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In this episode we take a deep dive underneath the city of Bath and discover the geology that underpins it.
Professor Maurice Tucker from the Bath Geological Society tells us about the father of Geology, William Smith
Mike Williams is a landscape historian and ecologist and he talks about the affect of the landscape on settlement and biodiversity. He also shows us petrification in action!
Finally in our feature we go underground! Simon Hart, Managing Director and Owner of Hartham Park Stone Mine takes us down the mine where we meet a 16 ton chainsaw and see 200 year old graffiti.
Credits
Music: Audionautix
Produced by Pommy Harmar
Links
Bath Geological Society -www.bathgeolsoc.org.uk
Hartham Park Stone Mine - https://www.lovellstonegroup.com/quarry/hartham-park-bath-stone
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For this episode you will need to grab your popcorn, dim the lights and settle down for a magical journey to the heart of the filmmaking industry in the historic city of Bath.
Rachel Bowers from the Bath Film Office describes the process for bringing upwards of two hundred actors and crew into the heart of the city to film.
Charlie McCLoud gives us his very own ‘Life in the day of an Extra’.
Plus the Holburne Museum's Chief Operating Officer Emma Morris tells us the inside story of working in a building which famously doubled as Lady Danbury’s grand estate in the hit series Bridgerton
Links
Bath Film Office - www.bathfilmoffice.co.uk
Holburne Museum - www.holburne.org
Credits
Music: Richard Frohlich Media and the Texas Radio Theatre Company.
A short melody of Luigi Boccherini's minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op.13, No.6. Played by Howard Geisel
Produced by Pommy Harmar
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Happy New Year and welcome back to Footprints!
In this our first episode of 2024, we look back at our highlights from 2023. More than 40 people took part in the shows last year and a huge thanks must go to them for making the episodes so fascinating and varied to listen to. They and the organisations they represent are at the very heart of the Bathscape and we will hear from many more in 2024.
Clips
Ep 13 February - Living Working Bath: Mark Batterham shows us around the Moorlands Estate, the first council estate planned after the second world war and opened by Nye Bevin.
Ep 14 March - Art in the Landscape: Marian Hill talks about her exquisitely intricate and accurate identification charts of bugs, beetles and butterflies, using collage.
Ep 15 April - Wellbeing in Nature: Lucy Bartlett leads a walk for students as part of Be Well week and three students talk about why being outdoors helps their mental health.
Ep 16 May - The Call of the Wild: One of the wildlife enthusiasts featured in the episode Catherine Turner talks about her passion for spiders and has me peering deep into the long grass .
Ep 17 June - The Love of Trees: Joe McSorley, lead ranger for the National Trust shows us around Prior Park Gardens and tells us why the gardens were created and what the trees were used for.
Ep 18 July - Haile Selassie in Bath: Ras Benji allows us to tag along on a tour of Fairfield House where Emperor Haili Selassie lived during his time in exile during WW2.
Ep 18 July - Haile Selassie in Bath: Pauline Swaby-Wallace shows around the Windrush Centre and describes what it was like to come to Britain at that time.
Ep 19 August - What did the Romans ever do for Bath?: Combe Down resident Helen talks about the time she found a skeleton of a roman citizen buried in her garden wall!
Ep 20 September - Farming in Bath: Bob Honey has a pedigree herd of Herefords, but he also has a cider apple orchard. This is a clip of him describing the year in the life of an apple. You will hear glorious names of apple varieties such as Slack-ma-Girdle!
Ep 21 October - Radical Bath: In this clip, Professor emerita June Hannam talks about why Bath was important to the Suffragettes and tree planting at Eagle House.
Ep 21 October - Radical Bath: the episode brings us right into the present with Kidical Mass campaigners talking about their mission to create safer streets for children to cycle in.
Ep 22 November - Bath at Night: We visit the West of England Falconry Centre in Newton St Loe and hear about Bella the rock owl during one of their flying displays.
