’t call Rick Stein by his proper name, it just doesn’t sound... well, proper. This can’t have happened by accident: a man with a portfolio that includes ownership of 10 award-winning restaurants in the UK (and two in New South Wales, Australia, where Stein has a semi-second home) alongside almost 30 cookery books and multiple globetrotting TV series whilst cooking for The Queen and Prince Philip,

“I suppose you could almost call it a cook’s memoir really, which is one of the many reasons I’ve enjoyed writing it,” says Rick. “But I didn’t take it too seriously, on purpose – there are parts of the book which are a bit frivolous, such as when I’m describing all the gadgets that end up in my garage, and it’s almost like Toy Story; they talk to each other and say, ‘what happened to you, then?’ I didn’t want to make a serious deal about cooking at home; I just wanted to create the atmosphere of what it’s like for me, and what it’s like for my family. So on one level it’s very personal, and sometimes I wondered, maybe that level of personal is just not relevant? But I’ve faithfully recorded what was going on around me at the time of writing and, I hope, found a way to make that interesting – and that’s the best I could do.” But we know from Rick’s career to date that when he uses the words “the best I

rick stein.qxp_Layout 1 22/09/2021 15:10 Page 2

Barbecued Whole Seabass with Fennel Mayonnaise, from Rick Stein at Home. Photograph by James Murphy.

Yellow Dal with Tomato, Turmeric and Fried Kashmiri Chillies, from Rick Stein at Home. Photograph by James Murphy.

could do”, there’s still a lot of best to come. Go on, Rick; you may be concentrating on sharing your new book with us right now... but tell us a bit about the pipeline plans that we know for sure you’ve got. “The one cuisine I’ve yet to fully explore is Chinese,” he says. “I’ve done one programme in China and bits and pieces in Hong Kong, but there’s so much about Chinese food that I don’t understand – it’s such serious cooking! I still have much to learn about Indian food too, and I love the process of discovery; before my 2013 exploration, I’d done a few curries mainly on the back of trips to India with my family, but doing a whole book, and really trying to understand Indian food and how it worked... wow! But I absolutely love – and I

mean, love – Italian cuisine, so hopefully my next voyage is going to be Italy. Again, I’ve filmed a lot there already and I’ve done a lot of Italian recipes but I want to know more. The simple question about Italian food that, for me, remains unanswered is why, exactly, is it so good? I want to go to every part of Italy in order to find the answer to that question!” Mamma Mia! When he does, we’ll be eagerly awaiting the results. But Rick: is it possible to say what, out of all that you do, is your biggest passion: cooking at home, cooking at the restaurant, writing, presenting, travelling...? “I’ve come to realise that the only things that really interest me in life are food and cooking, in any and every context,” he laughs. “If you want to really

engage me in serious conversation, talk food: that’s where I want to be. I’m always really amazed at – and in awe of! – people such as my wife Sarah, whose constant thing in life is talking to other people. She loves people, she’s deeply interested in other people, she remembers names, birthdays, everything about them – I can’t believe how big a memory she’s got. But then I realise, if you want to talk at a very deep level about pomegranates, or spice, or avocados: I’m your man! And that, overall, is my thing. Food: that is what I do.” Yes indeed, Rick Stein: Food Is What You Do – and we want to do it like you do, too. So, what’s for supper this evening? I’m going to rustle up a Rick. n

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 19

Fashion Toast final 2pp.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 10:35 Page 1

CITY | FASHION

Rewilding for her Come take a walk on the wide side with Toast and their Autumn/Winter collection...

➲

his season look to the natural world, so you can seek your own inner connection and response to the wild that surrounds you. Rewilding embraces a natural state of equilibrium, one that’s alive and full of dynamism. As we relinquish control, an unfurling begins; wild, untamed, untreated, free. Rewilding is explored in Toast’s Autumn Winter 2021 collection via folkloric tales with hefty wools, bright floral scarves, rustic neppy yarns and soft utility aprons. Colours of lichen, mushroom, and pale stone are balanced with vivid crimson, grass green and cornflower blue. Clean organic shapes in corduroy and wool ground the collection with modern silhouettes. We asked Hannah Pauley, the TOAST Bath store manager, for her top five picks from their collection...

➲

www.toa.st

Scallop Ruffle Neck Shirt, £135 This soft cotton scallop shirt is very popular in store – the statement collar is the perfect stand-out piece when layering with a cardigan or one of our jumpers.

Flat Front Indigo Denim Culottes, £195 These weighty denim culottes are perfect for this cooler weather, and are a great shape to wear with a knit, jacket or long coat and can be styled either with boots or plimsolls. They are woven and dyed in Japan using traditional techniques.

Vive La Difference Freeway Bag, £235 This bag is a beautiful, unique accessory for us at Toast this Autumn. Comprising supple vegetable tanned leather with snap poppers, the bag is a great size for putting over your shoulder, across the body or waist, and is designed so it can be worn three ways. Often paired with our waxed swingy coat or a gorgeous chunky knit. We love it!

➲

Waxed Cotton Swingy Coat, £235 This lightweight swingy coat in the colour Cumin is the perfect transition piece as the weather slowly begins to change, and our customers have been loving the shape, versatility and ease of this piece. Dyed and finished in Scotland with a shorter length, it is perfect for layering a knit underneath.

Shetland Fair Isle Sweater, £185 Toast creates beautiful Fair Isle sweaters each year that our customers love. Not only is the wool obtained from the Shetland Islands, but its unique pattern and colours can often be seen as a Toast staple and must-have.

20 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOBeR 2021

➲

iSSUe 224

Fashion Toast final 2pp.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 16:02 Page 2

CITY | FASHION

...and for him After a six year break, Toast has released a new menswear collection – here are some highlights...

elaxed yet considered, here is the relaunched menswear collection from Toast. The craft-core brand famed for its beautiful fabrics and functional cuts is offering relaxed workwear pieces, weighty wool sweaters and slubby cotton tees, rendered in an earthy palette accented by pops of vibrant clementine, lavender and sulphur. Nikki Sher, head of menswear and buying at Toast, says that the tightly edited collection is packed with a rich mix of wear-forever knits and workwear silhouettes. “Toast has really found its groove and it was a natural transition for us. A Toast man is just like a Toast woman: they share the same creative confidence.”

➲

Blundstone Boots, £170

Neppy Wool Cotton Sweater, £180; and Dogtooth Wool Cotton Drawstring Trousers, £195

➲

www.toa.st

➲

British Wool Rib Beanie, £45

➲

Wool Grid Stitch Guernsey Sweater, £185; and Dogtooth Wool Cotton Drawstring Trousers, £195

Cord Shawl Collar Jacket £225; Organic Cotton Long Sleeve Tee, £70; and Wool Cotton Drawstring Trousers, £195

Selvedge Cotton Chambray Shirt, £165; Organic Cotton Long Sleeve Tee, £70; and Cord Single Pleat Tapered Trousers, £170

➲

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK | OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 21

P22.qxp_Layout 22 24/09/2021 10:28 Page 1

Ma San Auction In Bath

A Chinese late 19th C. Bronze Tripod Censer with Jade finial SOLD £397 incl. premium

SPECIALISTS IN ORIENTAL WORKS OF ART Highlights from September 9th Sale

A large Pair of Chinese Shiwan Pottery Figures SOLD £7440 incl. premium

A large Pair of Chinese Hardwood Cabinets SOLD £23,560 incl. premium

Free ns atio g valu cceptin s a t n w No signme con r future fo les! sa 22 TheBATHMagazine

A Vintage Chinese Blue & White Charger SOLD £4712 incl. premium

A pair of Chinese Turquoise-ground Jars and covers SOLD £2728 incl. premium

Free valuations and home visits • Over 30 years experience • Competitive commission rates • Direct contacts in Hong Kong and China • Sales every month 2 Princes Buildings, George Street, Bath BA1 2ED Tel: 01225 318587

www.masanauction.com

OCTOBeR 2021

issue 224

P21.qxp_Layout 23 23/09/2021 11:23 Page 1

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 23

what's on - october.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 18:19 Page 1

LOCAL | EVENTS

What’s on in October Dame Joan Collins at the Bath Pavilion

Shakespeare Live performs Hamlet Act Six

ARTISTS’ SHOWCASE Throughout October n Out of the Blue Gallery A beautiful new gallery right in the heart of Bath is showcasing some of the best British artists and ceramicists. Set across two floors, the gallery is packed with great pieces. Look out for must-see exhibitions arriving at the gallery soon. outofthebluegallery.com JAZZ FACTORY: LEARN TO IMPROVISE Every Monday throughout October n Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford-on-Avon Jazz Factory is a weekly jazz workshop for instrumentalists and vocalists. It welcomes and caters for players of all levels, experience and ability. Go along and give it a try! You will work in small groups led by professional musicians in a supportive atmosphere. The workshop meets every Monday evening in term time at Wiltshire Music Centre. jazzfactory.co.uk BATHEASTON ART TRAIL 2–3 October, 11.30am–5.30pm n At various locations in Batheaston Artists aare getting ready to open up their studios and homes – in a real, not virtual way. The trail aims to offer an event for visitors and residents of all ages, to inspire the artist in all of us by showcasing the amazing talent we have living in our local area. Entry to the trail will be free, and a colourful brochure and map is provided to help you find your way from one exhibition venue to another. growbatheaston.co.uk

24 TheBATHMagazine

ocTober 2021

iSSUe 224

DELIGHT ONCE MORE: MUSIC FOR DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI 7 October, 7.30pm n The Holburne The Holburne is hosting a fundraising concert inspired by the works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti including music by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn. The concert is set to be an intimate evening with one of the UK’s most innovative young song duos, inspired by themes from the Rossetti exhibition: love, nostalgia, portraits and dedications. holburne.org SHAKESPEARE LIVE: HAMLET ACT SIX: A COMEDY 11–12 October n The Mission Theatre All Shakespeare lovers know that Hamlet is a tragedy, very long and very sad, and that after five acts almost everybody is dead. But was the play we all know the final version? Or could it have been just an early draft? Be among the first to see the newly discovered sixth act of the play. If it is genuine, when and why did Shakespeare write it? What was it that happened at the first dress rehearsal? Who wasn't really dead? Who wanted the biggest part? Who came to visit from another play? What's the priest got to do with it? Don’t miss the astonishing World Premiere of Hamlet Act Six. shakespearelive.com UNLOCKING NEW WAYS OF BUSINESS THINKING 12 October, 7.30pm–9pm

n Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution To reinvent our businesses, our thinking and practices need to become more entrepreneurial. Value arises from meaning, meaning reflects how we think, thinking operates in the grooves of our habits. Freeing up our thinking – becoming a kinetic thinker – is about unlocking what we see and what we do in the situations we face. brlsi.org DAME JOAN COLLINS IS UNAPOLOGETIC 14 October, 7.30pm n Bath Pavilion The legend of the screen and stage is celebrating her new book, My Unapologetic Diaries. Join Dame Joan in conversation with Christopher Biggins as she reveals some of the exciting, funny (and often outrageous!) stories and secrets from her long career. fane.co.uk DID I SAY THAT OUT LOUD? WITH FI GLOVER & JANE GARVEY 15 October, 7.30pm n Bath Pavilion The award-winning broadcasters don’t claim to have all the answers (what was the question?), but for this live event to celebrate their new book Did I Say That Out Loud?, they guarantee an evening of behind-thescenes revelations and inconsequential, but strangely compelling, chat about living some of their lives in front of and behind the microphone. fane.co.uk

what's on - october.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 18:10 Page 2

LOCAL | EVENTS

Fulltone Orchestra

HIMAL EVENT: THE SHUTTERED SHED 15–17 October n The Health & Beauty Centre The Shuttered Shed is welcoming shoppers back to its 2021 events. It will have many beautiful items all personally chosen and curated, including jewellery, cashmere shawls, scarves and ponchos, handembroidered cashmere and plenty more. Profits from the event, will be donated to The Charitable Foundation for the Education of Nepalese Children. theshutteredshed.co.uk BATH DECORATIVE ANTIQUES FAIR 22–24 October n Bath Pavilion Around 50 exhibitors will converge on the Georgian city from across the UK to reveal stock saved for this important fixture in the fairs calendar. Expect to see chic decorative antiques, sleek mid-century design, architectural salvage, glass, pottery, textiles, home furnishings and a wide range of art from period portraits to modern and contemporary. bathdecorativeantiquesfair.co.uk HALLOWEEN WEEK 23–31 October n American Museum & Gardens Join the American Museum & Gardens for a truly American Halloween celebration throughout October half-term week, from 23 to 31 October. Explore the gardens,

Music for Dante Gabriel Rossetti

FILM SCREENINGS n Throughout October, The Little Theatre Cinema, Bath Of course, the most notable film to hit the big screen this year is the highlyanticipated completion of the most recent James Bond saga with Daniel Craig. After being postponed from March 2020, the 25th film in the Bond series, No Time To Die, will premier on 30 September before finally making its way into cinemas, including The Little Theatre Cinema, throughout October.

parkland and children’s play area and visit the Halloween craft activities on your way. Collect stamps as you go and pick up your sweets at the trick or treat station. Dress up in your very best costumes and join the museum for an American style fancy dress parade. The most fantastic costume will win a prize! americanmuseum.org LUCKNAM PARK: WEEKEND ESCAPE 9 & 10 October n Lucknam Park Hotel & Spa For one special weekend, Lucknam Park is welcoming back Teddy the Shetland, who will be the hotel’s most treasured guest on 9 and and 10 October. Teddy will trot

Another exciting newcomer this month is Dune. Set in the far distant future, Frank Herbert’s sci-fi adeventure follows the Atreides dynasty, newly-declared stewards of the treacherous desert planet Arrakis. Brimming with Hollywood stars including Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya and Jason Momoa, to name just a few, it’s promising to be an intergalactic epic. See the full programme online: picturehouses.com/cinema/littletheatre-cinema

through the gates of Lucknam Park to spend the day exploring the hotel’s 500 acres of parkland. Over the weekend, families can embark on an exciting treasure hunt with Teddy in tow searching for his beloved brushes throughout Lucknam Park’s most iconic spots, such as the treelined driveway and the Rose Garden. The hunt will be followed by a BBQ in the gardens, feasting on locally sourced meat and produce from neighbouring farms. lucknampark.co.uk GREAT BATH FEAST’S BATH BITES TRAIL 24–26 October n At various locations around Bath

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

october 2021

➲

theBATHMagazine 25

what's on - october.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 18:25 Page 3

LOCAL | EVENTS

Private Lives at Theatre Royal Bath

An evening with Nigella Lawson on 25 November

LOOKING AHEAD Following on from the success of The Great Bath Feast’s festival weekend, the celebrations will continue throughout October with The Bath Bites Trail and a series of foodie fringe events. Showcasing signature dishes from over forty of the city’s restaurants, cafés and pubs and highlighting local specialities, light bites, more substantial main meals, sweet treat suggestions and popular drinks, visitors can enjoy a day or two of indulgence whilst touring the city. greatbathfeast.co.uk PRIVATE LIVES 28 October – 6 November n Theatre Royal Bath Theatre Royal Bath is hosting a new production of Private Lives, the inaugural show from Nigel Havers’ new theatre company which will be touring the country with a line-up of theatrical gems. The Olivier Award-winning Patricia Hodge, one of the country’s most loved actresses, plays Amanda. Nigel Havers, ever suave and thoroughly charming, plays Elyot, the role taken by Noël Coward himself in the original production in 1930. theatreroyal.org.uk LAWRENCES AUCTIONEERS 29 October, 9am–5pm n Throughout Bath and Bristol Lawrences Auctioneers are running free home visits on 29 October from 9am–5pm. Valuer Andy Sagar will be available to value your objects and antiques throughout Bath and Bristol. lawrences.co.uk

26 TheBATHMagazine

ocTober 2021

iSSUe 224

FULLTONE ORCHESTRA 4 November n The Forum Led by the brilliantly talented musical director Anthony Brown, The Fulltone Orchestra is coming to The Forum on the 4 November, to coincide with Bonfire Night, an explosive and massively exciting evening of classical music. Commanding huge success whatever they turn their hand to, this orchestra will leave you feeling totally blown away. They are big and bold and on the night they will be playing the world’s most combustive musical treats from Holst to Barber and Bernstein to Tchaikovsky, all fireworkesque full of light and shade and even some boom sound effects in the final number. fto.org.uk AN EVENING WITH MIRIAM MARGOLYES 12 November, 7.30pm n Bath Pavilion Spend an evening in the company of one of Britain's favourite (and naughtiest) national treasures, as she shares stories from her remarkable life. BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury’s Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam is one of the most recognisable actresses working today. Now, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her life story in her long-awaited memoir, This Much Is True. fane.co.uk

AN EVENING WITH GIOVANNA FLETCHER 23 November, 7.30pm n Bath Pavilion Join the number one bestselling author and I'm A Celebrity's Queen of the Castle for a conversation about writing and her brand new book, Walking On Sunshine. Hear Giovanna discuss her heart-warming and uplifting new novel about loss, friendship and unrequited love, and take the chance to ask her the questions you’ve always wanted to ask in the audience Q&A. fane.co.uk AN EVENING WITH NIGELLA LAWSON 25 November, 7.30pm n Bath Pavilion The internationally renowned food writer and TV cook has eleven bestselling books to her name and several successful TV series. Spend an evening with Nigella as she shares the rhythms and rituals of her kitchen to celebrate her latest publication Cook, Eat, Repeat – a delicious and delightful combination of recipes intertwined with narrative essays about food, all written in Nigella’s engaging and insightful prose. fane.co.uk

SEE OUR WEBSITE FOR UPDATES AND NEW EVENTS ADDED THROUGHOUT THE MONTH

P25.qxp_Layout 22 23/09/2021 11:25 Page 1

SAVE THE DATE Bath Abbey

Saturday 27th November 2021 - 7.30pm Join us for the world premiere of Paul Carr’s beautiful Four New Seasons with

Braimah Kanneh-Mason performing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Bath Philharmonia Conductor Gavin Carr

Tickets available from Bath Box Office from October on 01225 463362 www.bathminervachoir.co.uk

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 27

P28.qxp_Layout 22 24/09/2021 10:50 Page 1

Elaine Peto sitting lurcher £350

28 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOBeR 2021

issue 224

Neil Davies Coastal Crofts Isle of Skye £5000

Neil Pinkett pulteney bridge £995

P29.qxp_Layout 23 22/09/2021 15:26 Page 1

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 29

ARTS - oct.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 16:30 Page 1

ART | EXHIBITIONS

ARTS & EXHIBITIONS

Bath Society of Artists 116th Annual Exhibition Victoria Art Gallery, Bath BA2 4AT, until 20 November Now in its 116th year, this hugely popular exhibition showcases the best of the region’s artistic talent. Any artist aged 18 or over was able to submit work for possible selection, and all of the artworks are for sale. The exhibits include paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints and mixed media. Bath Society of Artists was founded in 1904 with 26 members. It has grown over the years to a membership of about 120 diverse artists. Many distinguished 20th-century painters have exhibited with the Society including Walter Sickert, John Singer Sargent, Philip Wilson Steer, Gilbert Spencer, Patrick Heron, Mary Fedden, William Scott and Howard Hodgkin.

