The Local Look November 2016

Reference Number: PP/2324/16/11
Level of Description: Item
Title: The Local Look November 2016
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Vowles, James: Editor
Various: Author
James and Jodie Vowles: Publisher

Bath

[email protected]
Date: 2016
Extent: Pages: 112
Description: A monthly community magazine serving the Bathampton, Batheaston, Bathford, Fairfield Park, Lansdown and Larkhall areas and the nearby villages. This issue includes the following articles: Tales of the railway: Bathford Bridge (a short history of the 175-year-old bridge designed by Brunel and which unusually carries a railway and public footpath) by Andrew Swift, pp. 26-27; Council invests in water wheel for community's renewable energy scheme (B&NES's investment in a new hydro-electric community-owned energy project on the River Avon), p. 28; Reducing toxic pollution in Bath with an A36-A46 link (details of a proposal to build a link road between the A36 and A46 roads to reduce pollution in Bath and prevent heavy traffic build-ups in Bathwick Street and the London Road) by Nicholas Hales; The tale of the Withy Bed at Bathford (a short history of the wooded plot of land that leads down to the river Avon between the By-Brook, and the railway bridge at Bathford) by David Howells, pp. 68-69
Subject: Pollution
Railway bridges
Urban planning