Ep 23 December - Three Grand Schemes: This episodes hears about Bath Preservation Trust's renovations to Beckford's Tower, one of the National Trust's Green Corridor schemes at Bathampton Meadows and the recently-opened Cleveland Pools. In this clip three inspiring women talk about their experience of swimming in temperatures of around 10 degrees!
Our thanks to all our contributors throughout 2023
Stuart Burroughs, director, Museum of Bath at Work
Diana Ahmed, Twerton artist
Mark Batterham, local historian
Jessica Palmer, Bath artist
Perry Harris, Bath artist, watercolourist and cartoonist
Marian Hill, Bath illustrator
Chris Pound, architect, writer and World Heritage expert
George Cook, project officer, Avon Wildlife Trust
Mike WIlliams, Bath naturalist, specialist in beetles
Catherine Turner, Bath naturalist, specialist in spiders
Alan Rayner, Bath naturalist, specialist in mosses, lichens and liverworts
Helen Hobbs, organiser, Chalcombe Toad Patrol
Karen...
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This month we celebrate three grand projects happening in Bath - Cleveland Pools, Beckford's Tower and Bathampton Meadows.
Cleveland Pools - back in 1801 a new bylaw was passed - the Bathwick Water Act. It prohibited nude bathing in the river Avon and so was born Cleveland pools because the swimmers had nowhere to swim.
Cleveland Pools is only a short walk the other side of Sydney Gardens and has recently reopened to the pubic following years of planning and designing, lottery applications and of course the building works.
Now, with its highly modern heat pump allowing it to be heated during the summer, it has already attracted Bath’s keen cold water swimmers. Its manager Sam Grief and some hardy swimmers bring it to life.
Beckford’s Tower stands tall on the top of Lansdown, visible for miles around. It’s closed at the moment, shrouded in scaffolding and plastic while all kinds of major renovation works are carried out. It was built for William Beckford, a writer, collector and slave owner and Dr Amy Frost from the Bath Preservation Trust tells us about its complex history.
We finish the episode at Bathampton Meadows which is a new acquisition for the National Trust. It is one of their 20 green corridors sitting just below Little Solsbury Hill by the river Avon. Joanna Rolfe from the National Trust tells us how it came about and what plans they have for the site.
Credits
Music: Audionautix
Produced by Pommy Harmar
Links
Bathampton Meadows, National Trust
Bath Preservation Trust
Cleveland Pools
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The autumn has arrived and it’s that time of year to hunker down and stay warm. It's the perfect season to explore the nighttime in and around Bath.
In this episode we find out about the night sky and visit the Herschel museum where Uranus was discovered back in the 18th century. We’ll hear about the owls in Newton St Loe, delve into the reasons why some animals are nocturnal and our very own batman Dan Merrett will take us on a bat walk around Combe Down.
In this episode we start by meeting the owls at the West of England Falconry Centre in Newton St Loe. Naomi Johns, centre manager tells us all about their owls. Their events start again in early march.
In our Expert Eye section, we find out about the Herschel family. William Herschel was born in Hannover in 1738 and came to Britain as a refugee fleeing the French when he was just 18. He was an accomplished musician and came to Bath to take up the post of organist at the very fashionable Octagon chapel in Bath.
The manager of the Herschel museum in Bath Joe Middleton tells us how he came to make the transition to one of the most famous astronomers of his day.
We finish with a bat walk with our very own batman - Bathscape’s Manager Dan Merrett and meet at least three species!
Credits
Music: Night Music by Kevin MacLeod (YouTube Audio Library)
Produced by Pommy Harmar
Links
West of England Falconry Centre - www.westofenglandfalconry.org.uk
Herschel Museum - www.herschelmuseum.org.uk
Bathscape - www.bathscape.co.uk
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This month is about Radical Bath which over the centuries has had a rich underbelly of radicalism and rebellion with its streets home to rallies and riots.
Andrew Swift takes us on a walk around Bath where we hear about the struggle to get the vote and the importance of Chartism in the city.