Rebecca Campbell, Akiko Hirai and Linda Felcey, Beaux Arts Bath, 12-13 York Street, Bath BA1 1NG During October and November, Beaux Arts will be showing Still • Life, a new collection of oil paintings by Rebecca Campbell. These life-enhancing paintings burst with iridescent colour and life, and are an homage to Persian miniature paintings, with their reverence for nature, architecture and gardens. Also on show will be new still lifes by Linda Felcey. Her delicate oils celebrate the prosaic but transient qualities of objects – seasonal blossom, or ceramic vessels, captured in changing light. Ceramics are by the renowned London-based Japanese artist Akiko Hirai.

victoriagal.org.uk Image: Orchard by Tim Carroll

Image: Finding Paradise by Rebecca Campbell

beauxartsbath.co.uk

Shooting Stars: Carinthia West, Britain and America in the 1970s, American Museum & Gardens, Bath BA2 7BD, until 31 October Carinthia West’s intimate photographs of rock and film stars of the 1970s in America – and in particular on the glorious beaches of Malibu in California – present an upbeat and buoyant view of the decade that should remind us of the outstanding music and the great design of this much-maligned period. Carinthia West’s fascinating photographs demonstrate that the 1970s was a decade of bright colours, fun, and self-expression. americanmuseum.org

30 TheBATHMagazine

ocTober 2021

iSSUe 224

Image: Pink Floyd Animals shoot, 1976

P33.qxp_Layout 23 24/09/2021 16:36 Page 1

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 31

ARTS - oct.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 17:45 Page 2

ART | EXHIBITIONS

Image: The Blue Bower by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

October Fair, Bath Contemporary Artists’ Fair, Green Park Station, 10 October Bath Contemporary Artists’ Fair is delighted to welcome everyone back to its October fair, with an amazing 150 artists showing their work leading up to December. The fair is committed to bringing the best of contemporary art from the city and beyond right to the heart of Bath. Following on from the successful and popular fairs last year, visitors can browse the brilliant works of local artists and admire fine art, photography, sculpture and textiles, all under the vaulted glass roof of Green Park Station. For updates and exhibiting artists visit the website. bcaf.co.uk

Image by Rachel Ward

Emma Rose Artworks, Bath Contemporary Artists Fair, Green Park Station. 10 October Emma Rose is a contemporary artist specialising in semiabstract and impressionistic painting with an emphasis on colour and texture. She has developed an original style melding Indian and French inks with acrylic paints, producing vibrant and arresting work with a fluidity and passion for life. Emma will be exhibiting her original contemporary paintings, limited edition giclée prints, art cushions and cards at the Bath Contemporary Artists Fair on Sunday 10 October, 10am–5pm. She will be available to chat to about commissions, her interior design service, and colourful creative ideas. emmaroseartworks.com

The Holburne Museum, Great Pulteney Street, Bath Hornet, Hailstone, Crab Eye, Aerodrome…(etc), until 3 January This exhibition presents the fruits of a recent anagama kiln firing by Aaron Angell and Steven Claydon. These two leading British artists share an anachronistic approach to historical influence, in this instance in the vernacular of ceramics from late-medieval rural Japan from where anagama kilns originate. Rossetti’s Portraits, until 9 January A unique show devoted to the portaits of Dante Gabriel Rossetti including some of his most iconic artworks, which reveal the artist at the height of his creative powers, alongside his less well-known, but equally compelling early drawings of friends, family and fellow Pre-Raphaelite artists. Sunil Gupta: The New Pre-Raphaelites, until 19 January A display of photographs by Sunil Gupta that explore the legacy of the Pre-Raphaelites and their influence on contemporary art. Gupta’s photographs allude to works by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an artistic movement founded in 1848, only a few years before Section 377 (which was used to prosecute homosexual activity) was introduced. Thomas Lawrence Coming of Age, throughout October This virtual exhibition gives fresh insight into the first 25 years of one of Britain’s greatest portrait painters.

Image: Beside the Pier by Emma Rose

32 TheBATHMagazine

ocTober 2021

iSSUe 224

holburne.org

P31.qxp_Layout 23 24/09/2021 16:37 Page 1

BRIL-LIANT SCHOLARSHIP IDENTIFIES LOST MASTERPIECE…

A remarkable rediscovery in the West Country has unearthed a 17th-Century masterpiece that could make £70,000 at auction in October. The 65 x 89cm oil on canvas has been fully authenticated as the work of the notable Flemish artist Paul Bril (1554-1626). It depicts a mountainous landscape with satyrs and goats by a gushing cascade and is thought to date from 1616-1619. It is signed P. BRILL D “It is an extraordinary find in two ways,” explains Richard Kay at Lawrences in Crewkerne who will be auctioning the picture on October 13th. “Not only is it very rare to find such a fine and genuine work by this Flemish master in England but there is an unexpected extra element of interest. Thanks to the expertise of Drs. Luuk Pijl, the Bril authority in the Netherlands, he believes that this canvas is very probably the picture depicted in the background of Willem van Haeght’s `Cabinet of Cornelis van der Geest` (1626), now in the Rubenshuis in Antwerp.” Bril, born in Breda, began his artistic career by painting landscapes on harpsichords before travelling to Rome in 1576. The artist established a reputation in Rome, working on Papal commissions in the Vatican and mingling with fellow artists such as Jan Brueghel, Adam Elsheimer and Bartolomeus Breenbergh. He died in 1626, leaving a substantial body of work in his estate. “The picture, previously unknown to scholars and unpublished, is thought to have belonged to Cornelius van der Geest,” says Richard. “Its later history is a little unclear but it was certainly owned by Thomas Ware Smart (1810-1881), an ancestor of our vendors and an Australian art dealer who had a gallery in Sydney. It has been treasured by his descendants ever since, with a degree of nagging uncertainty about the traditional attribution to Bril. We are delighted to have secured the full approval of Drs. Pijl who describes it as `an exciting and important discovery`. He will be including it in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné on Bril’s oeuvre in oil. Our vendors are thrilled that it has been received so enthusiastically by the world’s leading authority on Bril.” The picture will be included in Lawrences’ auction on October 13th, with an estimate of £50,000-70,000.

FREE VALUATIONS AVAILABLE: In Person | Online | Email | Phone | WhatsApp Home visits available on request. T: 01460 73041 E: enquiries@lawrences.co.uk

Lawrences AUCTIONEERS The Linen Yard, South Street, Crewkerne, Somerset TA18 8AB. T 01460 73041

lawrences.co.uk

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 33

ARTS - oct.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 17:45 Page 3

ART | EXHIBITIONS

David Ringsell: Pandemic City Bath Painter David Ringsell’s most recent work is inspired by the pandemic, with his latest series entitled Pandemic City Bath. David’s work is currently being exhibited at The Woolverton Gallery (see below), The Artery Art Café in Richmond Place and Conscious Café in Northumberland Place. David loves to share his artistic impressions of Bath, his home city. His unique and contemporary art prints of Bath show a different and sometimes darker side of the city and his paintings of Bath architecture don’t shy away from the stained stonework and peeling paint that are part of many buildings. Custom prints are also available in a range of sizes – visit the wesbite for more details. real-images.com

Image: Georgian Lights by David Ringsell

Bath Natural History Society: Anniversary Exhibition at BRLSI, Queen Square, 7–25 October, Monday to Saturday, 10am to 4pm. The Bath Nats have been recording the variety of wildlife found in the city and its surrounds since 1941. This exhibition illustrates the significant gains and losses that have occurred over the years, with examples from early floras and records from a multitude of field visits to the woodlands, downlands, riverside and parks that make the area so attractive. Details of local nature walks are provided with a map showing the most interesting places to see wildlife. Bath Nats also has a regular programme of talks which promote the wider appreciation of our natural environment. bathnats.org.uk

School of Paris, David Simon Contemporary, 37 High Street, Castle Cary BA7 7AW, 7–30 October

Autumn Exhibition, Woolverton Gallery, Bath BA2 7RH, throughout October The Woolverton Gallery’s first exhibition featured the work of well-known Bath artists such as David Wilkey and Brian Elwell, as well as many other contributors from further afield. The gallery is now increasing its number of artists to 28 and will showcase over 110 pieces in its five exhibition rooms. The emphasis is on colourful, contemporary artwork in a variety of styles. Ray Jones, gallery owner, will be present to show guests around and to answer questions about all the wonderful exhibits. Woolverton Gallery is also taking part in the Somerset Open Studios event until 3 October. bathartsales.com

34 TheBATHMagazine

Image: Five a Day Past Perfect III by Sabine Abraham

ocTober 2021

iSSUe 224

A collection of original works on paper by some of the most influential names from the 20th century. Exceptional drawings by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse and Joan Miró are shown with rare, signed original linocuts, lithographs and etchings by Georges Braque, Salvador Dali, and Pablo Picasso. This curated collection eloquently tells the story of this seminal period in modern art and transports the viewer to Bohemian Paris. Opening hours: Monday – Saturday 10am–5.30pm (closed Wednesday and Sunday). davidsimoncontemporary.com Image: Angel Bay by Marc Chagall, lithograph, 1960

P35.qxp_Layout 23 24/09/2021 11:27 Page 1

Online silver buying DUNCAN CAMPBELL

Don’t do it

Antique silver specialist

hen I began dealing, the old sages of the silver trade used to kindly and freely pass on their nuggets of trade wisdom, in the certain knowledge that they would be long gone before I was any sort of competition to them.

Among other ‘golden rules’ was, “never, ever buy anything without viewing it.” Viewing being in the context of a sale view, meaning handling, not just looking. A dozing silver dealer once famously bought a cheap set of four candlesticks as the lot was being pointed out by the auction porter. Only when he went to pay did he discover that he’d bought the – now rather expensive – pair on display in front of a mirror. I was also warned about the time that half the London trade had raced up to an auction in Liverpool hoping to buy a very handsome looking five-piece tea set on a rare matching tray. The set had been pictured in the Antiques Trade Gazette with a tantalisingly low estimate. Only when they got into the room did they find the charming 2-inch high miniature tea set on offer. Clearly there are things, even antiques, that can be reliably bought on the strength of a photograph, but old silver is not one of them. The issue isn’t just that repairs and faults can be hidden, because a really good patina or very clever silversmithing is just as hard to assess through a camera lens. Anyone actually in the saleroom is in a position to drop out of the bidding sooner if there are problems, or to go one extra bid for an exceptional example, either way the remote bidder loses. I say all this as a complete hypocrite, because we occasionally sell things on Ebay. The digital world can address my inconvenient golden rule by providing a robust returns policy which often leads to robust disagreements too. I have to confess that I never buy silver on Ebay but I’m continually both amazed and delighted that others do. P.S. So far no returns nor arguments. n beaunashbath.com; 01225 334234

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 35

Midge Naylor June.qxp_Layout 1 22/09/2021 14:55 Page 1

ARTS

Painted imaginings

Midge Naylor is a painter whose work sparkles with energetic imagination. Eschewing any physical visual references, her inspiration is drawn from her memories of the Scottish landscapes of her childhood, says Emma Clegg just clicked with me, and something set me off. And I thought ‘Right I’m going to go back to work’, and I started working again part time. I’ve had a studio at BV Studios since it opened in 2010.” Midge remembers one of her art teachers at school telling her that she had an exceptional visual imagination. “I didn’t know what he was talking about then,” she explains. “Now I realise that I have. The way I paint now is driven by the materials I use, and it’s based on the East Lothian landscape that I grew up in. I start painting and I have no idea what’s going to happen and I work the paint in layers driven by the paint and by mark-making.” This creative instinct and almost mystical process can be seen clearly in Midge’s paintings, with their fluid marks and amorphous, textured brushwork and palette knife applications, where you see the energy of the broad landscape but also the gauzy, scratched impressions of trees, boats, structures, pieces of furniture. Sometimes they are buried in the landsape of the canvas; at other times they sit centre stage. “I begin with a relaxed application of paint using a palette knife and brushes then introduce improvised marks – scratched, scraped, rubbed and brushed and often smoothed with a gloved hand. Drawing into the wet paint with charcoal, graphite and oil bars sees the emergence of figurative motifs which are developed through an extended dialogue with the painting itself, which hovers between abstract and figuration a lot of the time,” she says.

36 TheBATHMagazine

ocTober 2021

iSSUe 224

❝

I have such strong memories of looking out to sea in my house in East Lothian... These are the landscapes of my imagination

❝

ainters who depict the landscape around them can spend a lifetime exploring their subjects. For Claude Monet it was plein air landscapes in his Giverny garden; for Paul Gaugin it was the rich and glowing hues of the islands of West Polynesia; for John Constable it was the glorification of nature in his Sussex home in Dedham Vale. Landscapes in contemporary painting – with its compulsion to find a new vocabulary – may feel less accessible because we don’t always recognise the story. But painter Midge Naylor’s artistic imagination has such a connection, indelibly linked to the fishing and mining community where she grew up and the landscape of her childhood, the Lammermuir Hills in East Lothian. “I have such strong memories of looking out to sea in my mum’s house in East Lothian. That is what haunts me. And these are the landscapes of my imagination,” she says. “Everything I do is a result of a visual experience that’s stored inside me. If I think of it now I can see the landscape quite clearly that I used to look out on when I was a child.” Midge wanted to go to art school when she was 18, but she was persuaded not to by her mother. “My mum was terrified that I would become unemployable, so I didn’t go.” So she worked for years as a commercial painter and decorator in film and television, including productions such as Casualty when it was filmed in Bristol, which she tells me firmly was not a creative role, it just paid the bills. So her art education started later, when she made her way to study Fine Art at UWE in Bristol in the early 1990s when she was living in Bath and her daughter first started school. “Art college is a wonderful thing, because it gives you an overview of what you are doing while you are doing it, but my work was completely different then because I was fascinated by figurative art.” The definitive spur for the creative journey she has been on since came during a visit to St Ives, Midge says. “Even as a mature student I was quite naïve and being at art school brought me up short. So I came out after four years and went straight back to work and nothing much happened for a few years. And then suddenly I had this revelation in St Ives when I saw this painting by Peter Lanyon, the Cornish artist, and it

“Markmaking is very important in the construction of an artwork. For me the most important thing is layering and form and I will keep layering and changing until it feels as if it works. Colour and surface are important, too. And you get beautiful marks and effects by breaking through the surface by scraping. My canvases are psychological landscapes, painting using landscape as a state of being.” Midge’s work has an established niche; she was elected into the Bath Society of Artists and has won ‘Best Regional Artist Award’ at the Royal West of England Academy where she became an Academician in 2012. During lockdown, Midge explains, Instagram has been the stand-out forum for artists to sell their work, but this hasn’t been a natural transition for her. “Generally selling art is all about baring your soul to the public, and a lot of people do that on Instagram. I’m just not keen on that. I put pictures up and I get lots of likes but I don’t expose myself that much. Sometimes it feels as if buyers want to own you a little bit, but that's natural if they like the work.” Perhaps this anti let’s-confess-all approach is needed to keep the sweeping mystique of this work intact. Bring back the subtlety, the unexplained, is the rally cry. In the words of Vanessa Lacey, the owner of the Irving Contemporary gallery in Oxford where Midge sells her work, “These paintings defy any sort of literal reading; even when there is a landscape within the picture, it does not abide by the rules of the real world, since here we are in a different landscape of the psyche.” n Midge Naylor’s painting Inside Edge is included in the Bath Society of Artists 116th Annual Exhibition at the Victoria Art Gallery, from 2 October – 20 November; midgenaylor.co.uk; irvingcontemporary.com

Midge Naylor June.qxp_Layout 1 22/09/2021 14:55 Page 2

CITY | INTERIORS

ABOVE, clockwise from top: Drift; Little Dream; Inside Edge PREVIOUS PAGE: River Tales THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

october 2021

theBATHMagazine 37

alice V2.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 11:28 Page 1

CITY | INTERVIEW

Discovering wonderland

Emma Clegg talks to local director Dione Orrom about a new documentary which explores the V&A’s Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser exhibition, releasing in independent cinemas this month

ublished in 1865 and 1871, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodson) have become imprinted on the memories of the children who read them, and have had an enduring impact on those who have played with stories, visuals and ideas ever since, from suffragettes, artists and musicians to theatre, film and fashion creatives. The stories, never out of print, have been translated into 170 languages. The uppermost theme in the novels is of an innocent world of games and fun with characters such as the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty and Tweedledum and Tweedledee who have secured their place in popular culture and within our everyday language with phrases such as “mad as a hatter”, “off with their heads”, and “Cheshire Cat grin”. The power of the stories comes from their multiple layers, spiked with madness, irreverence, illogicality and a topsy-turvy world where anything is possible – Alice, after all, can grow bigger and smaller, step into another world through a mirror and talk to flowers in the garden. The fun and fantastical elements also have many abstract depths. Alice knows her own mind, and represents a strong and independent female figure, highly unusual for the Victorian era when girls did not go to school and whose behaviour was defined by the rigid morals of the time. Alice’s forthright perspective is perhaps one of the reasons why these stories have had such an enduring legacy, because everything (especially the nonsense) is questioned, creating multiple

