American Reacts to Bath England
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- In this reaction I discover that Bath, England is a beautiful city with a very rich history. It has amazing architecture, Roman hot spring baths, walkable streets, tons of museums and amazing scenery. The first King of England was actually crowned here to give an idea of how deep the history goes.
Bath, England will definitely be a place I stop by when I come for a visit to England. A few of the many things I want to check out while I'm there are Bath Abbey, Pulteney bridge, the Roman baths, Thermae Bath Spa and the trails outside the City that take you to a great overlook.
Thanks for watching. If you enjoyed this reaction please give this video a thumbs up, share your thoughts about Bath, England in the comments and click the subscribe button to follow my journey to learn about my British ancestry.
👉 Help support my channel:
ko-fi.com/reac...
👉 Subscribe to my channel:
/ @reactingtomyroots
👉 Original Video from Ultimate Bucket List:
• Bath (England) Complet...
The Romans were here from 54BC and were gone by 410AD. Bath was built around 60AD. An abby is the church attached to a monastery (the living quarters of monks or a religious order).
We also we have cathedrals, which are churches that have a bishops seat rather than a priest. Bishops are higher ranking in the church than priests and might be heading a diocese.
..and it is not true to say that the Romans were pushed out of Britain - the Romano-British did not want them to leave: those who did leave, left of their own accord or executing orders from Rome which was trying to consolidate its forces to repel invaders in the core regions of the empire. The remaining Romano-Britons were told to make their own arrangements for their defence as Rome no longer had the ability or the will to continue to provide protection.
A slightly pedantic correction (apologies): "abbey" is the name of a monastic house headed by an abbot, a high ranking churchman. The church within a functioning abbey is the "abbey church". Abbeys and other monastic houses in England were dissolved and their buildings and lands confiscated by the Crown during Henry VIII's reign in the 16th century. Generally the buildings were sold intact to private individuals for conversion to dwellings or for scrap building materials but some of the more important churches (such as Bath Abbey) were retained by the Church, some as parish churches, some as cathedrals or other non-monastic ecclesiastical foundations. These churches and their attached claustral buildings tended to retain the word "Abbey" as part of their name, even though they were no longer "abbeys" in the true sense, no longer having an abbot or any monks. These places included Westminster Abbey, Malmesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury Abbey, Hexham Abbey, Dorchester Abbey and, of course, Bath Abbey.
\the Romans started abandoning Britian long before 410AD. it had seriously started to go wrong, in many places around300 - 330AD
Bath is nearly 2000 years old. Most of our cathedrals/abbeys are 1000 years
I was in Bath yesterday and let me tell you it is still so Glorious, absolutely stunning atmosphere and architecture to die for. An absolute must if you visit the UK.
Steve,your are not just an American looking at your history,you are a lovely respectful person absorbing information.Your comments and questions are wonderful.A joy to watch
He missed the Royal Crescent museum. It's a real gem and it's not just 'rich people's stuff'. It goes into the workings of the houses and kitchens and I really think worth a visit. Many of the large houses were split into apartments so they aren't necessarily for the super rich. Although with house prices these days they're still not 'cheap', but well below London, NYC and Seattle for example. Come visit!
A couple of them have council housing in them
Bath is my home town and I was blessed to have grown up there. A good film with a few errors. A Bath bun and a Sally Lunn are different things. Both are great to eat but they are not variations of the same thing. Toasted Sally Lunn with cinnamon butter is fantastic.
Bath is used for many of the external shots in Bridgerton, so if filming is going on, as it seemed to be in this, then places will be closed. They are often used in the show.
My favourite is the lemon curd bun. Just gorgeous.
It's great to see these videos , especially of places that are near to where you live. I live just 10 miles from Bath and we do most of our shopping there , but we get so used to it we don't take any notice of what's around us really.
Thanks Steve for reminding us to look up and around where we are....and not just rush around the shops.
Hope you have a great trip when you do eventually come to the UK...with your interest in all these places I'm sure you will.
The masons and architects back then were experts and masters of beauty rather than than just employees building for housing like today.
Precisely. Moreover, everything was made to last, none of this “built-in obsolescence” which regrettably seems today’s mantra.
Hi Steve, in answer to your question about abbeys and churches, here's a quick explanation
"What makes a church an abbey?"
An abbey is a church with buildings attached to it in which monks or nuns live or used to live.
I'm LOVING your vids and reviews. Keep them coming 😊
There's a n American museum in Bath. I remember reading there that knives were so precious in the early days of colonisation that only the head of the household used one to carve at meal times. Probably explains why Americans eat mainly with a fork.
That's really interesting and makes sense.
I’ve just found your channel. I was born in Bath and have lived just outside the city all my life. I’m also half Irish so will be interested to see your content on Ireland too 👍🏻
The Roman Baths at Bath were built hundreds of years before the 12th century. I've had some of the water from the fountain and actually liked it. It's definitely somewhere to visit when you make it over here. I haven't been to Bath for years, but it's a beautiful city. If you like abbeys and cathedrals, you should visit Durham Cathedral. There's a castle next to it too and they're both on a hill, on a peninsula.
I live nine miles from Bath. It's one of the best areas of the UK to live as far as I am concerned. Amazing history, great people and some really good fishing spots.
Hi Steve, check out cheddar gorge and caves. The gorge was created in the periglacial period over a million years ago. It is absolutely stunning there, if you like hiking you will love walking around there. And famous for cheddar cheese. Wookey hole caves which is not too far from I think are better caves to walk around. And obviously you have heard of Glastonbury music festival, Glastonbury is not far either, you have to hike up Glastonbury tor, it's a steep hill like with a single castle like tower at the top. When you get up there , there is 360 degree views that will absolutely blow you away. Amazing place. Also in Glastonbury is the remains of the massive abbey, they say king Arthur is buried there.