Professor Emerita June Hannam tells us about the suffragette movement and how Eagle House became a refuge for suffragettes when they came out of prison.
Annie Beardsley remembers taking a show with Bath Natural Theatre Company to support the Solsbury Hill bypass protesters in 1994.
And finally we join Kidical Mass - a group of cyclists campaigning for safer streets for children to cycle in.
Credits
Music:
Audionautix
Arianna Cunningham - first feature with Andrew Swift.
Produced by Pommy Harmar
Links
Andrew Swift - Akeman Press
Kidical Mass - Facebook site
Natural Theatre Company
Bathscape
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We're celebrating our 20th episode this month!
And it's all about the world of farming.
But first - Lucy Bartlett has just organised Bathscape’s seventh highly popular annual walking festival and she updates us on what to expect this year.
We visit local farmer Bob Honey who talk about his prize herd of Herefords and he's a man knows the difference between a Brown Snout, a Slack me girdle and the ten commandments. He is a cider apple farmer!
Biddy introduces us to her alpacas on her farm within 10 minutes walk of Marks and Spencers in the heart of Bath.
Mark Smith from Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG) tells us why he's excited for the future of farming.
Credits
Music: Audionautix
Produced by Pommy Harmar
Links
Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group
Bathscape
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So what did the Romans ever do for Bath?
Why did they come? What did they contribute? What impact did they have over the 400 or so years they were here?
To find some answers, this month we travel back two thousand years.
Bob Whitaker, Archaeological Adviser BACAS (Bath and Counties Archaeological Society) specialises in the Romans and describes the route they first constructed to reach Bath. He talks about the Roman lead mines in the Mendips and also the impact that geophysics has had on archaeology.
We take a tour around the award-winning Roman Baths Clore Learning Centre with Lindsey Braidley, Learning and Participation Manager, and hear about the activities they have designed for local school children and community groups.
Plus a local woman living in Combe Down tells us of the extraordinary find of a roman skeleton in her garden wall.
Credits
Music: Audionautix
Produced by Pommy Harmar
Links
BACAS - https://www.bacas.org.uk/
Roman Baths Clore Learning Centre - https://tinyurl.com/2s3px7se
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This month we investigating the time when Haile Selassie came to live here in Bath, in exile. We find out about this remarkable African royal figure, seen as 225th in the line of the king of kings of Ethiopia. Not only a monarch whose roots are considered to reach back as far as King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, but also a man revered in his lifetime and now, as God incarnate by followers of the Rastafarian faith.
Princess Esther Sellassie Antohin, great granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie joins us from Addis Ababa and gives us great insights into his life and work.
We take a tour around Fairfield House with Ras Benji. This is the home where Haile Selassie lived almost a century ago with his family during his exile in Bath.
Then we’ll come right up to the present day and find out about Bemsca, (Bath Ethnic Minority Senior Citizens Association) what happens there today with Pauline Swaby-Wallace.
Links
Fairfield House Bath
www.bathscape.co.uk
Credits
Music: Audionautix
Produced by Pommy Harmar
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Welcome to this June episode of Footprints in which we are celebrating trees.
There are two nature inspired festivals happening in Bath this month and we bring you news of both of them. Dr Penny Hay and Andrew Grant talk about the Forest of Imagination taking this year, the Assembly Rooms as its inspiration and also we’ll explore the Festival of Nature with Director Savita WIlmott, which is in its 20th year and is including some special tree walks.
Joe McSorley, Lead Ranger for the National Trust in Bath, joins us from Prior Park Landscape Gardens and shares some of his considerable wealth of knowledge around trees.
We’ll also find out about a new urban tree trail 'Leafy Legacies' with Hugh Williamson.
Credits
Music: Audionautix
Produced by Pommy Harmar
Links
National Trust Prior Park Landscape Gardens
Festival of Nature
Forest of Imagination
Leafy Legacies - a new urban tree trail discovering the trees of central Bath
www.naturalbristol.wordpress.com
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This month we celebrate wildlife enthuiasts.