OPPOSITE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser exhibition at V&A Museum; Print by Peter Blake illustrating Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, 1970, © Peter Blake; Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser exhibition at V&A; Gold Label ensemble by Vivienne Westwood, Spring/Summer 2015 © UGO Camera; Override, by artist Anna Gaskell, Solomon R Guggenheim Muesum © Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne BELOW: Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser exhibition at V&A, 2021

layers of meaning and the probing of the abstract and philosophical. “When I first went to the Alice exhibition at the V&A,” explains Dione Orrom, “what I loved was how it explored themes and ideas that really opened up how I thought about Alice, and the realisation that Alice is so culturally embedded. Looking at how it has changed over time, how different mediums take Alice and how she can be different things to different people.” Bath-based Dione is the director of a new documentary about an exhibition at the V&A Museum, Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, which opened in May this year and runs until the end of December. An immersive and theatrical show, it explores the origins, adaptations and reinventions of the Alice stories over 157 years, and charts the evolution of Alice’s adventures in Wonderland from manuscript to a global phenomenon. The documentary film is a medium that has attached itself to big art concepts in recent years – the dramatised documentary Pompeii in 2003, David Bowie Is in 2013 again linked to a V&A exhibition, and Matisse in 2019. “What is most exciting about events cinema – adapting theatre and shows into live cinema – is that they can take a show to people who wouldn’t be able to go and see it,” Dione explains. “This exhibition translates beautifully to film because it is so immersive and a magical journey and I really hope that’s what we have captured on film.” Dione reminds me that Charles Dodson’s story started off as a tale he told on a golden afternoon on a river journey to three sisters. “It was a simple story, but the exhibition investigates on how many levels it was working. Dodson was a scientist and a polymath, but he also loved nonsense and games and curiosities, so there are so many layers to it which still provoke our interest today.” Many of the works influenced by the Alice stories have become legends in themselves, from Vivienne Westwood’s Red Label AutumnWinter 2011/12 collection, Yayoi Kusama’s visionary illustrations to the books and the works of Salvador Dali to the dark fantasy film by Jan Švankmajer (1988) and Tim Walker’s 2018 visionary Pirelli Calendar of Alice with an all-black cast. This breadth is captured in the exhibition and made the process of permissions and copyright for the film particularly complex, Dione explains. The documentary – presented by senior V&A curator Kate Bailey and broadcaster Andi Oliver, with Alice played by young actress Olivia Wells – follows the five Alice-inspired worlds in the exhibition with close-ups of key objects and insightful interviews with guest contributors including Peter Black and Ralph Steadman. The exhibition has an immersive soundscape, and some of the soundtrack was used to complement and mix with the specially commissioned music in the film, from composer James Pickering. “An exhibition relates to the physical space, whereas a film needs to capture and immerse the viewer in a different way and and so the music was important for the emotional journey,” says Dione. The film is 90 minutes long, and the main challenge was achieving this, gradually editing it down from the first two-and-a-half-hour version. The relevance of the themes today makes this emotional journey easier. “Alice speaks Truth to Power,” says Dione. “You realise that anybody can be Alice and it’s the notion that she challenges and questions things, and takes on her own adventure. She is afraid and brave. She is all kinds of things, but it’s the idea of questioning and standing up to power that endures.” n The V&A Presents Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, produced and distributed by Trafalgar Releasing, launches in independent cinemas nationwide including the Little Theatre Cinema, Bath, from 14 October.

38 theBATHMagazine

october 2021

issue 224

alice V2.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 13:31 Page 2

CITY | INTERVIEW

“Many of the works influenced by Alice have become legends in themselves, from Vivienne Westwood’s Red Label Autumn-Winter 2011/12 collection... to Tim Walker’s 2018 visionary Pirelli Calendar”

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK THEBATHMAG.CO.UK| noVeMber 2010 | january 2020 THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

october 2021

| |

theBATHMagazine 29 51 theBATHMagazine 39

Bosco.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 12:20 Page 1

RESTAURANT | REVIEW

Bosco Pizzeria Milsom Place, Bath BA1 1BZ; Tel: 01225 690001; boscopizzeria.co.uk

Review

Emma Clegg samples Bath’s newest pizzeria in Milsom Place, does some background research on the Neapolitan pizza, and sees it being prepared in all its wood-fired glory

40 TheBATHMagazine

ocToBeR 2021

iSSUe 224

(traditional salami mixed with fennel seeds), caramelised onions and rosemary. Classic pasta dishes are also included – such as spaghetti Fra Diavolo and alla Carbonara – and large plates such as Tagliata con Rucola (rare sliced hanger steak with rocket and parmesan) and Venetian Fisherman’s Stew. After small plates of salty house-baked focaccia with Pugliese olive oil and balsamic vinegar and fat Nocellara del Belice olives from south west Sicily and chilled beers, we ordered the Calabrian pizza and the Ribollita, a classic and deliciously intense Tuscan stew with cannellini, borlotti, spinach, cavolo nero and tomato. Two substantial side dishes – a Zucca salad with butternut squash, curled purple flourishes of radicchio, pear, salted pecans, maple dressing and parmesan shavings, and a health-boosting dish of artichoke with stracciatella (buffalo milk cheese) and pangrattato (breadcrumbs) – completed the multi-textured table.

❝ We ordered the Calabrian pizza and the

Ribollita, a classic and deliciously intense Tuscan stew...

❝

asic flatbreads with cooked vegetable toppings were enjoyed in ancient cultures; now the eating of pizza is a worldwide experience of which we all take ownership. Bosco Pizzeria doesn’t go back as far as that, but it already has two restaurants in Bristol, one on Whiteladies Road and another in Clifton Village, and their offering has been reviewed as “the best pizza outside of Italy”. You’ll now find their latest venue in Bath in Milsom Place in the location occupied until 2018 by Argentinian steak restaurant, Cau. Frustrated by the lack of Neapolitan-style pizza in the UK, the Bosco team took inspiration from restaurants in New York and San Francisco specialising in this pizza style, first made there by Italian immigrants to the United States in the early 20th century. Neapolitan pizza is characterised by a soft, thin crust prepared in a very hot oven. The dough uses 00 flour, creating a supple and fluffy consistency and most are baked in a wood-fired pizza oven at a temperature of 800–1000ºF. The crust is typically blackened by the fire, with puffed edges, and is very thin towards the middle with fresh mozzarella being the name of the game. The menu at Bosco Pizzeria offers pizza rosso and pizza bianca, rosso a thin, tasty crust spread with savoury tomato sauce and bianca a bubbly pizza crust topped with olive oil and salt. Prepared in the large central open-plan kitchen within the restaurant, diners see the hot wood-fired pizza ovens and the manic activity around them as the pizzas take shape in the heat as part of the evening’s entertainment. It’s an expansive venue – two floors, an upstairs openair balcony and a generous number of tables outside stretching along the paved courtyard – and on the balmy Monday evening we visited it was buzzing with activity. The menu offers pizza rosso, ranging from the classic Bosco with mozzarella with parmesan, tomato and basil to Calabrian with nduja (spicy pork sausage), mozzarella, parmesan and tomato datterino (sweet plum cherry tomatoes) and Carcioifi with wood-roasted artichokes, tomato, mozzarella, taleggio, green olives and pecorino. The bianco alternatives include Queen Green with spinach and pesto, pine nuts and Porchetta Bianca with borchetta, salame finocchiona

This is an upmarket pizza experience and the service was smooth, prompt and uber friendly As we savoured our Affogato (vanilla gelato and espresso) and Zeppole, a toppling pile of Italian doughnuts served with custard and lemon curd, we felt that those early 20th-century Italian immigrants would have approved. n Prices: focaccia and olives £7; Caprese and Zucca salads £6; Calabrian pizza rosso £11.50; Ribollita stew £12; desserts £6

Lucknam Park fp.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 10:08 Page 1

Extra Delicious OCTOBER .qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 12:27 Page 1

EXTRA DELICIOUS

THE DELICIOUS GUIDE TO BATH 2021

Here are some new additions and featured favourites from our 2021 guide to all the best places to eat, drink and enjoy in Bath. See our website or search ‘Delicious Guide to Bath’

VERO’S

A GREAT NEW DELI

Milsom Place, Milsom Street & Broad Street, Bath BA1 1BZ Tel: 01225 789040 Web: milsomplace.co.uk/stores/veros/ Opened at the end of July by proud owner Veronica, Vero’s presents a new concept of Spanish inspired cafe/deli that is not just tapas! With a chilled, welcoming and bright atmosphere, guests are greeted with top quality service. Although Spanish born, Veronica has lived in Bath for 22 years and is co-owner of sister company, The Colombian Company. Using her links to Spanish food and culture, Veronica uses fresh, top quality Spanish ingredients to make her best selling toasties, baguettes, Spanish omelettes and filled croissants. Vero’s also boasts a great range of drinks and both new and traditional Spanish products that you can take home with you! Always growing and expanding, Vero’s hopes to bring in seasonal foods such as soups in the winter.

DOUGH PIZZA

PIZZERIA PERFECTION

14–16 The Corridor, Bath BA1 5AP Tel: 01225 443686 9 Kingsmead Square, Bath BA1 2AB Tel: 01225 422320 Web: doughpizzarestaurant.co.uk Proudly independent, family-run pizzerias, with venues in The Corridor and Kingsmead Square, Dough combines years of expertise and the best ingredients to bring you first-rate pizza, every time. With a focus on pizza for everyone, Dough offers 13 alternative health-giving bases, from kamut to hemp, grano arso, multigrain and more, alongside traditional sourdough. Gluten-free and vegan pizzas are a particular speciality. You’ll find all the classics from margheritas to marinaras alongside pizza parcels, star-shaped pizzas and gourmet specials such as La Gina with ‘fior di latte’ mozzarella, caramelised onion, crispy speck, olive pâté, ricotta, pistachios and parmesan discs, based on turmeric dough. Warm, family-friendly service, dough-spinning entertainment and plenty of Italian charm ensures that any visit to Dough is a memorable one.

AMATHUS 6 Green Street, Bath BA1 2JY Tel: 01225 335663 Web: amathusdrinks.com Amathus Bath only opened in 2018, but the family company has forty years’ experience in sourcing and selling the world’s finest drinks. The selection ranges from classic Scotch to small batch gins; craft beers to boutique wines direct from the estate (plus everything you can imagine in between). In short, it is Bath’s one-stop shop for your drinks cabinet. The expert team are always happy to advise, or you can attend one of the regular tasting events to try something new and very delicious.

42 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOBeR 2021

iSSUe 224

BOUTIQUE BOTTLES

The Circus fp.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 10:08 Page 1

dh lawrence.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 15:19 Page 1

CITY GUEST | INTERIORS | COLUMNIST

The relevance of Lawrence

On the centenary of the publication of Women in Love, Gerie Herbert takes on the literary defence of author and writer D.H. Lawrence who endured a searing critique and censorship in his lifetime and beyond – can his work be considered anew as a relevant voice?

“

ove, love: why do I feel I would have known and loved Lawrence – how many women must feel this and be wrong!” It might have been intriguing to know if Sylvia Plath’s selection of Lawrence as a kind of literary forebearer, her appreciation of the leaves and earth and beasts and weathers in his work, could have withstood the intensity of the feminist critique that followed some decade or so after her death. A critique ensuring the work of Lawrence was not to be held up by any right-thinking woman, or one that held any scintilla of outward respect for herself. If Lawrence was censored in his lifetime, Kate Millett’s 1970’s classic Sexual Politics pinioned him down as a crucible of misogynism, and came as the last onslaught in a line of many, including the infamous 1960’s trial of Lady Chatterley. Lawrence’s reputation never fully recovered. And yet this writer from the most modest of backgrounds created almost 800 poems, a wealth of novels, short stories and some of the greatest travel writing. The son of a coal miner, he had taken his stint on the factory floor, before progressing to University College, Nottingham. Still Lawrence differentiated himself from most young men irrespective of class, becoming not just a good writer, but a truly great one according to F.R Leavis, the great critic of the age. A writer recognised by other great writers like Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and Phillip Larkin, as well as by playwright Tennessee Williams, by Aldous Huxley and by Antony Burgess who held Lawrence up as a writer who had to prevail against the weight of a literary establishment that had him down as an interloper. It seems an amazement that a boy from a small mining community, ridden with tuberculosis could follow such a trajectory at all and at such a deeply conservative time.

44 TheBATHMagazine

ocToBeR 2021

iSSUe 224

But then swiftly as he rose, Lawrence disappeared from syllabuses and bookshelves, and you weren’t supposed to like his work. He was filthy and facile and self-indulgent. Was there any point resuscitating a writer whose name has become synonymous with all the more salacious bits readers had gleaned from perhaps his thinnest work, Lady Chatterley, or the biographical knowledge gathered about his terrible marriage or his complex relationship with his mother. Lawrence had been held up as a pornographer in chief and a hater of women for a long time, he had put ideas so contentious in his novel The Rainbow that he had had it condemned in a court and burned publicly. At one point an innocuous Lawrence even fell under suspicion of spying and was accused later by readers of being a quasi-fascist despite the fact he had openly condemned Fascism as the worst kind of bullying. Lawrence, if readers had sense, should be discarded, and even if you could rekindle his reputation, why would you? Because even the most ardent admirer of Lawrence can’t deny some of the more uncomfortable parts of his writing or biography. There exists huge warmth, kindness, and a rare truthfulness, but reading Lawrence can be a bit like reading one of the more sublimely compassionate parts of the New Testament to uncover an Old Testament god of thunderbolts rampaging within it. Lawrence’s work in terms of opinions, emotion and tone contains multitudes. For many he is exhausting and polemical. And for a world in which nobody any longer reads digressive novels by anyone, let alone books where non-conformity is the only norm, societies where an eight-word tweet might cause offence, what relevance could Lawrence’s work still hold? For that very reason, quite a lot perhaps! Still if you want to tackle what remains

relevant in Lawrence you must first tackle the hurdle of gender. This autumn sees the release of two books with Lawrence as the central axis, Frances Wilson’s biography Burning Man: The Ascent of D.H Lawrence and Second Place by that most dispassionate of English writers Rachel Cusk. The interesting thing about both is not only are they written by intelligent women openly professing to loving the complexity and wildness of Lawrence, reintroducing discussion about his gender politics, both writers are forced to defend their interest in Lawrence openly. No woman can deny there are bits of Lawrence that induce eye-rolling or are so fantastical as to cause laughter (though ask if Mr Rochester or Mr Darcy have been the greatest of experiments in social realism!) but Lawrence’s heroines to the uninitiated hold far more complexity than you might imagine, and that perhaps is what attracts writers as first rate as Cusk, Wilson and Plath. There is good reason Sylvia Plath related to Ursula Brangwen of Women in Love, as a character mirroring her own fight for a fully realised autonomy. Lawrence’s female characters possess a genuine voice not simply because he is projecting his own puerile wishes onto them, which he sometimes is – Lady Chatterley is being written while his withered body is dying and failing him, Women in Love is being written by a man whose wife cuckolded him on his own honeymoon – but because there is genuine sympathy and kindness toward his female characters and a willingness for them to find equality. To some extent Lawrence’s female characters were projections of his own sexual fluidity and perhaps as a consequence their inner selves are richer and more believable.

dh lawrence.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 15:19 Page 2

Attracted to men and women, his books contain a measure of something that was only ever lived out on paper. Read the end of Women in Love and it will seem progressive even now and Ursula will seem every bit as believable as the male protagonist Birkin. Lawrence ‘is’ his female characters to some extent. Even in Lady Chatterley, Constance is the soul and Mellors the eye-candy. Balance between men and women lies at the centre of Lawrence’s philosophy. For though it was somewhat eccentric, he did have one. For Lawrence was no pornographer. Give any teenager permission to read Lady Chatterley and tell them it is about being with one person forever and see what happens. The idea of relationships without love was anathema to Lawrence. He simply understood that a society which insisted on looking respectable outwardly was often less so beneath the surface. Now we’re all sat cross-legged in mindfulness sessions, holding the mind and body in balance doesn’t seem that extraordinary and tackling shame and repression is our new normal for good reason.

