Photos and the City

Slow travel & photography

While walking around Bath I noticed quite a lot of ghost signs, often for former dairy shops and started to collect them. Here is a little selection.   A ghost sign is an old hand-painted advertising signthat has been preserved on a building for an extended period of time. The sign may be kept for its nostalgic appeal, or simply […]

Next to the cathedral of Bath lies one of THE tourist attractions of England – the Roman Baths. The Romans in Bath In 836BC the British king Bladud discovered the natural hot springs and built the first Moorish baths around these springs. After the Roman invasion, they also took over the springs and built the temple around them in 60–70 AD. […]