Bath Voice Feature: the steep road trod by Romans – but you need oxygen to ascend it
By Harry Mottram: On a bicycle it takes about 39 seconds to descend but on foot to go up Holloway…
Bath Voice Feature: Punts, skiffs and messing about on the river: a brief history of the Bath Boating Station
By Harry Mottram: They fell out over tin openers, clashed with steam powered cruisers and together with their dog, Montmorency,…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: conquest of Ben Nevis with my sister – a very British ascent with cheese sandwiches, Gulab Jamun sweets, missing chocolate, the misnamed Halfway Loch, precipitous paths and er… the Poo Rock
Wet, bedraggled and miserable: not us but one of the first couples coming down the mountain as we struggled up…
Bath Voice Theatre Review: Revealed – a brilliant, fiery and testosterone fuelled family drama with added violence and fried chicken
Theatre Review: Revealed at The Tobacco Factory, Bristol Men, men, men. You might ask, where are the women in Daniel…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: 36 Hours in Rome’s Airport – a birthday nightmare with added cheese rolls, Speedy Boarding and armed police plus overtones of Tom Hanks in The Terminal
36 Hours in Rome’s Airport As I walked out into the cool night air at Bristol Airport, I felt euphoria…
Bath Voice Theatre Review: The Mission Theatre’s gripping production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane includes biscuits, a little black dress and a murder weapon in Martin McDonagh’s black comedy
Step into Mag’s parlour where a badly tuned radio crackles in the background, a pot of porridge congeals on the…
BATH VOICE: How artists have viewed Bath in paintings on display in the Victoria Art Gallery
By Harry Mottram: They painted Bath as they saw it and what they saw was not the colour photos in the…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: The Spiv – the comic anti-establishment figure – but the real history is much darker as it led to the criminal gangs of the 1950s
The Axbridge Pageant in August 2022 had a cast of colourful characters from the town’s history – with one comic…
HARRY MOTTRAM FEATURES FOR ICSM BUSINESS NEWS Sunak or Truss: which Conservative leader and Prime Minister would be best for small and medium sized businesses?
As the former chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak and current Foreign Minister Liz Truss campaign for Conservative members’ votes,…
HARRY MOTTRAM FEATURES: When bombs fell on Bristol and dad shot down half an airplane
By Harry Mottram: When Britain declared war on German in 1939 the prospect of the conflict coming to the quiet streets…