Blue skies, smiling at me...

"The Guildhall in Bath... was built between 1775 and 1778 by Thomas Baldwin to designs by Thomas Warr Atwood. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

The current Bath stone building replaced a Stuart Guildhall, built in 1625, which itself replaced an earlier Tudor structure. The facade has 4 Ionic columns and the building is surmounted by the figure of Justice... The interior includes a banqueting hall... used on royal visits to the city including Queen Elizabeth II who had lunch in the banqueting room in May 2002.

The Guildhall was originally built as a town hall: it has never served as the meeting place of any specific guild. A suggested etymology is from the Anglo Saxon "gild", or "payment"; the guildhall being where citizens came to pay their rates." Wikipedia


Before an afternoon of hospital visiting, it was into Bath this morning to run a few errands and then to The Guildhall to listen to a talk on Hadrian's Wall, one of a series of talks celebrating the 30th anniversary of Bath becoming a UNESCO World Heritage site. I learned today that the only other city in Europe that has been awarded the same status is Venice, made me fully appreciate the importance of Bath's heritage!

Today's weather has been a complete contrast to yesterday; a cold, crisp, blue sky day, after a frost that brought down even more of those leaves! But the leaves will have to wait until tomorrow, ran out of both time and umph...