It’s springtime and we thought we’d bring the outside in and isten to the call of the wild.
We start the show at Bath city Farm and meet Ribin the Robin. Naturalist Mike WIlliams tells us his story.
Staying at Bath City Farm, Bathscape's Lucy Bartlett surveys newts and we hear how the newt population is doing in the farm's ponds.
Catherine Turner takes us on a walk towards Englishcombe and hunts for for spiders.
Alan Rayner is a specialist in mosses, lichens and liverworts of which there are over 1000 species in the UK and more than 100 in Smallcombe cemetery where we find him.
Helen Hobbs is the patrol manager for the Chalcombe toad patrol. For 6 weeks of the year toads migrate across Chalcombe Road where, every evening, 40 volunteers take it in turn to help them keep safe.
Finally we hear from one of Bath and North East Somerset Council’s ecologists Karen Renshaw. We find out about Adders Tongue ferns and what the Council is doing to improve biodiversity in the city.
Resources
Newts
How to identify newts
Amphibian and Reptile Conservation - newts
Spiders
Natural History Museum - spiders
Britain's Spiders: A field guide, Lawrence Bee, Geoff Oxford and Helen Smith, WILDGuides
Mosses, Lichens and Liverworts
A Guide to Finding Mosses In Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, Peter Creed and Tom Haynes. Pisces Publications
Toads
Froglife Toad Patrols - search for Chalcombe toad patrol
Biodiversity
Bath and North East Somerset Council: Ecology and Biodiversity
Credits
Music: Audionautix
Photography: Mike Williams
Produced by Pommy Harmar
Links
www.bathscape.co.uk
www.naturalbristol.wordpress.com
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This month it is all about Wellbeing and how getting out and about especially into nature does us the world of good. Walking is a great form of exercise; but it’s also a time to think, reflect and maybe slow down and notice the details and the beauty of the world around us.
We start up at Bath University where in March, it was BE WELL WEEK and Bathscape’s walking festival organiser Lucy Bartlett put on a wellbeing walk for students. Some of the students talked about why they had come on the walk.
Chris Pound is credited with being one of the movers and shakers behind the city of Bath being listed as a Unesco World Heritage site for a second time, this time as one of the Great Spa towns of Europe. In our Expert Eye section, he talks about the different ways landscapes over the centuries, have been considered to be therapeutic.
Finally, George Cook, the People and Wildlife Officer for the Avon Wildlife Trust tells us about the Natural Pathway sessions he runs at Bath City Farm.
Links
www.bathscape.co.uk
Avon Wildlife Trust
Bath City Farm
Unesco World Heritage
Bath University Be Well Week
www.naturalbristol.wordpress.com
Credits
Music: Audionautix, Ville Nousiainen
Produced by Pommy Harmar
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This month we are serving up a fabulous trio of local Bath artists who, using a variety of materials and techniques, are united in their love of landscape and the creatures and plants that make it their home.
Bathscape Manager Dan Merrett starts us off in the Victoria Art Gallery with a history tour of artists who have painted the Bath landscape since 1730.
Jessica Palmer shows us round her first ever solo exhibition in the Victoria Art Gallery - free to visit until 11th April 2023. Jessica's clients include Disney Pixar and English Heritage. In her exhibition entitled Wetland Spring, she uses watercolour and paper cutting to bring the wetlands to life and show us the many varied creatures that live within this unique and important habitat.
Perry Harris is a cartoonist and landscape artist using paint and digital colour to bring Bath to life. He loves to paint his favourite landscapes including Primrose Hill, The Cotswold Way and Smallcombe Vale. He persuades me to climb up to the top of the tower of the Royal High School where he works to be interviewed!
Our final artist is Marian Hill who is an illustrator. She produces beautiful posters of bugs and butterflies, minibeasts and pollinators. With the expert help of local entomologist Mike Williams, she works painstakingly to create accurate as well as stunning work using collage. She has worked closely with Bathscape and local schools.
