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May
25

Walk the Four Mills of Widcombe

| 2.00pm | Meet at Quays Bridge, BA2 3DZ Friends of the Museum event At the Friends AGM, Tony Coverdale gave a fascinating talk on ‘The Four Mills of Widcombe’ covering the long history of […]
May
25

Film: The day the earth caught fire

| Film: The day the earth caught fire (1961) Saturday May 25th 7.30 p.m. £8  Bath Fringe Festival Event at the museum Regarded as the best British science fiction film ever made this documentary style […]
Jun
1

Documentary: Culloden (1964)

| Documentary: Culloden (1964) Saturday June 1st  7.30 p.m. £8  Bath Fringe Festival Event at the museum In the style of a ‘fly on the wall’ documentary 1960s film maker Peter Watkins presented this pivotal […]
Jun
8

Meccano Exhibition

| 8th-9th June at the Museum On the weekend of 8-9th June 2024 the Museum will be playing host to a display of Meccano models – including some exhibits based on designs by Bath engineering […]
Jun
15

Film: The time machine (1960)

| Film: The time machine (1960) Saturday June 15th 7.30 p.m. £8  Bath Fringe Festival Event at the museum G. Wells’s time traveller envisaged time as a sort of space ,through which you could travel […]

Bath Anglers’ Riverside Picnic c.1907

Sometimes you make a chance discovery while researching something un-related. I came across this fabulous photograph by local amateur photographer George Love Dafnis when looking on Bath In Time https://bathintime.co.uk/  (there are thousands of his […]