❝

Lawrence was above all interested in how the mechanisation of culture had removed men and women from their instincts

❝

Lawrence was above all things interested in how the mechanisation of culture had removed men and women from their instincts and left them not knowing what they really felt about things. Though a deep lover of nature, the scarred industrial landscape that had surrounded him in his Nottinghamshire youth and the way it degraded people by sending them underground made a mark on him, and the ‘in-between’ bits of Lady Chatterley are the bits that contend with politics and the commodification not only of a landscape, but of people’s raw existences. For Lawrence’s recurring point is often about what happens to people when their lives are industrialised to the extent that they can no longer feel free to speak or act as an individual or know what it is to be the source of their own happiness. Lawrence’s chief concern being what happens to people when they make money their only god. At a time when rapid digitalisation has dizzied us so much that even our thoughts have been commodified without our express permission, where to speak against the herd is positively foolhardy, a view that encourages non-conformity held in check with natural sympathy, seems not only timely but deeply sensible. For all his wild eccentricities and the things he got blatantly wrong, for a man who died at the tender age of 44, Lawrence had rather a lot to say. Some of it encouraged people to examine their own existences and make sure their lives had lovely things in it that made them happy without recourse to money or innate servitude, and it was this perhaps that made him dangerous and worthy of continual censure. For Lawrence has continued to be condemned without recourse to any kind of further examination or admittance of nuance in a way that is without parallel. Here was the son of a miner, brim full of poetry, who neither ignored class nor was dullwitted enough to be bound by it. He was not remotely interested in men living out societal anger on the streets, he was interested in their senses being blunted so much by their working lives that they couldn’t appreciate all that was beautiful set out before them. He sought to make them look at it. Yes, you might not have wanted to be married to Lawrence, but neither would many have wanted to be parented by anybody in the Bloomsbury group; this didn’t stop us appreciating their work. If you have been put off ever looking at him, it will be interesting to see if writers such as Frances Wilson and Rachel Cusk can begin to make you change your mind. Start anywhere but Lady Chatterley, and if so, head straight for all the boring bits! n THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

october 2021

theBATHMagazine 45

City News – oct.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 10:56 Page 1

CITY | NEWS

CITYNEWS PLANS FOR INNOX MILLS A thriving mix of new homes, commercial workspaces, food and drinks outlets are planned for Innox Mills, bringing a vibrant new quarter to Trowbridge town centre. The plans, submitted to Wiltshire Council, include a mix of up to 300 high-quality houses and apartments, investment in the riverside, outdoor play areas for children, new links through the site to the town centre, plus green, open leisure spaces. There will be a big focus on independent food and drink, with space for artisan businesses and co-working space. There will also be regular events throughout the year. The development would regenerate a redundant brownfield site in the centre of Trowbridge that has laid derelict for 12 years, breathing new life into the historic buildings and giving a welldeserved boost to the county town. Innox Mills has been identified in the Local Plan for Trowbridge as a regeneration priority. Facebook.com/InnoxMills

PRESTIGIOUS NOMINATION Bath & North East Somerset Council's Film Office has been shortlisted for an internationally recognised award for its work on hit television period drama Bridgerton. The Location Managers Guild International (LMGI) award celebrates exemplary work above and beyond the usual service expected from a Film Office. Bath Film Office's small team coordinated numerous requests from the Bridgerton production for council services such as road closures, street furniture removal, street lighting removal and parking, as well as the use of the Assembly Rooms and rooms at the Guildhall. Bridgerton shot four blocks of recording in Bath between August and November 2019, filming more than 70 scenes which was television filming on a scale not seen before in Bath. Most of these were exterior street scenes but there were also big ballroom sequences filmed at the Assembly Rooms and the Guildhall. Two shops were converted into the Modiste dress shop and Gunter's Tea Rooms in the drama, with the Holburne Museum also used extensively for filming. Bath Film Office is up against five other Film Offices including Liverpool Film Office and Screen Queensland, Australia for the Outstanding Film Commission award. bathfilmoffice.co.uk

46 TheBATHMagazine

ocToBeR 2021

issue 224

ROOTS & RECORDS There’s a new store called Roots & Records in Broad Street, distinctive for the music and greenery in the windows and on the shelves. Here you can catch up with what’s happening in the world of music or grab some vinyl and take a perch at one of the listening boths and lose yourself in your own world. You will find a heavy hint of 80s alternative culture and the best collection of 80s vinyl. The store is also about the future – new releases abound and if they don’t have what you need, they will get it. Here’s a place where you can grab a coffee, browse and enjoy the atmosphere of a local independent store. chapter22rootsandrecords.com

BESPOKE MORTGAGE ADVICE Doug Miller and Aaron Taghdiri have recently launched a new business offering a bespoke mortgage advice service like no other. With a wealth of experience spanning almost two decades, at the forefront of their business is their resolution to offer clear, honest, professional mortgage advice while creating long-lasting relationships with clients and other businesses in Bath. Doug Miller said “The pandemic changed the way we all work, and it gave me time to think and reflect on how we could make a difference to not only my young family but others across the local community and beyond. We’re delighted to have chosen the Wallace and Gromit Grand Appeal, the Bristol Children's hospital charity, as our charity partner and will be heavily involved in donating and fundraising for them. This is just the first step in us being able to support the local community as our business continues to grow.” lansdownfs.co.uk

WALKERS STEP OUT FOR RUH A total of 200 walkers recently showed their support for their local hospital by taking part in the Walk of Life. The annual sponsored walk along the Kennet & Avon Canal is organised by the Royal United Hospitals Bath charity, The Forever Friends Appeal. To date, the event has raised over £25,000 and the total is set to rise further over the coming weeks. Funds raised help the charity invest in lifesaving medical equipment and services at the hospital. They help transform the lives of thousands of patients and families cared for every year, as well as the staff who are always there for us. Half of the walkers completed the full 26.2 mile marathon challenge from Bishops Cannings, near Devizes. The other half took on 10 miles from Bradford on Avon. All participants victoriously crossed the finish line at the Holburne Museum in Bath. foreverfriendsappeal.co.uk

P47.qxp_Layout 23 24/09/2021 13:37 Page 1

ocl A C C O U N TA N C Y

141 Englishcombe Lane, Bath BA2 2EL Tel: 01225 445507

www.oclaccountancy.com

Transfer a business If you transfer your sole trader or partnership business to a limited company, for capital gains tax (CGT) purposes it’s treated the same as if you sold your business at “market value” and if that’s more than the cost of the business assets transferred, the difference might be taxable as a capital gain. Incorporation relief However where all the assets of the business (apart from cash) are transferred to the company in exchange for shares, any capital gain is deferred until you sell or transfer those shares. However, this may not be the most tax efficient option and the rules allow you to elect not to defer the gain. If your business has Goodwill, then this will be a capital gain and could be deferred – but - if the gain is less than the your annual CGT exemption (and you have no other gains to declare) then it may be best to recognise the gain – and pay no tax on it. This will also mean that you can draw that goodwill value form the company without further tax to pay. Holdover relief If incorporation relief doesn’t apply or you have elected for it not to, you can instead elect for the capital gain to be held over. This means the gain is deferred until the company sells the assets that were transferred from the unincorporated business. As an example, if you transfer your business to a company in which you own all the shares, incorporation relief will apply to the gain unless an election is made for it not to apply. However, you and the company can jointly elect for incorporation relief not to apply meaning that the gain would be chargeable to tax. You can then also elect for holdover relief to apply instead and the effect of this is to defer the gain until the company sells the business assets transferred to it. Both incorporation and holdover relief can prevent a CGT charge when a business is transferred to a company but holdover relief is more flexible.

For tax saving tips contact us – call Marie Sheldrake, Tom Hulett or Mike Wilcox on 01225 445507

All change with the Trust Registration Service? As part of the continuing global effort to enhance tax transparency, the EU passed The Fourth Money Laundering Directive (4MLD) in 2015. The Directive set out a requirement for Member States to establish a central trust register. Under these regulations, trustees of certain trusts were required to maintain up-to-date records of all the beneficial owners of the trusts, including potential beneficiaries. Historically, this has meant that only tax paying trusts needed to formally register with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) using their online Trust Registration Service (TRS). All change The Fifth Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD), significantly extends the scope of the TRS, and it is estimated that up to ten times as many trusts will be affected with lots of small or non-tax paying trusts now needing to register who hadn’t previously. The changes will mean that all express trusts will now need to be registered with the TRS by 1st September 2022 or penalties will be imposed on the trustees. What needs to be done? The online TRS system, accessed via the Government Gateway, now requires Trustees or their Agent to enter basic details about the Trust, including the persons involved (Settlors, Trustees and Beneficiaries). The TRS must also be updated regularly with any changes to the Trust, for example a change of Trustees. Exemptions There are some trusts that will continue to be exempt from registration, but the list is small. It includes life policies that are held in trust, Charitable Trusts which are registered as a charity in the UK, or which are not required to register as a charity, and co-ownership Trusts set up to hold shares of property or other assets which are jointly owned by 2 or more people for themselves as ‘tenants in common’ (but not where anyone else owns an interest in that property). Trustee Responsibilities If you are a Trustee, you are responsible for registering the Trust with the TRS. Failure to do so is likely to result in penalties being charged by HMRC, so it is important that you are aware of your obligations and make sure you have complied by the deadline of the 1st September 2022. New Trusts will have 30 days in which to register with the TRS. Once registered, Trustees will have 30 days from when they are made aware of any changes to update the details. Next steps If you are unsure whether you need to register a Trust or you would like our assistance in registering the Trust with the TRS then please contact Hannah Welbourn on 01225 750000 or email hannah.welbourn@mogersdrewett.com We have a specialist trust team at Mogers Drewett, and can advise on all aspects of trust law, from creation to winding up, and providing ongoing assistance with trust administration.

Call Marie Sheldrake, Tom Hulett or Mike Wilcox on 01225 445507 to arrange a no-obligation meeting

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 47

Books Oct 21.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 15:04 Page 1

BOOKS

Autumn reads

Here are four books chosen and reviewed by bookseller Saskia Hayward at Topping & Co. with diverse themes of iconic music, money, and two narratives of lives lived in a remote location. Checkout-19 by Claire-Louise Bennett Claire-Louise Bennett’s previous book, Pond, marked her out as one to watch; an author who’s landed something akin to cult status. This is a hypnotic, absorbing chronicle of one woman’s solitary existence on the edge of a town by the sea in Ireland. For many of our booksellers it was a revelation, demonstrating a knack for writing that is hard to pin down and contain, but settles firmly under your skin. Hence why her latest novel has arrived with such anticipation. Much like Pond, it’s hard to say exactly what the subject of Checkout-19 is. In part, this is thanks to a defiant resistance against simple forms of storytelling. Instead, the book spirals between subjects: from school years to adolescent employment in a supermarket (at the titular Checkout 19) to a brilliant Calvinoesque story within a story about a character she invents called Tarquin Superbus. It’s a story of a life lived through books both read and written, of what it means to misremember a novel, and of how the written word can spill out and overtake our reality. Watching a man’s hands browse the canned section of a supermarket spurs a story of an orchestral conductor seducing the wives of fin de siècle Vienna. Books are understood as both material and transcendent – they are scattered around apartments, unopened; they are a means of trying out new identities; they are the lens through which you see and are seen. Inevitably, I suppose, a book about books is always equally a book about life itself. Life, equally, resists a singular narrative. Checkout-19 captures it in all its excess and profundity, its superfluous detail and symbology – all recorded with sharp humour and a shrewd eye. Vintage, £14.99 Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney Arguably the most anticipated literary release this year, the latest novel by Sally Rooney does not disappoint. It’s hard to build upon the foundation of success she has created with Conversations With Friends and Normal People, and what feels most admirable about Beautiful World, Where Are You is that it seems to signify a change in direction for Rooney’s work, whilst remaining as a novel her fans will love. The book focuses on Alice, a wealthy young novelist who has retreated to a remote town in Ireland, and goes on a date with Felix, a man working at a nearby warehouse. Meanwhile, back in Dublin, Alice’s friend Eileen and her old friend Simon grow closer and the boundaries of their friendship begin to change shape. What has remained is her familiar muted, spare prose style and her brilliantly precise, true-to-life 48 TheBATHMagazine

ocTober 2021

issue 224

dialogue. The first suggestion of a new direction comes in the initial chapter: a sudden change in tense transforms the scene from an interior world to one rendered entirely in exteriority, like a camera slowly panning out. It’s a shift in register that is unexpected and transformative, perfectly capturing Rooney’s ability to take you by surprise. Faber, £16.99 We Need To Talk About Money by Otegha Uwagba This is one of the most engaging pieces of non-fiction writing I’ve read recently. Otegha is a writer and journalist, founder of the organisation Women Who: A Community For Working Women and the podcast In Good Company. She has made a name for herself as a sharp, honest, and insightful commentator on contemporary millennial culture, race, and politics – and especially on how those dynamics intersect in the workplace. We Need To Talk About Money is a dissection of our cultural and private attitudes towards money, and everything that is enveloped within that: race, class, gender, age. Narrativised as a memoir, she draws on her own life experience to structure the book: from growing up on a council estate to gaining a scholarship to a private school, from her experiences working in advertising agencies and at VICE, it’s a choice which proves incredibly valuable. Her experiences of employment and the power dynamics within contemporary workplace culture are illuminating and profoundly resonate to the current working generation. It’s an utterly refreshing read: lucid, well-informed and thought-provoking. Otegha’s primary aim is to highlight the necessity for initiating open and honest communication regarding money. It’s helped by the fact she’s a fantastic writer, and the book has a shining clarity and charisma which makes it hard to put down. Harper Collins, £14.99 What They Heard by Luke Meddings Subtitled ‘how The Beatles, Beach Boys, and Bob Dylan listened to each other and changed music forever,’ What They Heard is a love letter to the most iconic music of the mid-60s enacted through a forensic tracing of interlinking influences and overlapping paths. The author, Luke Meddings, describes it as “an invitation to hear these familiar records anew.” His method is to reconstitute the songs firmly within the locale of the four-year period between ’63 and ’67 when they were created, deconstructing the sound, lyrics, and inspiration. Recording and release dates are tracked alongside wonderful descriptions of songs, and the result is that even the most overfamiliar of tunes are rendered strange, seductive, and revolutionary once more. Luke’s enthusiasm for his subject is felt and hard to resist. His methodological approach finds fascinating genetic overlap in the most unlikely of music, and proves a great reminder of the far-reaching nature of artistic influence. Weatherglass Books, £11.99 n toppingbooks.co.uk

Bath College fp.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 10:09 Page 1

Ed news oct.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 15:03 Page 1

EDUCATION

EDUCATION NEWS WORLD PREMIERE OF STARDUST On 14 and 15 October Bath charity ‘Voices for Life’ will present the world premiere of Stardust, a new choral work, to be sung by 250 children from across Bath and Wiltshire. Voices for Life’s unique programme has taken local school children on a confidence-boosting journey through the solar system, which will culminate with performances in front of over 1200 people in the Bath Abbey. The charity will also be welcoming its new patron, the Mayor of Bath to the concert. Stardust was commissioned by Voices for Life and written by local composer Jools Scott and librettist Sue Curtis. It is based on a story created by Voices for Life’s co-founder, Tessa Armstrong. The performance will be narrated by Jon Monie of Bath Pantomime fame and directed by Bath Abbey’s assistant director of music and Voices for Life co-founder, Shean Bowers. The children will be accompanied by the world-renowned Bristol Ensemble. voicesforlife.org.uk

ROAD TO WIMBLEDON Millfield Prep School pupil Charlie Ruffell has competed in the Road to Wimbledon Regional Finals. Charlie, from Bridgwater, was selected for the event after successfully qualifying at the South West Regional finals. He battled against three players, who were ranked in the top 10 of the year group above him, playing on the prestigious courts at Wimbledon. Thirteen year old Charlie, who joined Millfield Prep in Year 4, is moving into Year 9 at Millfield where he will continue his tennis alongside his studies. Charlie, who was excited to compete at Wimbledon, says, “Millfield have helped tremendously with the support of Mrs Thomas, Millfield Prep’s Director of Tennis, and allowing me to continue my regional development training at Bath University. Millfield tennis coach, Richard Gabb has been my coach for the first part of this season, and Dan Manlow has supported me through more recent times including Wimbledon.” millfieldschool.com

MR WELLS RETURNS TO WELLS Mr Jody Wells has taken up his new position as Head of the Junior School at Wells Cathedral School. He succeeds Julie Barrow, who has retired after thirty incredible years at the school. Most recently, Jody Wells was Headmaster of Forres Sandle Manor Prep School in Hampshire, where he was previously Deputy Head. He is also an ISI (Independent Schools Inspectorate) Inspector. He was previously Head of Boys’ Games and Head of Boarding at All Hallows School. But he began his career at Wells Cathedral School – as a Houseparent and Class Teacher – and is delighted to be coming back to where it all began. wells.cathedral.school 50 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOBeR 2021

issue 223

P51.qxp_Layout 23 23/09/2021 10:13 Page 1

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 51

P52.qxp_Layout 22 23/09/2021 10:17 Page 1

52 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOBeR 2021

issue 224

P53.qxp_Layout 23 23/09/2021 10:15 Page 1

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 53

workhouse.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 14:37 Page 1

CITY CITY || INTERIORS HISTORY

The Bath Union Workhouse

There is a burial ground in Wells Road, Bath where 3,182 bodies were buried between 1858 and 1899 in unmarked graves. John Payne, whose great grandparents are buried there, explains the history and considers the need for a permanent memorial. Additional material by Aileen Thompson.

areas were used as recreation yards. There were day rooms, dormitories and work rooms, an infirmary, a kitchen and a laundry. Land was purchased south of Frome Road for gardens to grow food. The workhouse was designed for 600, but as early as 1845 contained 758 adults and 374 children. On arrival families were broken up as men, women and children were housed separately. The workhouse was soon enlarged, with invalid wards added and in 1857 the so-called ‘lunatic wards’ for the mentally ill. A separate laundry and bakery were built in later years, the intention to reduce costs by employing pauper labour. Accommodation was also provided for the itinerant poor. Diets were simple and boring, beds were hard and everything was done as cheaply as possible. The most obvious discipline of the workhouse was time: getting up, eating and work all took place at the summons of the workhouse bell, which can still be seen – now silent – at the entrance to St Martin’s Hospital. There were punishments for those who broke workhouse rules, such as by swearing or fighting. There were also rewards such as beer for inmates who took on responsibilities in the infirmary, laundry, kitchen and gardens. Children from poor families ended up in the workhouse because they were Image: Cross Manufacturing Co Ltd

he 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act established a uniform system for the administration of welfare. This resulted in the building of the Bath Union Workhouse between 1836 and 1838. The New Poor Law, introduced in 1834, was designed to reduce the total expenditure on poor relief, especially that given in people’s own homes and communities. Its introduction caused much debate, with some comparing conditions in the new workhouses to slavery and others insisting that when relief was given to poor people it should be in return for work, and that conditions in the workhouse should be no better than conditions of working families outside it. The Bath Union Workhouse was built between 1836 and 1838 on Frome Road at Odd Down. The first chairman of the Bath Union Workhouse, the Rev. Thomas Spencer of Hinton Charterhouse, believed that while the workhouse should act as a deterrent through a strict regime, it would also provide training, enabling inmates to learn a trade to enable them to earn a living outside the workhouse. The workhouse building was built to a standard design with three wings radiating from the central offices of the workhouse, linked to form a hollow hexagon. The open

abandoned by their parents or orphaned, and lessons were provided in the school rooms. School teachers were employed not just to teach the children but to supervise them from morning till night, including chapel on Sunday mornings. The majority of the girls later went into service; for the boys a wider range of apprenticeships were available, often based on the practical skills The Workhouse bell

Image: John Payne

Christmas Day in the Workhouse, c. 1890

Workhouse inmate: William Wingrove 1819–1867 William grew up in Walcot and was a French polisher by trade. He married and had children, but his wife died, probably in childbirth. By the 1860s, William and two daughters were all living at Bath Workhouse. He died in 1867 at the age of 49. In 1871 Martha Wingrove, aged 28 and described as an imbecile, and Catherine (Kate) Wingrove, aged 32, described as a lunatic, were both still living in the Workhouse, though in the 1881 census they are both described as epileptic. Martha died later that year and was interred at the Burial Ground. What became of Kate is a mystery. What did it matter? They were only paupers...