You can see contemporary artists' works around trees and landscape this summer at the Forest of Imagination which will run from the 14th June 2023 at the Assembly Rooms in Bath.
Thanks go to The National Lottery Heritage Fund and players of the National Lottery who fund the work of Bathscape.
Links
Jessica Palmer: www.jessicapalmerart.com
Twitter: @JessCutitout
Perry Harris: www.bath.co.uk/spotlight/perry-harris-artist-illustrator
Twitter: @Uhperry
Marian Hill: www.marianhill.co.uk
Twitter: @hill_marian
Victoria Art Gallery, Bridge Street, Bath BA2 4AT
www.bathscape.co.uk
www.naturalbristol.wordpress.com
Credits
Music: Audionautix
Produced by: Pommy Harmar
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In this episode we delve into Bath’s social history exploring the world of work and housing from the industrial revolution right up to the present day.
We set the scene with Stuart Burroughs - Stuart has been the Director of the Museum of Bath at Work for the last 30 years. In a nutshell the museum celebrates the city’s commercial development since Roman times. The photographic exhibition along with some amazing reconstructed workplaces and workshops are all beautifully exhibited at the museum which opens again at weekends from 18th February 2023.
Twerton artist Diana Ahmed shows me around Twerton high street and talks about the public art project she carried out with local schools to improve her neighbourhood.
In our final feature we explore a housing estate on the south side of the city just above Twerton. Mark Batterham takes us on a walking history tour of the post-war Moorlands estate. He co-created this walk with fellow walk leader and co-researcher Dave Pearce. The design of the Moorlands estate has been praised by architects and planners for its emphasis on space and light. The Bath Chronicle excitedly reported how 'the living rooms of the houses will face south and have a sun terrace outside'. To put it in context, when this estate was built, four out of ten British households had no fixed bath, well over a third had outside toilets and under half had a hot water tap.
Credits
Music: Audionautix
Produced by Pommy Harmar
Photo credit: Moorlands estate, Mark Batterham
Links
www.bath-at-work.org.uk
diana@peoplercommunity
www.naturalbristol.wordpress.com
With thanks to the National Heritage Lottery for funding the podcast.
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Happy New Year and welcome back to Footprints!
In this our first episode of the year, we look back at our highlights from 2022. More than 40 people took part in the shows last year and a huge thanks must go to them for making the episodes so fascinating and varied to listen to. They and the organisations they represent are at the very heart of the Bathscape and we will hear from many more in 2023.
Clips
Ep 1 February - Views of Bath: Andy Dinham whose family farmed Kelston Round Hill for decades.
Ep 2 March - Death in Paradise: John Payne, local historian whose ancestors are buried in the workhouse burial ground near Wellsway.
Ep 2 March - Death in Paradise: Dr Molly Conisbee on the history of the workhouse.
Ep 3 April - One farm through one century: Rachel De Fossard talking about her father's dairy herd and Foot and Mouth.
Ep 4 May - A path through the trees: Oliver Langdon from Kilter Theatre Company in the character of January, taking us through the wassailing ceremony at Bath City Farm.
Ep 5 June - Paddling the canals of Bath: Patrick Moss (Chair) and Derrick Hunt (Committee Member) from the Somersetshire Coal Canal Society.
Ep 6 July - Spotting beavers on the river Avon: Bevis Watts, CEO Triodos Bank paddles me up and down beaver alley - do we spot a beaver?
Ep 7 August - Meadows, seeds and yellow rattle: Paul Pearce Bath Parks Dept talking about the state of wildlife and the importance of meadows.
Ep 8 September - Walking Festival magic: Stephen Bird, former Head of Heritage Services Bath, on his passion for walking.
Ep 9 October - Community Growers: Claire Loader, co-founder of Bloomin' Whiteway and Rachel Spence, co-founder of the Peace Path in Whiteway.
Ep 10 November - The wonders of Bath stone: Miranda Litchfield, CEO Museum of Bath Stone showing me around the museum.
