The next Saturday afternoon lecture in the Frome Society’s winter programme will be on Saturday 30th November and will be a talk by Julian Orbach about Bath as it might have been, but which was never built.
Julian, along with his friend Timothy Mowl, has jointly produced a book describing the many incredible buildings and projects that could have been built in Bath but, for various reasons, never saw the light of day.
Organiser John Peverley said, “Julian will show us these projects and explain why they were designed and why they failed. They included an immense Royal Forum by John Wood the elder, that straddled the River Avon, a vast double crescent by Robert Adam, a tall column celebrating the Great Reform Act of 1832 and many more.
“In the modern era, there was a plan for a dual carriageway behind the Royal Crescent, Basil Spence had some radical ideas for the Southgate Shopping Centre and James Dyson’s School of Design might have been found on the site of the Stothert and Pitt works.”
Julian is an architectural historian and researcher who lives in Bradford-on-Avon. Copies of Julian’s and Timothy’s book will be on sale at the talk.
Frome Society’s lectures take place in the Assembly Rooms at the rear of Frome Memorial Theatre (BA11 1EB) starting at 2.30pm. Visitors are welcome, but are asked to pay an entry fee of £5.
Pictured: Photo supplied by Julian Orbach of him (left) and Timothy Mowl (right)