54 TheBATHMagazine

ocToBeR 2021

iSSUe 224

workhouse.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 15:31 Page 2

Image: Cross Manufacturing Co Ltd

An arial view of the Workhouse, 1930s

they had learned in the workhouse. Within a few years of the building of the Bath Workhouse, it became apparent that the majority of inmates were simply not capable of work. In 1857 only 139,130 out of a total workhouse population in England and Wales of 843,430 were able-bodied. The remaining 700,000 were children, the old or the mentally ill. This imbalance meant that as the century moved on, the history of the workhouse overlapped more and more with the history of health and welfare provision. The work of building a chapel for the workhouse began in 1843 and was completed in 1846. All inmates were expected to attend chapel on Sunday morning. Before 1847 the bodies of those who died in the workhouse were returned to the parish where they had lived. Once the chapel was built, burials took place in unmarked graves on the land next to the chapel. A total of 1107 bodies are buried there. In 1855 the Board of Guardians purchased a further field on the other side of Frome Road, adjoining Wells Road. Pauper labour was used to clear stone from the field and these stones were used to build the wall that is still there today. The new burial ground was opened in 1858, and 3182 bodies were buried there between 1858 and 1899 in unmarked graves. The Workhouse Burial Ground is now open space in the care of the Parks Department at Bath and North East Somerset Council. It is still consecrated ground. The main workhouse buildings, including the Hexagon of 1838, have now been converted into housing, while some of the later infirmary buildings are used for NHS offices. The names of the dead are in the list of burials carefully preserved and transcribed in the Bath Record Office in the vaults of the

Bath Guildhall. My great-grandparents Charles and Ann Payne died in Bath Workhouse, and are buried in unmarked graves in the field on Wells Road, Odd Down, Bath, now known as Wellsway. The field was defined by rough grass – unloved and uncared for. Charles had come to Bath from Chewton Mendip to make his fortune. Clearly he failed. In 1937 the workhouse infirmary became St Martin’s Hospital; other parts of the buildings were used to accommodate the elderly and chronically ill. In 1948 the hospital and the infirmary were combined into a single hospital. Older patients later in the 20th century continued to be fearful of St Martin’s Hospital, and especially its geriatric wards, because of the stigma of the hated workhouse. I wrote a number of poems addressing the social and moral issues raised by what I called The Workhouse Dead (“the rotting leather ledgers/… list the money spent, the figures,/ but not the suffering/ of children, elders, the mad, the sick”). These were read on a series of walks between the city centre and the Burial Ground, hosted by myself and walking artist Richard White. From this emerged Richard’s proposal to adopt a ‘slow walking’ approach, honouring our workhouse dead by traversing slowly and carefully the field in which they were buried, as we read their names. Each time we gathered, walkers brought flowers, left pebbles and later flags on sticks fluttering with the names of the dead on them; a ‘poor’ memorial evolved but we were no closer to having a permanent memorial. Cue Bathscape, Bath’s Lottery funded Landscape Partnership project. Working with Bathscape’s Community Projects Officer, Lucy Bartlett, we have been able to persuade

Workhouse inmate: Sarah Papler (or Pepler) 1808–1893 A Gloucestershire girl, Sarah Papler married a farmer at Wotton-underEdge at a time when farming was in decline. In various censuses Sarah was living on the farm or working as a servant in Bath. By 1891 she was an inmate of Bath Workhouse, described as an 81-year-old pauper. She died two years later and was buried at the Workhouse on 23 November 1893. Her life, like so many in Victorian England, was an unavoidable progression through a life of poverty, from her birth to her end in the Workhouse.

the Parks Department to change the mowing pattern to allow wild flowers to flourish. There will be interpretation boards to tell locals and visitors about the history of the Burial Ground. We hope that one day there will be a simple permanent memorial here, designed in consultation with local people. Proceeds of sales of our booklet From Workhouse to Hospital have enabled us to set up a fund for that purpose. My hope is that the field will become a place where youngsters will play, where family gatherings and picnics will take place, as well as being a place of thoughtful remembrance. Laughter as well as tears. n

Copies of From Workhouse to Hospital can be bought for £5 at the Museum of Bath at Work or the Oldfield Park Bookshop in Moorland Road.

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

october 2021

theBATHMagazine 55

Harvey Nichols Oct Bath folio.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 12:27 Page 1

BEAUTY | SPECIAL

beauty NOTEBOOK DR. Dennis Gross Skincare Advanced Retinol + Ferulic Overnight Wrinkle Treatment. £86 Advanced Retinol + Ferulic Overnight Wrinkle Treatment by Dr. Dennis Gross is an overnight treatment powered by Phyto-Retinol Blend™ to visibly firm, reduce the look of wrinkles and restore hydration by supporting the skin’s natural renewal process.

Hourglass Equilibrium Restorative Hydrating Cream, £125 The Equilibrium Restorative Hydrating Cream is a rich hydrating cream formulated with Hourglass’ Cell Balancing Complex to help rebalance, restore, and renew the skin barrier for a healthy-looking complexion. This nourishing cream is also infused with niacinamide to help reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, improve skin texture, and help protect against pollution, environmental, and blue light stressors.

Fenty Beauty Diamond Bomb Palette, £34 Fenty Beauty’s most-wanted highlighter is now sparkling in three reimagined nude shades, Fenty Glow, Fu$$y and Hot Chocolit. The Diamond Bomb Palette features a unique jellypowder formula that’s cool to the touch, melts into skin, and creates an all-glitz-no-grit finish for all skin tones. It also delivers a 3D glittering veil of pure sparkle for face and body.

AUTUMN BEAUTY DROP

Memo Paris Lalibela Hair Perfume, £55 Memo Paris launches a new hair perfume – with an alcohol-free and long-lasting formula, it offers a gentle moisturiser for the hair while delicately scenting with the Lalibela fragrance – perfect for travels all year round

Introducing the products that will transport you into Autumn. Featuring limited edition luxuries and soon-to-be staples, take your pick of the latest beauty to drop at Harvey Nichols Bristol

OUAI Refresh Kit, £28

All products featured are available from the ground floor beauty hall at Harvey Nichols Bristol and online at harveynichols.com

For a total refresh that’ll keep your hair feeling ‘just styled’ between washes, this OUAI Refresh Kit calls on the Detox Shampoo to give a thorough clean and the Super Dry Shampoo to keep you feeling clean for days after.

Coco and Eve Sunny Honey Bronzing Face Drops, £22.90 Get a gradual, natural, glowing tan whilst moisturising and plumping skin with Coco & Eve’s ultra-hydrating Sunny Honey Bronzing Face Drops. Just add 2–3 tanning drops to your daily moisturiser and boost it with self-tan benefits so you can dial-up your Bali bronze drop-by-drop.

Creed Sample Inspiration Set – Women, £35 Cannot decide which perfume to choose? Discover your next signature scent with The House of Creed Sample Inspiration Set which allows you to explore some of the finest fragrances.

Jo Malone London Wood Sage & Sea Salt Body & Hand Wash, £52 A supersized Body & Hand Wash infused with fresh Wood Sage & Sea Salt. Created with meadow foam seed, the formula gently cleanses skin, helping to leave body and hands feeling conditioned and soft.

56 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOBeR 2021

issue 224

Tom Ford. Shade and Illuminate Blush, £65 Tom Ford’s Shade and Illuminate Blush is a luxurious, two-in-one powder cheek colour formulated with rice silk powder and available in six silky-smooth, multidimensional shades duos. Each blush offers complementing semi-matte and highlighting hues, for a light-reflecting, youth-enhancing glow.

Doctor Lucy fp.qxp_Layout 23 23/09/2021 11:33 Page 1

New Business in Bath Dr Lucy Facial Aesthetics @drlucyfacialaesthetics

Dr Lucy has recently opened her clinic in Widcombe, Bath bringing her style of Facial Aesthetic techniques to her home town. Lucy is a Practising dentist and has been for 23 years. Qualifying in 1998 she moved to Bath and has been here ever since. Most dentists are perfectionists and Lucy is no exception. Her eye for detail means she has easily transferred her skills in Cosmetic Dentistry to the world of Facial Aesthetics. She has been Practicing in the Cotswold town of Tetbury for many years, but now, living in Bath, she has decided to bring her Aesthetic techniques closer to home, creating a better work life balance. For those in the know, Widcombe is a buzzing area of Bath, close to the city centre. Dr Lucy’s clinic offers a state of the art clinical environment but is comfortable and welcoming at the same time. It is discretely tucked away behind Widcombe Parade and has client parking. The new clinic offers a range of treatments from Wrinkle Relaxing, to Dermal Fillers, Profhilo to skin care. Lucy is an Obagi Ambassador and prescribes the full range of prescription skin care.

She specialises in anti–ageing treatments but prides herself on making sure her clients don’t look ‘done’. Her motto is ‘good facial aesthetics shouldn’t be noticeable’. Blending facial features that affect a clients confidence is another area she’s passionate about. She also uses her dental knowledge to treat migraines and jaw problems. Considering Cosmetic Treatments can be a difficult conversation to have with yourself. Our lines and wrinkles show how we have lived and laughed. Everyone will have them- there is no escape! But having little tweaks can take years off. Anti- wrinkle injections help ease your facial movements so your expressions are not as powerful. By temporarily easing the movement the wrinkles cannot form. Hyaluronic acid Dermal Fillers can be used to replace the tissues that deplete as we age, (for example bone, muscle, collagen and fat). For instance, fat pad loss in the midface can make you look tired and is often exaggerated in women who exercise. But they can also be used to enhance features (lips) or disguise areas such as jowls or a bump in a nose. Profhilo is great for skin that has started to lose moisture, elasticity and plumpness. It is the purest form of Hyaluronic acid and is injected into the skin to give you a glow. It won’t change the shape, volume or muscle movement of your face so perfect for those looking for a starter level. Bringing all her knowledge and experience of the face and neck means she can deliver the perfect treatment every time. At the clinic, a typical new enquiry starts with a thorough consultation. A medical history is taken as well as a full face assessment. The most important aspect is listening to the client and finding out what they want. Natural is the key word – most people don’t want to look like they’ve had anything done. Dr Lucy can enhance natural features and use subtle tweaks to help turn back the clock. Usually – less is more. If you’d like to book in for a consultation go to:

www.doctorlucy.co.uk and fill in the online booking form. Dr Lucy’s clinic is situated at: 10 Rossiter Rd, Bath, BA2 4JP Tel; 07887514154

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 57

Nuffield October.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 12:08 Page 1

ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE

LOOKING AFTER YOUR HEALTH Your body is amazing, and to keep it running as it should, it’s important to understand the basics of gynaecological health. Here, the Consultant Gynaecologists from Nuffield Health Bristol Hospital breakdown some of the issues you should be aware of to keep your body in good working condition.

Menstrual health Periods will generally last for between 3 to 5 days, and occur every 21 to 35 days. Just over a third of people will develop period problems during their lifetime. Although longer or heavier than usual periods are not a sign of a problem, it needs to be assessed further, and bleeding in between periods, with intercourse or after menopause, could be a sign of cancer and medical advice should be sought promptly. Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) occurs due to the hormonal changes prior to periods and can result in significant emotional changes, which may also require specialist input. Some mild discomfort is common, but if you are experiencing severe pain with your periods (dysmenorrhoea) you may want to speak to your doctor. Hormonal contraception can affect periods in various ways, and if required could also be used as a method of treatment. Most period problems can be evaluated during a consultation with a gynaecologist by reviewing your past medical history, performing an examination, and potentially including an ultrasound scan and biopsies.

requires an ultrasound scan and a CA125 blood test. Womb cancer generally causes postmenopausal bleeding which should always be investigated. Outcomes of womb cancer are relatively good if detected and treated in the early stages. Ovarian and womb cancer can be hereditary, and if you have a strong family history of these types of cancers, as well as bowel or breast cancer, you should contact a specialist to discuss gene testing and prevention surgery. Most cervical cancer occurs between the ages of 30 and 40 years. Not taking part in a screening programme when invited is the biggest risk of developing cervical cancer. Screening is important, even for people who have received the HPV vaccine. Most cervical cancer presents with bleeding in-between periods or after sex. Vulval cancer is relatively uncommon. Any ulcer, lump or bleeding from vulval skin should be promptly assessed. Precancer changes can cause soreness and itching and should also be checked by a specialist.

Menopause Gynaecological cancers Up to two thirds of gynaecological cancers can be prevented by risk reduction, screening and vaccination programme, and it’s important to remember that the outcome of a cancer diagnosis can be improved by earlier detection. Ovarian cancer can be silent, but symptoms such as weight loss, nausea, vomiting, persistent bloating, abdominal distension or difficulty in breathing could all be a sign and should be taken seriously. Initial investigation 58 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOBeR 2021

issue 224

Menopause occurs when the ovaries stop producing eggs, reducing levels of oestrogen hormone. The average age is 51 with a quarter of people experiencing severe symptoms. It occurs naturally or resulting from treatment, e.g. for cancer. Treatment is based on symptoms which can include hot flushes, insomnia, fatigue, joint ache, painful sex, anxiety, and forgetfulness. There has been much publicity about the risks of HRT (oestrogen replacement). HRT can increase the risk of breast cancer if used for 5

years, but this risk is lower than being overweight or excess alcohol intake. HRT has considerable benefits too. Heart disease accounts for more deaths than cancer and starting HRT before age 60 is protective. Oestrogen can reduce the risk of dementia and protects the bones, reducing the risk of fractures due to osteoporosis. Not everybody needs HRT, however, individualised help is available for those who do. At Nuffield Health Bristol Hospital, our team of Consultant Gynaecologists – Dr Jo Bailey, Dr Suvarna Mahavarkar, Miss Naomi Crouch and Mr Amit Patel – work closely together to offer a comprehensive service for our patients. As well as treating general gynaecological conditions, they each have their own specialties. Dr Bailey and Mr Patel both specialise in gynaecological cancers, while Dr Mahavarkar specialises in the treatment of related skin conditions, and Ms Crouch in adolescent gynaecology. If you would like to book an appointment with a Consultant Gynaecologist at Nuffield Health Bristol Hospital, call 0117 911 5339, or visit our website: www.nuffieldhealth.com/hospitals/bristol.

Nuffield Health Bristol Hospital 3 Clifton Hill, Bristol BS8 1BN nuffieldhealth.com/hospitals/bristol

CNP fp October.qxp_Layout 23 23/09/2021 11:32 Page 1

ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE

CNM helped me achieve my dream career in nutrition Kimberly Espinel, CNM Nutritional Therapy Graduate

I now have a successful business and work full-time as a food photographer and recipe developer. I do all this from home, working my own hours and I also get to spend lots of quality time with my son. After working as an adoption and fostering social worker for many years, I took time off after I had my son. When I went back to work, things didn’t feel the same; my job was demanding and my work-life balance wasn’t right. I wanted a job where I could set my own hours and have the flexibility to spend more time with my son. Food and nutrition had always been my passion, so I went to an open day at the College of Naturopathic Medicine (CNM) and decided to do the naturopathic nutrition diploma. I loved that the course was part-time and spread over three years; it offered flexibility that other courses didn’t. CNM has a fantastic reputation and the college is conveniently located in central London.

Studying at CNM completely changed my life. All the topics were incredibly interesting, especially the nutrition modules, and I loved the practical component of the in-clinic training. Doing mock consults was a fantastic experience. All the lecturers are so inspiring and knowledgeable. I also met some lovely people who I’m still in contact with. I started my vegan food blog whilst studying to build an audience and a catalogue of recipes to share with clients when I graduated. Thinking about the marketing and business side early on has been pivotal in my business’ success with my blog gaining a lot of traction from the start. I realised food photography was my strength so I’ve focussed my business around food photography and styling, and having my nutrition qualification has given me an edge and set my blog apart from others. I now work full-time as a food photographer and recipe developer, and I also teach food styling and food photography. I do a lot of sponsored content and influencer work too, promoting products for brands.

Free CNM Lecture Scan the QR code No 1 training provider for Natural Therapies

Visit www.cnmcourses.com or call 01342 777 747

My advice to anyone thinking about studying nutrition at CNM is to go for it as the knowledge you gain is invaluable. Even if you don’t want to practice, you can use it to improve your own health. The course gives you a solid foundation in how the body works, nutrition and healthy living.

Geoff Don

Think about your end goal from the outset – what do you want to achieve and how will your business look? When you know this, you can start brainstorming and put plans in place to make it happen.