Ep 11 December - Tourism in Bath, past and present: Kirsten Elliot, local historian guiding me through a day in the life of a Georgian visitor to Bath.
Contributors throughout 2022
Di Sheppard, Landscape Architect, Bath and North East Somerset Council
Andy Dinham, retired farmer, Kelston Round Hill
Dick Bateman, local historian, Kelston Round Hill
Billie Brocklehurst, Brocks Outdoor Adventures
Barry Cox, Cotswold Warden
Nicole Daw, Cotswolds National Landscape
Rob Kendall, Cotswold Warden & Little Solsbury Commoner
John Bartram, Cotswold Warden & Chair of the Cotswold Way Association
Richard White, lecturer Bath Spa University, creator ‘Walking the Names’ project
Bathscape volunteers
John Payne, local historian and writer
Dr Molly Conisbee, Researcher, University of Bristol
Marianne Brunt, granddaughter of first owners of Manor Farm, Langridge
Rachel de Fossard, daughter of family of farmers, Manor Farm, Langridge
Donald MacIntyre, current owner and farmer, Manor Farm, Langridge
Jane Lipington, current owner and farmer, Manor Farm, Langridge
Laurie MacIntyre, daughter of current owner and farmer, Manor Farm, Langridge
Fiona Bell, Tree trail enthusiast
Joe Middleton, Woodland Trust site manager
Oliver Langdon, Kilter Theatre Company
Tom Sheppard, High Sheriff of Somerset
Councillor June Player, Mayor of Bath
Patrick Foss (Chair) and Derrick Hunt (Committee member) Somersetshire Coal Canal Society
Julian Stirling, Claverton Pumping Station
Bevis Watts, CEO Triodos Bank
Alison Peach, Bath resident and ottercam operator
Anna Baker, Director, Cleveland Pools Project
Anita Breeze and Chris Kinchin-Smith, Directors of...
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This month we're celebrating tourism in Bath - discovering what has drawn people to live in or visit Bath since neolithic times.
Paul Simons is the man who brought Thermae Baths to the city and is now Chair of the Trustees of the Cleveland Pools Project. In addition he is also the Secretary General of the Great Spa Towns of Europe! This is a world heritage site covering 7 countries and 11 internationally famous spa towns. He tells us about this and how Bath Spa has been re-invented 5 times in its history.
Kirsten Elliott, historian and Mayor Guide Emeritus, takes me on a walk around Georgian Bath to find out what the Georgians might expect when visiting. And we discover what they did when they weren’t bathing...
The Bath Christmas markets are in full flow, drawing thousands of visitors to the city and enchanting their senses with the beauty of the lights, sounds and the smells.
Kathryn Davis, Director of Tourism at Visit West, brings us right up to date and tells us about what they’re doing now to attract visitors.
Credits
Music: Audionautix
Bath City Jubilee Waits
"Cathedral Bells" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
Produced by Pommy Harmar
Links
www.thermaebathspa.com
www.akemanpress.com
www.visitwest.co.uk
www.bathcityjubileewaits.org.uk
www.naturalbristol.wordpress.com
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This month we find out about Bath Stone - where it was mined and who was behind it.
Chief Executive Miranda Litchfield shows us around the Museum of Bath Stone which sits right on top of the now disused Combe Down Stone Mines.
It's Halloween so we asked our very own batman, Dan Merrett to show us behind the scenes of the batcave and tell us what happened to the bats that made the stone mines their home.
Finally we take a tour of Prior Park Landscape Gardens. Now owned by the National Trust, Prior Park Mansion was the country house belonging to Ralph Allen who funded the mining of the beautiful stone that built Georgian Bath.
Volunteer Robin Dixon takes us on an informative walk around the gardens on a beautiful sunny autumn morning.
