What do the dockside in Thessaloniki, Greece, the Port of Antofagasta Chile and the dockside in Wellington, New Zealand, have in common? Answer: they all have restored Stothert and Pitt cranes, standing proud and tall there. The cranes were made in Bath on the Stothert and Pitt site along the Lower Bristol Road. Stothert and Pitt were the ‘Crane Makers to the World’. This is the title of a book written by Ken Andrews and Stuart Burroughs in 2004. In 1980, the then Director of the Science Museum, claimed that ‘the contribution by Stothert & Pitt as a supplier of...

PRESS RELEASE As Bath slowly returns to a new normal, people will be welcomed back to the city’s famous Museum of Bath at Work as it reopens its doors with the message to please come back and enjoy a different experience as we work to keep us all safe. The Museum holds a unique local history collection and the reconstructed interiors of a engineering works, ironmongers shop, soft drinks factory, cabinet makers works and stone mining face. It is the Museum of the People of Bath. Following the Government’s announcement that heritage sites can reopen, the Museum of Bath at Work...