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 59

Andrew Swift oct.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 11:38 Page 1

THE | WALK

Looking down on Wellow

On the trail of the Ruralists

Andrew Swift wanders in Wellow, enjoys a view of the Cam Valley and Wellow Church, encounters the Roman Fosse Way and discovers a steam mill, richly decorated tombs and a medieval wall painting.

ellow is one of Somerset’s hidden gems. Less than seven miles from Bath, it lies in a deep valley, approached by winding lanes, and yet it contains a wealth of ancient buildings, as well as one of the county’s most historic churches, a medieval packhorse bridge and a splendid country pub. You could once catch a train to Wellow from Green Park, and, although the rails have long been lifted, the station survives, having been converted to a house by the artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, who used the signal box as a studio. They came to the village as part of a group of artists called the Brotherhood of Ruralists, who sought to re-engage with the English pastoral tradition, and this seven-mile walk explores some of the landscapes that inspired them. It starts, however, in another glorious but much smaller village, Combe Hay, which is signposted from the Odd Down Park & Ride roundabout. After following a narrow lane south for 1.5 miles, turn left into the village and after a third of a mile, as the lane starts to drop downhill, you should be able to park – considerately – beside the high wall on the right (BA2 7EG; ST734599). Walk on down the lane, which bears left and then right before starting to climb. After 300m, turn right down a stony bridleway signposted to Hen & Chicken Court. Just before a bridge over the Cam Brook there is a muddy section. Once across it, however, the going improves as the bridleway starts to climb. Carry on through a gate and after another 225m, when you come to two gates, go through the metal one on the left. As you continue to climb, the way grows steeper and rockier, with water coursing down, but this soon gives way to something gentler, and the views start to open up. Go through a wooden handgate, continue along the edge of a field and, when you come to the corner, bear left to carry on alongside the hedgerow. After 450m go through a handgate and carry straight on 60 THeBATHMagazine

ocTober 2021

issue 224

through another handgate with a footpath waymark (ST748597). Up to your right is Upper Twinhoe, while to your left is a view over the Cam valley. At the end of the field, carry on through two more handgates and bear left. Go through a five-bar gate by a barn at the end of the field, turn right along a lane for 20m and then left along a drive to Middle Twinhoe Barns. After 50m, go through a KG on the right and bear right alongside the hedgerow. In the corner of the field, go through a KG and turn left alongside the hedgerow. After 150m, when the hedge swings left, carry on along a track heading straight up the field. When you come to a metal handgate, go through it, turn left along a lane and almost immediately go through a metal handgate on the left (ST748591). Carry on with the hedge on your left, but after 250m, when the hedge curves left, follow a signpost straight on towards a KG with a view down to Wellow Church. Head steeply downhill, continue down a track through the undergrowth and, after going through a KG, follow a track winding between gates marked private (ST742585). Carry on through a KG and, when you come to two KGs together, go through the one on the left and after 65m turn right into the churchyard. Wellow Church has an unusual dedication – to St Julian the Hospitaller, whose statue is above the porch door. For a village church it is also unusually large and contains some real treasures, including richly decorated tombs in the Hungerford chapel, a medieval wall painting of Christ and the Apostles and a 15th-century rood screen. Head west out of the churchyard and carry on along the pavement past a succession of ancient houses, chief among which is the manor house, dating from 1634 and once the home of the Hungerfords. A little further on you come to the heart of the village, with the Fox & Badger pub looking out over the square where Wellow Fair was once held every October. There was once another pub opposite – the George, which closed in 1925 and became George House.

Andrew Swift oct.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 09:41 Page 2

THE | WALK

The alleyway beside the pub leads past cottages, a former Fullers Earth Works and a steam mill to the old signal box. A little further down is the packhorse bridge over the Wellow Brook. To continue with the walk, however, head west from the Fox & Badger along the main street. Another diversion down Station Road leads to the converted station, still with its platform canopy. Heading west along the main street, you eventually reach the end of the village. Carry on past a bridleway sign on the right (opposite the turning to Stony Littleton Long Barrow), but 100m further on, just past the 20mph signs, turn right at the next bridleway sign and head uphill with a hedgerow on your right (ST733579). Follow the hedgerow along the north side of field, but in the northwest corner go through a metal handgate. Carrying on in the same direction, go through another handgate 50m further on and follow a footpath waymark diagonally across a large field where they may be cattle. On the far side, go through a KG and turn left along a rough lane (ST724582). After 300m, when it forks, bear right. Carry on through the hamlet of White Ox Mead, turn left at a T junction, and after a few metres turn right past Springhill House. Carry on for 700m and at the main road, cross and head up the lane opposite. After 75m, when the tarmac ends, bear right to follow a red waymark past a six-bar gate and bear right along the edge of a field (ST714589). This, although it may not look like it, is the course of the Roman Fosse Way, abandoned around 250 years ago when the turnpike trust opened a more gently graded road up Dunkerton Hill. Carry on down through the remnants of a high-banked lane, and, after going through three gates, turn left along the pavement. Home Farm, on the left, was once a beerhouse called the Wellow Inn, as it lay in the parish of Wellow. It closed in 1907. Immediately after crossing a bridge over the Cam Brook, cross the road and go down a steep and narrow flight of steps to follow a footpath along the edge of the field, with the brook out of sight

THE

KI TC HEN PAR TNER S DESIGN STUDIO

behind a bank of vegetation on your right. After 800m, when the hedge bears left, carry straight on across a gated footbridge, which unfortunately leads to a muddy corner frequented by cows (ST723592). Carry on along the edge of the field, cross another gated footbridge and after another 700m, go through a KG onto a lane. Go through the KG opposite and continue alongside the brook, but after 250m follow the track as it heads straight on uphill. After entering woods, you come to a handgate leading onto a lane, a right turn along which leads back to the starting point. n

Fact file

n Distance: 7 miles

n Level of challenge: A few very muddy sections and one steep flight of steps; cattle may also be encountered; otherwise well waymarked with no stiles n Refreshment stops: Fox & Badger, Wellow (thefoxandbadger.com: 01225 832293). Lunches served 12–2pm Thursday to Saturday; 12–3pm Sunday (closed lunchtimes Monday to Wednesday) n Map: OS Explorer 142

More on the details of this and many more walks can be found in Andrew Swift’s Country Walks from Bath, published by Akeman Press; akemanpress.com.

www.thekitchenpartners.co.uk 102 Whiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2QY 01179 466433

Founders and Lead Designers - Fiona & Clinton

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

october 2021

theBATHMagazine 61

walls and floors.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 11:31 Page 1

CITY | INTERIORS

Timorous Beasties’ Totem Damask Wallpaper design has no pattern match and the design changes throughout the 10 metre roll. It can be hung wherever you decide to cut your required drop; timorousbeasties.com 68 TheBATHMagazine

SePTeMBeR 2021

iSSUe 223

walls and floors.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 11:31 Page 2

CITY | INTERIORS

Floors and walls

It’s time for an interior upgrade and to do this it’s wise to strip away the decorative layers and go back to basics – that means assessing the style impact of walls and floors, says Emma Clegg

ne of the problems about living in a flat or house is that once it’s decorated and furnished to your taste, it’s easy to develop a careless appreciation of a thing done well. Any walls that have been knocked down, any spaces reshaped, the addition of Velux windows and sliding doors, log burners and clever lighting systems along with colour schemes, wallpaper choices and furnishing styles were welladmired after their unveiling. But their novelty has receded, the freshness has gone and a style blindness on the part of all who live there has ensued. Pictures become invisible through familiarity, new bookshelves pop up to house new possessions, colour matching becomes dissonant through the introduction of additional accessories. More seriously, things are looking a bit shabby: the vinyl flooring has developed raised bumps and cracks where the sunshine falls, the carpet has lost its bouncy pile and its evenness of colour, tiles are cracked in the bathroom and the grout is grubby. A wise approach if your room needs a style refresh is to go back to basics, and that means stripping back and rethinking your walls and floors. Now you might think that walls and floors form just the basic architectural structure of a room and it’s what you put within these planes that matter. But you’d be wrong, because there are multiple design options and material choices available and every element contributes to the whole. Making decisions about these will have an essential role in creating a meaningful three-dimensional space.

Cook's Blue, St Giles Blue, Stiﬀkey Blue and Lulworth Blue from Farrow & Ball, painted to give extra presence to each bed head; farrow-ball.com

❝

Stone floors have that close-to-the-elements quality, formed beneath the earth under intense heat and pressure

❝

Going back to basics is totally fashionable nowadays. Take earthen floors. This was the very first kind of floor, common in most houses until the mid-14th century in Europe. But they are no longer archived in the past and have had a resurgence in recent years with the green movement where an earthen floor is sealed with linseed oil to protect it. Stone floors have that same close-to-the-elements quality, formed

Approaches to walls • A dado or picture rail makes a good visual divider on a wall – position the line according the room’s features. • Introduce a gallery wall for personality and colour with a framed collection of art or photographs. • Paint two-thirds of the wall with a colour and leave the top third white to help visually raise the ceiling height. • Grouping wall-mounted artwork in a three is a impactful way to make a big statement. Add a romantic, antique feel to your room by using a highimpact wallpaper, perhaps as a feature wall. A gallery wall and a Seagrass Herringbone natural patterned carpet; avonvalecarpets.co.uk

walls and floors.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 11:31 Page 3

CITY | INTERIORS

Belgian Bluestone Floor by Natural Stone Consulting; naturalstoneconsulting.co.uk

Gelato Sage Gloss Ceramic tile by Mandarin Stone; mandarinstone.com

beneath the earth under intense heat and pressure, creating natural stone such as marble, granite, limestone, slate and travertine. From pyramids to castles and from kitchens to garden paving stones, stone has never lost its lure. Flagstones, brushed limestone tiles, slate tiles and exposed stonework and stone in unusual shades such as pink and green are all trending now. Tiles are another versatile option, first used around 4000 BC and then tiled floors, mosaics and sophisticated underfloor heating were the luxurious go-to for the Romans. Decorative tiles resurged in the 12th century to create patterns in churches, monasteries and palaces and have evolved constantly over the years. Recent tiling favourites have seen terracotta tiles, matte tiles, Moroccan style designs, terrazzo and Art Deco in the mix. Hardwood floors – using wood from a broadleaved tree – appeared in 1600 AD but they tended to be simple and workaday and it took until the Baroque era before they became elegant and highly finished. In the Industrial Revolution floors divided rich and poor, with the wealthy having floors of sanded hardwood and solid flagstones, and the poor having cheap wooden floorboards liable to damp. Wooden floors are now a more egalitarian favourite, practical, natural and sustainable, and if they are not part of the structure of the house there are plenty of engineered alternatives in finishes from oiled and waxed to lacquered and distressed. Warm floor coverings have always been an essential household accessory, with animal hides and furs providing a warm spot in the most primitive and unheated of households. Carpets themselves, floor coverings made from thick woven fabrics, go back to 5000 BC, although they were primarily used as wall or table coverings before

Stone flooring: the advantages by Natural Stone Consulting • Natural stone can be used almost anywhere, including floors, paving, driveways, skirting, cladding and staircases. • The finish applied to natural stone has a critical effect on how the material looks and can change how light or dark it is. • The installation of stone in a property will help add value and will ensure it remains at a high standard for many years. • A stone tile will warm up quickly and stay warm for longer than most flooring materials, so is efficient with underfloor heating. • Few materials have the longevity of natural stone and it’s considered a product with the best possible lifecycle. naturalstoneconsulting.co.uk

64 TheBATHMagazine

OcTOBeR 2021

iSSUe 224

Karndean Art Select Prairie Oak Parquet flooring is easy to maintain and is warm underfoot; karndean.com; carpetsandflooringbath.co.uk

Flooring decisions • For kitchen flooring, aim for durability and ease of cleaning. Good choices are linoleum, ceramic tile and wood. • Bathrooms have more moisture and linoleum, ceramic tile, limestone, marble and granite are all good flooring choices. • Oak, extremely hard-wearing and with an attractive grain, is often the first choice for wooden flooring, while maple, birch, and pine are also widely used.

the popularity of the Persian rug in the early 17th century. These were so valuable that in the Middle East carpets were common currency for payment of dowries, to buy livestock or to pay off taxes. Nowadays wool, sisal and jute natural fibres, and warm, earthy tones remain favourites as well as bold colours and jewel tones and geometric patterns for the more adventurous. When it comes to walls, a coat of emulsion in any colour shade is an easy transformative makeover. Painting our environment is an important psychological statement of ownership – early artists used the natural materials available to them, such as calcite, charcoal, hematite, and manganese oxide, to define and decorate their environment and tell visual stories. Later paints were handmade from ground-up mineral-based pigments such as charcoal, blood, sap, berry juice; and ochre, rust and iron hydroxides and mixed with bases of water, saliva, urine, or animal fats to create paint. The first pre-mixed wall paints by Sherwin-Williams in 1867 revolutionised the options and since the 1940s technological advances have resulted in synthetic pigments and chemical processes enabling the easier preparation of paint in myriad colours. Recent years have seen strong trends for grounding natural colours driven by the eco movement and the natural environment and more recently warm and cossetting colours to give emotional connections with comfort, security and protection in pandemic times. Wallpapers came later, in the 16th century, initially used to decorate the insides of cupboards and smaller rooms in merchants’ houses. Improvements in block-printing processes meant that by the middle of the 18th century patterns could be printed in many colours and in 1839 the first wallpaper-printing machine was patented. At the beginning of the 20th century wallpaper was ubiquitous in poor and wealthy homes alike. In the 1970s, linked to the oil crisis and competition from paint companies, wallpaper took more of a back seat, but recent decades have seen a big upturn in its popularity with digital printing techniques and modern designers such as Tracey Kendall and Timorous Beasties introducing new visions of modern wallcoverings that continue to dazzle and inspire. n

BCF fp October.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 11:32 Page 1

Image shows Asiatic Rugs

P66.qxp_Layout 22 24/09/2021 12:01 Page 1

Discover our newsletter Stay well informed. Stay well entertained. Our weekly newsletter, is specially curated mini-guide to help you get the best of your time in Bath. Bulletins of news, commentary and culture, as well as lifestyle ideas, things to do, great reads and so much more delivered direct and free to your inbox...

It’s like a mini Bath Magazine!

Subscribe for free at:

www.thebathmagazine.co.uk 66 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOBeR 2021

issue 224

P67.qxp_Layout 23 24/09/2021 09:17 Page 1

CLAVA DINE UMAGE, DENMARK

LIGHTING SPECIALIST 8 BATH STREET, FROME. TEL: 01373473555 WWW.FIATLUX.CO.UK

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 67

BATH INTERIORS OCT 21.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 12:56 Page 1

HOMES & INTERIORS | A/W 2021 GUIDE

Rooms for improvement

Over the last 18 months we have spent a little more time at home, appreciating the good things but also dreaming of making improvements. Our A/W 21 guide features all the best trades and services to help spruce up your home. Whether it’s a small decorating touch or a major project that you’ve been putting off, this guide offers a great range of expert services to make all those ambitions become reality.

BONITI Dunsdon Barn, West Littleton, Wiltshire SN14 8JA Tel: 01225 892200 Web: boniti.com Run by Giles and Simon Lunt, Boniti is a high-quality interiors (and exteriors) business. The showroom is a destination for all types of natural stone, porcelain and timber flooring as well as decorative tiles, stoneware, Kadai firebowls, and the highly desirable Everhot range cookers and stoves. For large and small projects, the Boniti team are masters of their profession and it shows in every detail. The showroom is easily reached from J18 of the M4.

WOODHOUSE & LAW

AVONVALE CARPETS

4 George’s Place, Bathwick Hill, Bath BA2 4EN Tel: 01225 428072 Web: woodhouseandlaw.co.uk

37 Kingsmead Street, Bath BA1 2AA Tel: 01225 427057 Web: avonvalecarpets.co.uk

Woodhouse and Law is a well-established full service interior and garden design partnership. From the showroom and studio on Bathwick Hill, the company offers every component necessary in the delivery of a project from concept to completion, ensuring the highest quality throughout. The unique service combines the expertise of inhouse interior and garden designers with that of a highly skilled team of local craftsmen and technicians. So, whether your project is residential or commercial, the team at W&L can help with a wide range of services to transform your space. From making up soft furnishings to a full design service and project co-ordination, everything is delivered with exceptional attention to detail. To arrange an initial consultation, get in touch or pop in to meet the team.

68 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOBeR 2021

issue 224

Your choice of flooring is vital in transforming any room and the range of options can sometimes overwhelm. Fortunately, Avonvale Carpets is on hand to assist. It has served homeowners and businesses throughout the city of Bath and Wiltshire for almost 50 years, providing an excellent choice of flooring, in-depth expertise and perfect fitting. An independent, secondgeneration family-run business, Avonvale Carpets has its own professionallytrained fitters and deals directly with major manufacturers, offering customers a great selection of quality flooring solutions that’s second to none – laminate, LVT, natural, stain resistant, vinyl, wood, wool and tailor-made options too. You’ll be amazed at the variety on offer in the shop, located just off Kingsmead Square. Pop in and see.

BATH INTERIORS OCT 21.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 12:56 Page 2

HOMES & INTERIORS | A/W 2021 GUIDE

I LOVE COLOURS Web: ilovecolours.co.uk; Tel: 07484268727; Email: alexandra@ilovecolours.co.uk I Love Colours Studio is a small, creative and enthusiastic interior design studio based in Bath, whose projects have acquired multiple design awards. The team aim to create exceptional designs tailored to the client’s personality, filled with colour, texture and furnishings that add emotion to each interior, to outline something that is perhaps personal or very unique. What they love most, is to create beautiful spaces for their clients and I Love Colours believe in the power of good design to transform an environment. Services include comprehensive interior design, from concept and space planning through CAD drawings and elevations to colour schemes and visuals.

FIAT LUX 8 Bath Street, Frome BA11 1DH Tel: 01373 473555 Web: fiatlux.co.uk Let there be light... Fiat Lux opened its Frome showroom in 2003, and since then it has been the go-to place to see a huge range of superb lighting, from traditional fittings and shades to the most up-to-date trends in contemporary lighting designs. For interior lighting projects there are fixtures and fittings, bulbs, coloured cords and cables in every possible combination, as well as a full display of exterior lighting ideas. Fiat Lux works with leading manufacturers and is an established favourite with property developers, architects, interior designers and all lighting aficionados, professional and domestic. Whatever your style, mood or interior desire, then a trip to Fiat Lux will really light up your ideas.

GARDEN AFFAIRS Trowbridge Garden Centre, 288 Frome Road, Trowbridge BA14 ODT Tel: 01225 774566 Web: gardenaffairs.co.uk Create space for home working, hobbies, a growing family or even a new business venture with a cost-effective, versatile, fullyinsulated garden room. Garden Affairs offer a huge range of high quality, sustainable garden buildings and will help you get the design, the installation, the quality and the price spot on. Visit their extensive display centre at Trowbridge Garden Centre in Wiltshire to see garden offices, art and craft studios, teenage dens, granny annexes as well as a range of ‘posh sheds’ and summerhouses.