Credits
Music: Audionautix
Produced by Pommy Harmar
Links
www.museumofbathstone.org
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/prior-park-landscape-garden
www.bathscape.co.uk
www.naturalbristol.wordpress.com
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This month’s episode discovers the community of growers and gardeners in and around Bath. In recent years there’s been a resurgence with more people coming together to grow and share food, care for the land they live near or on - maybe in an effort to help communities tackle some of the challenges we’re all facing.
Hamish Evans, co-founder of Middle Ground Growers tells me about their market garden, Weston Spring Farm, nestling just below Kelston Roundhill in Weston. They deliver organic veg boxes to 120 local households by bike. Their farm goes beyond sustainabilty and operates as a regenerative, agri-ecological model including a nuttery, coppice, wildflower meadow, bee hives, bird boxes and of course the fruit and veg beds. Soil health is improving, insects and birds are increasing and the local community is benefiting.
I meet with Emily Wright, Chair of Grow Batheaston who shows me around their Forest Garden. This is a small patch of land behind the Secret Garden in the heart of the village. A Forest Garden is a layered garden where everything has a benefit - whether it be edible, medicinal, or to our wellbeing. Everyone is welcome to join the growers club and the community planting club. There are also regular pop-up markets. Info can be found using the links below.
Finally I spend a day around the peace path in the heart of the Whiteway estate. Claire Loder talks about the origins of Bloomin' Whiteway with its annual Front Gardens Festival; Lucy Bartlett takes a group of us bug hunting and community worker Rachel Spence talks about creating the peace path and the hope that this piece of land is bringing to the community.
Credits
Music: Audionautix
Produced by Pommy Harmar
Links
www.bathscape.co.uk
www.middlegroundgrowers.com
www.facebook.com/MiddleGroundGrowers/
www.growbatheaston.co.uk
www.facebook.com/Grow-Batheaston
www.bloomingwhiteway.com
www.facebook.com/bloomingwhiteway
www.naturalbristol.wordpress.com
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It’s September and it's time for Bathscape's wonderful annual walking festival!!
The episode begins with an interview on the top of Landsdown with Stephen Bird. Stephen has recently retired from being head of Heritage Services for BaNES Council. He is very enthusiastic walker and talks about his favourite walks in Bath, the joys of long distance walking and a sponsored walk between the three UNESCO World heritage sites of Avebury, Stonehenge and Bath. He gives us the benefit of his background in heritage and archaeology and brings to life the beautiful synergy of both the heritage and the landscape of Bath.
Walking festival organiser Lucy Bartlett and I meet up to hear about what this year's programme has in store for us.
She also takes me on a preview walk around Bath City Farm, a magnificent place, not just for the animals, but also the woods, the fields, the ponds and the staggering views over Bath. The walk we went on has been planned with The `Cotswold National Landscape. It’s suitable for the whole family and takes place on the first day of the walking festival on September 10th.
The walking festival runs from 10th - 25th September 2022
Credits
Music: Audionautix
Photograph: www.bathnewseum.com
Produced by Pommy Harmar
Links
www.bathscape.co.uk/walking-festival/
www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk
www.bathcityfarm.org.uk
www.naturalbristol.wordpress.com
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Back on land this month after two episodes on the water - this time we are exploring the wonderful world of meadows.
From Bath city centre, I walk up to meet with Anita Breeze and Chris Kinchin-Smith, two of the Directors of the Friends of Lyncombe Hill Fields where they show me their newly created meadows and the second UK site of a Tiny Forest!
I then walk over to Smallcombe Vale meeting Bathscape Manager, Dan Merrett on the way to find out from National Trust Assistant Ranger Issy Troth and George Cook, Avon WIldlife Trust, about seed collecting and the all important meadow plant Yellow Rattle.
In between, Team Leader of Bath Parks Project, Paul Pearce gives us his expert knowledge on meadow creation and the importance of increasing biodiversity in our landscape.
Credits
Music: Audionautix
Produced by Pommy Harmar
Links
www.friendsoflyncombehillfields.co.uk
www.bathnes.gov.uk
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk
www.naturalbristol.wordpress.com
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