The Wonders of Bath Stone

This month we find out about Bath Stone - where it was mined and who was behind it.

Chief Executive Miranda Litchfield shows us around the Museum of Bath Stone which sits right on top of the now disused Combe Down Stone Mines.

It's Halloween so we asked our very own batman, Dan Merrett to show us behind the scenes of the batcave and tell us what happened to the bats that made the stone mines their home.

Finally we take a tour of Prior Park Landscape Gardens. Now owned by the National Trust, Prior Park Mansion was the country house belonging to Ralph Allen who funded the mining of the beautiful stone that built Georgian Bath.

Volunteer Robin Dixon takes us on an informative walk around the gardens on a beautiful sunny autumn morning.

Credits

Music: Audionautix

Produced by Pommy Harmar

Links

www.museumofbathstone.org

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/prior-park-landscape-garden

www.bathscape.co.uk

www.naturalbristol.wordpress.com

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About the Podcast

Footprints

This podcast is designed to inspire you to get out and explore the beautiful natural landscape surrounding the city of Bath, with its hills and valleys, grasslands and woodlands.

Season 1 brought a monthly flavour of the September walking festival through interviews with special guests, a recorded local walk and a 'top-tip' section with festival organiser Lucy Bartlett.

Season 2 delves deep into the rich diversity of the Bathscape, its culture, heritage, landscape and people.

Footprints was nominated for two ARIAS in 2023 in the Grassroots Show and Best Local Show categories!!

Hosted by walking and podcasting enthusiast Pommy Harmar. Get in touch with us through Facebook or Twitter or visit our website: www.bathscape.co.uk

About your hosts

Pommy Harmar

Freelance Journalist, radio producer, podcaster and walker. Pommy has been working in radio since 2013. She has produced and hosted podcasts including Sleeping with the Moon, Footprints, The Bristol Walkfest Podcast, The Quarantini, and Follow The Sun.

"It was excellent, really interesting and informative. The details and the way it was done, with three women farmers as key players, was really refreshing. I liked the voiceover and all the interviews." (Footprints, season 2 listener)

"All your topics on the Footprints podcast were relevant and fascinating to me as an older, female solo walker for the first time in the U.K." (Footprints season 1 listener)

Email: pommyharmar@yahoo.co.uk

Lucy Bartlett

Lucy is the Bathscape Community Projects Officer and a keen walker. She organises the annual Bathscape Walking Festival which aims to encourage people to discover the beautiful landscape around Bath.
Bathscape is very grateful to the National Lottery Heritage Fund and players of the National Lottery who fund our work.