WEAVER & STEELE Web: weaverandsteele.co.uk Email: info@weaverandsteele.co.uk Based above Bath, in their Lansdown workshop, Weaver & Steele are a small but ever-growing British workshop, who take pride in designing and creating all their pieces by hand. Taking inspiration from the timeless design of the Mid Century style and adding their own contemporary twist, each piece is truly a labour of love. Their growing collections range from the popular 'LULU Lamps', where their own bespoke frames are hand wrapped in 100% British cotton, to the unique seamless design of the 'Block Desk', bringing a colourful elegance to any home or office. Always happy to help, Weaver & Steele would love to hear from you to discuss your every idea.

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 69

BATH INTERIORS OCT 21.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 12:56 Page 3

HOMES & INTERIORS | A/W 2021 GUIDE

BEN ARGENT KITCHENS Dunsdon Barn, West Littleton, Wiltshire SN14 8JA Tel: 01225 892270 Web: benargentkitchens.co.uk Award winning creators of bespoke contemporary kitchens that successfully combine functional design with elegant simplicity. Ben has a background as a designer/maker and has extensive experience in the specialist furniture industry. He launched the company in 2007 with a clear understanding of the subtleties and technicalities required to achieve sophisticated and highly individual contemporary kitchens. Their beautiful showroom is conveniently located near M4 J18 with plenty of free parking. Please contact them to arrange a viewing.

THE BATH FRAMER

NEWMAN’S JOINERY

14–15 Walcot Buildings, London Road, Bath BA1 6AD Tel: 01225 920210 Web: thebathpictureframer.co.uk

3 Broadway Court, Miles Street, Bath BA2 4HX Tel: 01225 318378, Web: newmansjoinery.co.uk

The Bath Framer, owned by Kelly, is a friendly boutique picture framers that has a beautifully quirky front of house and an amazing naturally lit workshop. Both are a joy to work in and to visit for customers wanting to see how frames are created. Since opening, the business has gone from strength to strength, building a client list of local residents and businesses based in Bath, Bristol and beyond. A bespoke framing service, tailored to suit all individuals’ needs runs alongside a gorgeous selection of cards, gift wrap and stationery.

In April 2015, Roland Newman took over the thriving Hulin & Hudson joinery firm following the retirement of Mike Hulin. Based in Widcombe, the joinery shop was a wellestablished local business providing high-quality joinery for houses in Bath and the surrounding areas. Chris, the foreman, worked with Mike for almost 20 years and continues to run the workshop, so the wealth of experience and local knowledge has been retained. The company deals with everything from timber windows, staircases, doors and frames to alcove cupboards, panelling, timber conservatories and shop façades and they have a specialist knowledge in listed buildings. Contact Newmans for a free, no-obligation initial visit to discuss your requirements.

HOMEFRONT INTERIORS 10 Margaret’s Buildings, Bath BA1 2LP Tel: 01225 571711 Web: homefrontinteriors.co.uk The eclectic Homefront Interiors has an ever-changing selection of homewares, gifts and cards. This little independent store may be small, but it has a wide range and a regularly updated stock of new, contemporary homewares and follows a simple ethos of sustainability. This could mean recycled materials, Fairtrade origins or small-scale production items all on display in-store and online. It is a carefully curated and ever-growing selection of handmade pieces from local artists, including textiles, ceramics, jewellery, art prints and cards, that makes Homefront such a great destination. Ideal for gifts and unique finds for your own home.

70 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOBeR 2021

issue 224

BATH INTERIORS OCT 21.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 12:57 Page 4

HOMES & INTERIORS | A/W 2021 GUIDE

ETONS OF BATH Tel: 01225 639002 Web: etonsofbath.com Etons of Bath is a specialist interior design and architecture practice focused on refurbishing and renovating period homes. Their team of 14 interior designers and project managers can help you plan, design and deliver classically inspired interiors that add value, turn heads and improve the use of space. From their studio in Walcot Street, the team covers projects of all shapes and sizes from large townhouses and country estates to luxury apartments. They combine specialist knowledge, creative flair and project management skills to deliver luxury and complex projects on time and budget.

BATH RECLAMATION Tel: 07983 556757 Web: bathreclamation.co.uk It was a sad day when Walcot Reclamation and Walcot Architectural Salvage had to move out of Bath, but the good news is that former manager and director, Cary Morgan, is now the owner of Bath Reclamation, based just outside Bath in Newton St Loe. Bath Reclamation stock and source all types of reclaimed materials, with a special focus on building materials such as Bath stone ashlar, paving, flooring, roofing and bricks. All other types of salvaged materials and salvaged items – from windows to sleepers, curbs and resawn pine – are kept in stock when available. A visit to its helpful, new website is a must.

JOEL BUGG FURNITURE & SPACES Tel: 01225 583520 / 07779 236242 Web: joelbugg.co.uk Joel Bugg Furniture & Spaces designs and creates elegant, bespoke fitted furniture and interiors, which are architecturally thought through to seamlessly fit and suit your property. Joel and his team offer a fully managed service from initial space planning and concept designs, using teams of skilled cabinet makers in their manufacture through to final installation. They will also recommend, source and provide lighting, flooring and other finishing touches as required. Their expertise spans all interiors from kitchens and bathrooms to libraries and boot rooms, and as well as working directly with clients they work collaboratively with architects and interior designers to deliver a truly tailored solution.

CATRIONA ARCHER Tel: 07823 884945 Web: catrionaarcher.com Catriona Archer believes that interior design should be accessible to all, which is why providing inspiring and practical working solutions is at the heart of what she does. Catriona starts by making the most of your existing items, storage and space. This is a wonderfully quick and inexpensive way to refresh and update your interior before discussing and sourcing any further additions you may require. So, if you are looking for a complete design and styling experience from start to finish, or simply an introductory half/full day consultation to spring-board or fine-tune your existing ideas, then contact Catriona to discuss what works best for you.

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 71

BATH INTERIORS OCT 21.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 12:57 Page 5

HOMES & INTERIORS | A/W 2021 GUIDE

ASPECT WINDOW STYLING 1 Saracen Street, Bath BA1 5BR Tel: 01225 469559 Web: aspectwindowstyling.co.uk Aspect Window Styling is a small local business that specialises in high-end made-to-measure window furnishings. These include blinds, powered blinds, shutters, curtains and awnings. Based in the centre of Bath, the team provides a full design, measuring and fitting service for both small and large design projects across the South West. The showroom is full of the latest products and its highly experienced staff are on hand to provide expert advice both for design and technical queries. Aspect Window Styling understands every window is unique, and aims to provide its customers with specialised solutions to bring out the best in their home

ANNA DESIGN BESPOKE FABRIC COMMISSIONS Tel: 01373 473122 / 07779 951691 Web: anna-design.uk Anna Fraenkel has been fulfilling textile commissions since she was 17 and for the last decade has been working with national interior design company Jayne Clayton. She specialises in textiles for the home and events. Whether you’re looking to transform a village hall into a beautiful wedding venue, want something really unusual, or simply need some curtains, blinds or cushions for your home, Anna will visit, advise and bring your ideas to life.

MANDARIN STONE 15–16 Broad Street, Bath BA1 5LJ Tel: 01225 460033 Web: mandarinstone.com Renowned for its comprehensive natural stone collection, Mandarin Stone has gained quite a reputation for its on-trend and beautifully designed porcelain. Ranging from tiles that cleverly mimic materials such as wood, concrete and marble to striking glazed and patterned tiles, the collection has endless surface design possibilities. Established for over 25 years and with 10 inspirational UK showrooms, it offers dependable specialist knowledge as well as technical expertise. Almost the entire natural stone and porcelain collection is held in stock in the UK, so lead times are short.

BATH KITCHEN COMPANY 7–9 North Parade Buildings, Bath BA1 1NS Tel: 01225 312003 Web: bathkitchencompany.co.uk Established in 1990, Bath Kitchen Company is an award-winning, well-regarded family business based in Bath. With vast experience, the company takes pride in its close attention to detail and its understanding of what each client requires. Whatever an individual client’s tastes, the team will find a bespoke kitchen that strikes a perfect balance between aesthetic and practical requirements. Consequently every kitchen is unique, beautifully designed and perfectly functional. Handmade using premium materials and to the highest standards, a beautiful kitchen can be carefully crafted to make the most of available space, existing features and the latest technology. Whether designing for Bath’s oldest private homes or cutting-edge city apartments, the principle is the same – Bath Kitchen Company will create a place that enhances your lifestyle.

72 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOBeR 2021

issue 224

BATH INTERIORS OCT 21.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 15:31 Page 6

HOMES & INTERIORS | A/W 2021 GUIDE

TR HAYES 15–18 London Street, Walcot, Bath BA1 5BX Tel: 01225 465757 Web: trhayes.co.uk TR Hayes has been selling furniture in Bath for over 100 years and has a reputation for good quality and good service. The large store features many well-respected brands, with an amazing array of furniture of all types on display – sofas and chairs, dining and living room furniture, beds and mattresses (including Hypnos, Vispring and Tempur). Styles range from classic to contemporary, with ranges to suit all budgets. There are also highly respected carpet and curtain departments. Carpets and wooden flooring can be fitted, made-to-measure curtains and blinds provided, and advice on poles and accessories is available. With friendly and knowledgeable staff to help guide you, and excellent aftersales care, you can rely on TR Hayes.

LOLA SWIFT INTERIORS Tel: 07971 106546; Email: lola@lolaswift.co.uk Web: lolaswift.co.uk Interior designer and colour consultant based in Bath, Lola Swift offers a creative and comprehensive design service, seamlessly combining style with practicality whilst integrating personality, colour and texture in your home or workspace. Whether you have moved house, are looking to restyle a room or office space, let Lola remove the stress by creating a beautiful design scheme that reflects your style and budget. Services include residential and commercial spaces, from concept and space planning to room styling and implementation.

ARCHITECT YOUR HOME Tel: 0800 849 8505 Web: architect-yourhome.com Architect Your Home’s service kicks off with an initial design consultation – this is where your project starts. The consultation will include an in-depth discussion to fully establish your requirements and aspirations. You will also be provided with sketch drawings of a properly considered and collaborative design proposal. The practical implications of your design will be explained in detail and you will be equipped with the necessary tools so that you can move your project forward confidently to the next stage. You will also receive advice on issues with planning permission, listed building consents and structures. At the end of the session you will have an agreed proposal and recommendations on the next steps and how to move the project forward.

LUX : PLY Online shop: luxply.co.uk Reclaimed, recaptured, remarkable; no piece of Lux:ply furniture is the same. Lux:ply creates beautiful, design-led furniture from offcuts and found materials, meaning you get a one-off piece of furniture in the knowledge it’s not only thoughtful in design but thoughtful for the planet too. From their studio and workshop in Widcombe they make limited edition pieces as well as a range of ready-to-go tables, storage, seating and more. The sustainable approach and bold, simple styling sets Lux:ply apart from the crowd and offers you a fresh approach to furnishing your home or office. Check out the collection online or visit in person to get your hands on the materials and discuss a bespoke project. Studio and showroom by appointment. Tel: 01225 800 680 or email: bath@luxply.co.uk

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 73

BATH INTERIORS OCT 21.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 12:57 Page 7

HOMES & INTERIORS | A/W 2021 GUIDE

BATH CARPETS AND FLOORING 4 Kingsmead Street, Bath BA1 2AA Tel: 01225 471888 Web: carpetsandflooringbath.co.uk Supplying and fitting flooring throughout the South West since 2004. Bath Carpets and Flooring (BCF) offers a wide selection of carpets, all made from a variety of different materials including wool, polypropylene, nylon and sisals. With the combined experience of more than 90 years, the team’s extensive knowledge and expertise puts you at ease as they match your needs with the perfect flooring solution. BCF pride themselves on only giving impartial advice and hassle-free measuring and estimating, so there will never be any sales pressure or confusion. As the city’s largest Karndean flooring specialist, BCF’s luxury vinyl tile showroom will give you the freedom to create impressive floors, where the only limit is imagination. With showrooms over two floors offering an even greater selection of homely carpets, vinyl’s, LVT’s and modern rugs. Commercial flooring from all leading manufacturers is available through Bath Contract Flooring Ltd. So if it’s flooring for your home or your business BCF have got it covered.

HEIDI REIKI BALANCING ENERGY AND FENG SHUI Tel: 07776 255875 Web: heidireiki.com What people have said.: “We really appreciate the work Heidi did for us; energy clearing the space after we had moved into our new clinic in London. Heidi is lovely, and has a very professional and healing nature. We had been recommended by a friend and are so glad we did. Heidi gave us reiki sessions individually with specific advice for each of us to feel as good as possible. Our clinic space feels so clear and peaceful now thanks to Heidi’s extensive and thorough work on the area! Heidi also gives you a thorough report explaining everything she did and what she found, which she also talks through with you, giving you tips to enhance the energy in the area. It honestly all made such a difference and our clinic has been thriving ever since! Thanks again for all your work Heidi and we look forward to our next session in the future. Highly recommend to everyone.” Chiropractic Alchemy, London. “Heidi came and transformed my home and me. Through her amazing ability of using Feng Shui and reiki. My home now feels lighter, brighter and homelier. I now enjoy putting the key in my door at the end of day. Heidi’s aftercare was a real surprise and a gave me lots of reassurance. Thank you” Home owner - Bath A peaceful place to live and work: Major life changes, such as a new job, a new relationship, a new home, or an illness are all times when you and your home could benefit from energy clearing. Does something feel 'out of kilter' or not ‘quite right’ in your living space? Sometimes energy flows need to be restored in places where there has been emotional upset, also other environmental factors can disrupt the flow of energy to a space. Moving through grief and other obstacles, with healing, can bring a sense of wellbeing to you and your home – Heidi’s process can help support to resolve these challenges and bring calm to you and your surroundings. And it’s not just at these times either; for the general health of your home, a yearly process of energy clearing can be beneficial. In addition to Feng Shui, Heidi will offer Reiki to those living/working there, to help achieve a peaceful, relaxing, calm feeling for you and the space itself. If your home or work place would benefit from some balancing, contact Heidi for an informal chat and more information. Remote sessions are also available.

MARDAN REMOVALS AND STORAGE Tel: 01225 313233 / 07899 847857 Web:mardanremovals.co.uk Mardan work with both home and business owners directly and all work is of the highest standard, reliability being paramount. The team are highly experienced in moving fine arts and antiques giving you the confidence that your most prized possessions will be moved safely and carefully. All your effects will be packed to European standards. Mardan offer a full packing service and all packing materials are free of charge with every move. The company also provides secure storage hire in Bath with around-the-clock access and CCTV security and with flexible rental periods and storage size at competitive rates. Whatever your reason for needing storage, if you’re looking to store all your household goods or just a couple of items, look no further. Mardan Removals can take the stress away and arrange it all for you in Bath.

74 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOBeR 2021

issue 224

BATH INTERIORS OCT 21.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 12:58 Page 8

HOMES & INTERIORS | A/W 2021 GUIDE

KELLY MARIE KITCHEN INTERIORS 8 Pulteney Terrace, Bath BA2 4HJ Tel: 01225 481881 (Mobile: 07796 554466) Web: kellymariekitchens.com Kelly Marie has more than 15 years experience in the kitchen design industry. She has had the pleasure of working on many luxury kitchen projects in the Bath area and now owns her own unique and creative business based on a constant list of word-of-mouth recommendations. Her technical designs with intrinsic creativity allow spaces that are functional yet beautiful. With a vast portfolio of luxury German kitchen projects, Kelly works with each client’s budget, providing personalised attention throughout the design process. Kelly believes that it is all about the little details and her approach combines purposeful variations of colour, textures and finishes. The careful selection of these elements endow the home with a sense of harmony, while reflecting the individual style of the client.

COOPERS STORES 13–15 Walcot Street, Bath BA1 5BN Tel: 01225 311811 Web: coopers-stores.com Coopers Home Appliances is a highly acclaimed and awardwinning kitchen appliance retailer with over 70 years of continuous trading and for many years running, a popular entry in our ‘Best of Bath’ list. Its large showroom in the centre of Bath has recently undergone an exciting transformation and displays an extensive array of range cookers, refrigeration, laundry, dishwashing, built-in appliances, small appliances, and much more. Coopers has created a space that gives customers the opportunity to experience live appliances before they buy them. The store holds regular demonstrations and events, and the expert team is always on hand to help you choose the right product. Competitively priced and offering flexible delivery installation service, this is independent retailing at its best – value-driven with superb customer service – a tonic to the spiritless online experience.

KINDLE STOVES Glenavon Farm, 331 Bath Road, Saltford BS31 3TJ Tel: 01225 874422 Web: kindlestoves.co.uk At the heart of your home should be the perfect stove. Kindle Stoves is a local specialist in clean burning, Eco Design Ready stoves approved for burning wood in Bath, with a wood-burner to suit every home and every style. The team stock the super-efficient Woodwarm, Contura and Rais models as well as many more, offering a full installation service – from fireplace alterations, to slate hearths and stone fireplaces. The lovely showroom, situated just outside Keynsham, has one of the largest displays of wood-burners in the South West and is open six days a week. Pop in for advice and brochures or to book a home survey. Seasoned logs and the Big Green Egg outdoor cooker are also available.

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 75

BATH INTERIORS OCT 21.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 13:46 Page 9

HOMES & INTERIORS | A/W 2021 GUIDE

SUMMIT CHAIRS HOME OFFICE CHAIRS Web: summitathome.co.uk The Chair Your Back Has Been Waiting For. With the rise in flexible working, Summit Chairs - based in Trowbridge - has launched its ergonomic home office chair range online. Handmade in the UK & delivered direct to your door, the collection offers a choice of ergonomic British made, bespoke office chairs with a host of wellbeing features. Specially designed with your wellbeing in mind, features include Summit’s Body Balance Mechanism which enables you to constantly adjust your position as you work. Also the company’s patented Twin Air Cell technology allows you to inflate & deflate air in the seat pad to maximise your support, height adjustable Inflatable Lumbar support for your back, Memory Foam options for additional comfort, as well as a host of adjustable settings for arms, height, back tilt & headrests.

ORIENTAL RUGS OF BATH Bookbarn International, Hallatrow Business Park, Bristol BS39 6EX Tel: 01761 451764 Web: orientalrugsofbath.com Situated in the rolling countryside between Bristol and Bath, Oriental Rugs of Bath is home to a wonderful collection of handcrafted carpets, rugs, runners and kilims from the Middle and Far East, where these crafts have sustained their peoples for centuries. Unique furnishings such as Turkish kilim upholstered sofas and silk suzani cushions pair perfectly for any interior design project. Personalised on approval services are available and expert advice is provided for bespoke orders and specialist cleaning and repair enquiries. Open 7 days a week with free nationwide delivery, visit the website to buy online and feel inspired.

HOUSE OF RADIATORS 22 Wellsway, Bear Flat, Bath BA2 2AA Tel: 01225 424199 Web: houseofradiators.co.uk House of Radiators sells traditional and designer radiators that can be off-the-shelf sizes/finishes or bespoke sizes and colours. This popular, family-run business opened its Bear Flat showroom in 2011 and not only sells to Bath areas but throughout the UK and overseas. Following a recent re-fit, there are over 100 radiators on display and due to increasing popularity the traditional cast iron and column radiator range has expanded. With over 45 years experience in the heating and radiator industry they offer a friendly and high level of customer service. This is key in helping customers choose the right radiator for their home that will not only look amazing but will heat their room and do its job. Because the team work with 20 of the leading manufacturers and distributors in the radiator industry, there’s always something to suit all budgets and styles. Locally the company offers a free, at-home consultation where they’ll measure up and work out the correct heat requirements and size up radiators accordingly.

The Bath Magazine Homes, Interiors & Gardens Guide can also be found on our website: thebathmag.co.uk

76 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOBeR 2021

issue 224

P77.qxp_Layout 23 23/09/2021 16:40 Page 1

Bath

Reclamation

Originally of Walcot Reclamation and then former Co-Director of Walcot Architectural Salvage Ltd, Cary Morgan has over 30 years experience in the Reclamation and Salvage business. Based just outside of Bath in Newton St Loe, Bath Reclamation stocks and sources all types of Reclaimed materials, focusing in particular on Traditional Building Materials.

Traditional Building Material

Exterior Features

Traditional Timber and Flooring

Interior Features

Mirrors

Reclaimed Roofing

Traditional Stone Flooring

Miscellaneous

Traditional Building Material

www.bathreclamation.co.uk Home Farm Yard, Newton St Loe, Bath, BA2 9DA 07983 556 757 |

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

info@bathreclamation.co.uk

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 77

Gardening - oct.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 11:36 Page 1

Poisonous but beautiful blue-hooded aconite or monkshood (Aconitum napellus) made headlines in 2009 after a woman laced her ex-lover’s curry with poison derived from the plant

One man’s poison

While the RHS lists well over 100 plants that can cause us potential harm, serious poisoning is uncommon in the UK and many powerful plant substances are used in homeopathic medicine. The difference is in the dose, says Elly West

78 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOber 2021

iSSUe 224

❝

According to Christian mythology, the poison hemlock plant became poisonous while growing at the site of Jesus’ crucifixion

❝

hen we sit in the garden listening to the birds and enjoying the colours and scents of our carefully nurtured plants, one would hope they are doing us nothing but good and encouraging only positive thoughts. But throughout history, plants have been misused for misdeeds and responsible for fatalities, harbouring some of the most deadly poisons known. Long before modern drugs, chemicals and warning labels on cleaning products, the great outdoors would be the first place to look if murder was on the mind. Symptoms of poisoning were similar to those of many diseases, and given the difficulty of finding the poison in the body, criminals in days gone by had a good chance of escaping punishment. Stories of poisoning run through history and make interesting and often gory reading, from Ancient Greek and Roman times, through the Middle Ages and into the Victorian era. Royals wary of assassins would have ‘tasters’ to confirm their food was safe to eat, and it’s said that Louis XIV was so afraid of being poisoned that he employed 324 servants to monitor his meals. Some of these stories can be traced to Atropa belladonna, more commonly known as deadly nightshade – a herbaceous perennial in the same family of plants as tomatoes and potatoes. It sometimes pops up as a weed in gardens, and can be found in woodland and along paths and banks. All parts of the plant are poisonous, but it’s the shiny black berries that pose the real danger. During the Renaissance, a beauty tonic was made from the leaves and berries to redden the skin and dilate the pupils, which gave rise to the name belladonna, or ‘beautiful lady’. However, the berries contain atropine, which can also cause paralysis, hallucinations, convulsions and death. The Roman emperor Claudius was famously poisoned with deadly nightshade, at the hand of the serial killer Locusta who was hired by Claudius’ wife, Agrippina the Younger.

However, as with many potent plant-based substances, its powers have also been harnessed for good, and it has many modern-day medicinal applications including being used in pain relievers and antiinflammatories, and by eye surgeons to dilate the pupils. Poison hemlock (Conium maculatum) is another dangerous plant with a long history of misuse. Although it’s not native to this country, it can be found across the countryside in ditches and along riverbanks. This tall green plant is often mistaken for harmless cow parsley, with its feathery leaves and umbels of white flowers, however hemlock has distinctive purple blotches on its smooth green stems. All parts of the plant contain poisonous alkaloids that can be fatal even in small amounts when ingested. Just touching the plant can cause a skin reaction, but eating it can cause a slow death by paralysis, leading to respiratory failure. According to Christian mythology, the plant became poisonous while growing at the site of Jesus’ crucifixion. His blood touched the plant, turning it toxic. In Ancient Greece, hemlock was used to poison condemned prisoners. Socrates was famously sentenced to death by hemlock, as punishment for corrupting the minds of young men in Athens, and forced to drink the poison by his own hand. Despite the Royal Horticultural Society listing well over 100 plants

Gardening - oct.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 11:36 Page 2

GARDENING that can cause potential harm on the advice pages of its website (rhs.org.uk), serious poisoning by plants is uncommon in the UK. However, it’s common sense to teach children not to play with or eat growing plants (and to follow this advice as an adult!) and to use gloves when pruning or weeding. Check plant labels for toxicity warnings, and avoid anything poisonous if you have pets or children that are likely to nibble your garden plants. If you suspect a child or adult (or pet) has eaten something poisonous from the garden, seek medical advice and take a sample of the plant with you. Foxgloves are among the most common garden plants that cause concern, although recorded incidents of poisoning are rare. All parts of the plant contain cardiac glycosides, which can cause nausea, diarrhoea and skin irritation. However, like most plants that are on the RHS list, they are very unlikely to cause harm unless eaten in quantity. Monkshood, also known as aconite, is another beautiful plant commonly grown in gardens, but one of the UK’s most poisonous. It made headlines in 2009 when a woman was convicted of murder after lacing her ex-lover’s curry with poison derived from the plant – the first case of aconite poisoning in England since 1882. Its attractive hooded blue flowers make it popular, and there are also cultivars in pink, yellow and white. However, every bit of it is poisonous, especially the roots, which can affect the heart and be fatal in large doses. Wear gloves while handling plants in your garden. Like many other powerful plant substances, aconite is used in homeopathic medicine to treat anxiety, headaches and colds, along with other ailments. As they say, the difference between medicine and poison is in the dose. However, with tobacco linked to more than eight million deaths per year, this probably makes the tobacco plant, Nicotiana, by far the most deadly plant in the world. n

Plant of the month: Brugmansia (Angel's trumpets) This show-stopping plant flowers at the end of summer into autumn, with large trumpet-like flowers dangling from sturdy stems. Hailing from tropical climes, brugmansia won’t survive hard frosts, but can be grown outside in a sheltered spot over the summer months where it will make a tropical statement. It’s best to keep it in a pot, then bring it under cover into a cool greenhouse or cellar before the first frosts for a period of winter dormancy. It can also be grown indoors in a conservatory as a houseplant, but you’ll need space as it can easily reach a good couple of metres in height. Prune in autumn after flowering to keep the size in check, but wear gloves as the sap can irritate skin. In the same family as deadly nightshade, all parts of the plant are poisonous, particularly the leaves and seeds, which can cause paralysis, hallucinations, migraine headaches and even death if ingested.

• ellyswellies.co.uk; Instagram: @ellyswellies1

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOber 2021

TheBATHMagazine 79

THE BATH DIRECTORY - OCTOBER 2021.qxp_Layout 31 23/09/2021 11:44 Page 1

the directory

GCS

to advertise in this section call 01225 424 499

Electricians

House & Home

Graham’s Cleaning Services Ltd

WINDOW CLEANING IN BATH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

Specialist in commercial & retail and large domestic properties Traditional and Reach & Wash window cleaning services

Trusted, professional and fully insured. Tel: Office: 01761 433123 or Moble: 07989 302299 grahams.wcsltd@gmail.com grahamscleaningservices.co.uk

Health, Beauty & Wellbeing

Holiday Rental

60+ luxury properties for lets 2 nights to 5 months Holidays – For business – Friends & family – Temporary accommodation during renovation/relocation Contact: 01225 482 225 alexa@bathholidayrentals.com www.bathholidayrentals.com Providing 4 & 5 star self-catering properties since 2006

House & Home

Jewellery

Nigel Dando WE BUY Gold, Silver & Platinum in any form or condition.

Nigel Dando 11 Pulteney Bridge, Bath BA2 4AY Tel/Fax: 01225 464013 www.nigeldando.co.uk

Email: annadesign@btinternet.com

IS AVAILABLE TO PICK UP FOR FREE AT

CENTRAL

80 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOBeR 2021

issue 224

Cobb Farr PIF.qxp_PIF Full Page 23/09/2021 11:43 Page 1

PROPERTY | HOMEPAGE

A charming 4 bedroom Grade II listed end of terrace Georgian Villa located in a highly sought after residential area on Bath’s southern slopes and enjoying magnificent views to the rear overlooking the Lyncombe Vale. This beautiful family home which retains a wealth of original period detail has attractive rustic French style accommodation arranged over 4 floors which, is in need of a little decorative upgrading in some areas. On the ground floor there is an elegant formal drawing room to the rear which has an ornate first floor stone balcony and enjoys breathtaking views overlooking the Lyncombe Vale. To the front there is a large well-appointed family bathroom. On the first floor there is a pretty master bedroom to the rear enjoying the beautiful views and a further double bedroom to the front. There are 2 further generous bedrooms, both with lovely solid oak flooring on the top floor along with plenty of built in eave storage. At garden level there is an impressive hand painted bespoke ‘Shaker’ style kitchen with granite work surfaces and a Belfast sink. The kitchen is linked to a lovely dining / family room which has double doors leading out onto the sun terraces and gardens and a door to a useful boot room. In addition, there a 2 large dry storage vaults to the front. Externally there is a pretty paved sun terrace that spans the width of the property. There is a further sheltered sun terrace and seating area at the bottom of the garden and access to a large, detached stone built garage that has the potential to develop subject to the necessary planning consents. Significantly there is also access to a ¾ acre private orchard for recreational use which belongs to number 59 and the trustees of 6 neighbouring houses. This is a very special property and to fully appreciate it a viewing is recommended by the sole agents Cobb Farr.

Lyncombe Hill, Bath • 4 bedrooms • Family bathroom • Formal drawing room • Dining room • Bespoke kitchen • 2 vaults • Cloakroom • Stunning garden and sun terrace • Detached stone-built garage with the opportunity to develop subject to the necessary consents

£1,250,000

Cobb Farr, 35 Brock Street, The Circus, Bath. Tel: 01225 333332

THEBATHMAG.CO.UK

OCTOBER 2021

ThEBATHMagazinE 81

Cobb Farr October.qxp_Layout 1 22/09/2021 15:15 Page 1

Norton St Philip, Bath

£560,000

A newly constructed 2 bedroom detached house built by Malcolm Lippiatt Homes. The property has the advantage of a sitting room on the ground floor which could be used as a third bedroom. •

•

• •

•

Detached new build house

Sought after village location

Qubo glass roof to the rear. Optional extra 2 bedrooms both with en suites

Age exclusive property where one of the purchasers will be 55 years old or more.

Photos of show home

01225 333332 | 01225 866111

Cobb Farr October.qxp_Layout 1 22/09/2021 15:15 Page 2

High Street, Steeple Ashton

Guide price £1,000,000

A handsome Grade II Listed farmhouse offering generous accommodation. Ample driveway parking, en suite facilities, scope for extension/annexe, plus a wonderful, mature enclosed garden are a few of the other features of this magnificent home. • 4 bedrooms, 4 reception rooms •

En suite facilities

•

No onward chain

• •

Double garage

Walled, manicured garden

01225 333332 | 01225 866111

Winkworth fp October.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2021 11:38 Page 1

winkworth.co.uk/bath for every step... SALES

NEWBRIDGE - £695,000

2 reception rooms | 4 bedrooms | 2 bathrooms

BATHWICK - £900,0000

2 reception rooms | 3 bedrooms | 2 bathrooms

LANSDOWN - £550,000

1 reception room | 3 bedrooms | 1 bathroom

COMBE DOWN - OIEO £500,000

1 reception room | 3 bedrooms | 1 bathroom

For Sales or Letting Properties contact us on 01225 829000 bath@winkworth.co.uk WINKWORTH BATH bath@winkworth.co.uk 13 Argyle Street, Bath, Somerset BA2 4BQ Follow us on

Matthew Leonard

Lucy McIlroy

Denise Latham

Director

Lettings Manager

Knigh Frank FP.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 17:49 Page 1

P86.qxp_Layout 22 23/09/2021 16:42 Page 1

“Founded in 2011 by Marcus Spanswick, who already had 20 years’ experience in the industry, Mardan Removals and Storage Ltd is a, family run, professional full service removals and storage company based in Bath. Marcus wanted to build a company that he and his team would be proud of. The key to the company’s success is providing a personalised service, treating each customer as an individual to ensure they get an excellent removal service. Mardan have a fleet of vehicles allowing them to offer; commercial moving, local to international moves and storage”.

RECEIVE THE BATH MAGAZINE BY POST AND NEVER MISS OUT We deliver to over 20,000 addresses every month, and there’s plenty of pick up points around town. But if you live outside our distribution area or would like us to send a copy to friends or family, we offer a magazine mailing service. Make sure you never miss an issue... all 12 issues from just £30*

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS FROM JUST £30* SUBSCRIBE ONLINE AT www.thebathmag.co.uk/subscribe or call: 01225 424 499 DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL MOVERS • PACKERS • STORERS • SHIPPERS

St Peters, Devizes 25 highly specified homes with stunning views of the Kennet & Avon Canal. Show home open.

86 TheBATHMagazine

OCTOBeR 2021

issue 224

The General fp.qxp_Layout 1 23/09/2021 16:17 Page 1

Central

Andrewsonline.co.uk

Portland Terrace, Bath BA1 £550,000

01225 809 571

This is a beautifully presented Victorian period property located close to Royal Crescent and offers accommodation across three floors. Comprising of a spacious open through living space with bay window, period style fireplace and great storage solutions. The stylish fitted kitchen has access to the rear courtyard, plus a handy extra utility space. There are three double bedrooms on the upper floors along with separate bath and shower rooms. Energy Efficiency Rating: E

central@andrewsonline.co.uk

To view more properties and other services available visit Andrewsonline.co.uk

Camden

Andrewsonline.co.uk

Lower Stoke, Limpley Stoke, Bath BA2 £800,000

Commanding stunning views from an elevated hillside position, this highly individual, detatched property is five miles south of Bath in the sought after village of Limpley Stoke. Arranged over three floors the spacious accomodation features two reception rooms with spectacular views, four bedrooms, a family bathroom and separate shower room. Outside is a large parking area plus a double garage and to the rear a peaceful and secluded garden area. Energy Efficiency Rating: D

01225 809 868 camden@andrewsonline.co.uk

Andrews October .indd 1

To view more properties and other services available visit Andrewsonline.co.uk

22/09/2021 17:26

Newbridge Andrewsonline.co.uk

Horstmann Close, Bath BA1 £425,000

A very well-presented, light and spacious purpose built, third floor apartment forming part of a prestigious Regency-style modern development just a short level stroll from the extensive range of shops and amenities in Chelsea Road on the popular western fringes of the city. Three bedrooms (master en suite), a separate bathroom, large main reception room with views over the square and a good size kitchen. Energy Efficiency Rating: C

01225 809 685 newbridge@andrewsonline.co.uk

To view more properties and other services available visit Andrewsonline.co.uk

Bear Flat

Andrewsonline.co.uk

Oldfield Lane, Bath, BA2 £550,000

This property has a beautiful homely feel with plenty of character and a well-designed layout. In brief the accommodation comprises of: entrance hall, a kitchen with breakfast bar, a full-width sitting room with French doors opening onto a rear terrace, a dining room which includes an integral door to the garage. The first floor has two double bedrooms, a single bedroom and bathroom. The south facing garden features two patios and a lawn. Energy Efficiency Rating: D

01225 805 680 bearflat@andrewsonline.co.uk

Andrews October .indd 2

To view more properties and other services available visit Andrewsonline.co.uk

22/09/2021 17:27

Hamptons.qxp_Layout 1 20/09/2021 16:55 Page 1

Hamptons.qxp_Layout 1 20/09/2021 16:55 Page 2

The Bath Magazine October 2021

Articles inside

HOMES, INTERIORS & GARDENS GUIDE

WALKING WITH ANDREW SWIFT

INTERIOR PLANES

THE UNION WORKHOUSE

GARDENING

PORNOGRAPHER OR LITERARY GENIUS?

GOOD READS

FOOD REVIEW

PAINTED IMAGININGS

ARTS AND EXHIBITIONS

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER

WHAT’S ON

5 THINGS

FASHION FORWARD

IN-STEIN-T ATTRACTION

NOTES ON A SMALL CITY