Another place is the Jurassic coast in Dorset. Your gonna need more than a month haha.
It's a great hiking along the canal towpath out of Bath towards Bradford on Avon the scenery is stunning 👍🏻
Also Bath has Park & Ride which means you can park in a large car park outside the city and catch a bus in.
I swam in the baths there but they are separate to the touristy bits very ancient roman baths but quite small situated in several different chambers, this was probably 50 or more years ago. We watched a proper butler in a black suit with tails carrying suitcases to the boot of his masters car in Royal crescent it was like going back in time.
I've not been to Bath, but after this I intend to go one day. I know about the Jane Austen link, I love Persuasion, which has a notable scene there. Good video..
During the yearly Bath Festival there used to be the Roman Rendezvous when the baths were open and we bought tickets to bathe in the main bath and the Kings Bath, while quaffing beer. We never caught any disease, but the water was grubby and stained white costumes. We would dress in sheets, as togas 😂, and spent the evenings soaking in hot water and coming out like prunes 🤣
Steve, the language spoken by the ancient Romans is Latin.... Aqua is the Latin for water.. hence Aquae Sulis
Yes, you did read that ONE of the baths in the complex was built in 1200. But this refers to the small Kings Bath and not the big one you see in most photos. When the Romans came to Britain in 54 AD, our island was inhabited by Celtic tribes. A thousand years before that in about the 9th C BC (BC not AD) there was a Celtic king called Bladud who developed a dreadful skin disease and had to isolate himself with a herd of pigs. In his wanderings, his pigs found a hot spring and, after bathing in this, his disease was cured. In gratitude for his cure, Bladud founded a city at Bath and dedicated the curative powers of the hot spring to the Celtic goddess Sul; 900 years later the Romans called the city Aquae Sulis - the Waters of Sul.
After the Romans left in the 5th C, their buildings fell into ruins. The Normans built the Kings Bath on top of the ruins in the 12th C. Restoration of the main baths was done in the 19th C.
American football evolved from rugby. In short, rugby was originally a college game there and they gradually changed the rules towards the end of the 1800s to end up as the NFL.
There are lots of TH-cam videos to help you learn about the worldwide game of rugby.
I feel very fortunate to have grown up living just outside the city of Bath, I am blessed being more in rolling valley countryside but still convenient to such a beautiful historic city
Any Abbey is a Cathedral that has held a Monarch's Coronation. The 10th century King Edgar was crowned here. Bath housed a Royal Mint, making coins for the realm and the old English name for the town, in Saxon times, was Bodir, the word meaning to go and wash. So your bath and bathroom has history!
Lots to see here in UK, you will have to get a priority list. If you intend to hire a car, we drive on the left with manual transmission being favourite. Our public transport is quite good, we are seen as being expensive.
Great video man! I work in Bath!
Hi Steve, good morning to you. Though I live in Cyprus now, Bath is where I was born, it is my home town.
@@valeriedavidson2785 I did not leave Bath for Cyprus. My father was in the RAF and we have lived in many places, including Cyprus. Cyprus may not be your cup of tea but it is a heck of a lot cheaper living here than in the UK, it also depends on what part of Cyprus you live in. I haven't lived in Bath since the mid 1980's but I have family that live there and they all say that it is not such a nice place to live anymore.
@@valeriedavidson2785 everything here has changed greatly. We live Paphos way and I certainly wouldn't live over Famagusta way.
@@valeriedavidson2785 each to their own.
I lived in Bath for a few years and it has to be one of the best places I lived in in England. It's expensive to visit or live in but such a beautiful place. The Bell pub (Walcot Street) is fantastic for beer, food and music.
BATH 8s beautiful and it in SOMERSET which is my home and I love it here
Am so thankful for armchair travel with You Tube.
Bath Abbey was originally used local Monks.
Try reactionThe Black Country living museum, it is absolutely fab
I'd love to go there. I've been to Beamish a few times and love it there.
The majority of our old churches have had a history of change. Every generation has knocked bits down and rebuilt in what was to them, the latest fashion. Towers have been demolished or re-built higher. Stained glass and carved images have been vandalised and often later restored. Bath Abbey was once a monastic church with an Abbot as head of the community of monks.
It was founded over a thousand years ago but the building you see is a product of time and change.
One interesting feature is the number of memorial tablets of fairly young people on the walls - indicating the desperation and hope of people who came to Bath looking for a restoration to good health - the scourge in the 18th century was "consumption" (tuberculosis)
Bath is my spiritual home, I have been visiting it yearly for the last 45 years, meeting my friend, its an amazing place they also have a Jane Austin celebration, where people dress up on costume and just wander round the city.
You should so a video on York - remains from the Romans, Normans and Vikings. Oh and do one of the Cotswolds because its fairytale like
For the Roman baths the water is treated in the pump room i believe. The Roman area besides not being treated go through Roman made lead pipes as well. Something really cool to notice that they really didn't emphasize was that the baths themselves which are the bottom area was in 12 century bc not ad and was built at street level during the Roman times the upper area with pumphouse and statutes were built in the later medieval and regency periods and the street level of that time.
As to religious buildings abbeys were actually a collection of religious buildings used by nuns or monks centered around an abbey church or Cathedral and run by an abbot or abbess. After Henry VIII's dissolution of most of the religious buildings often 5he only thing left is these abbey churches. Abbey's were usually bigger than a common parish church which were made to serve the local people and run by priests or later vicar. Cathedrals were the capitals of the dioceses and controlled by a bishops or arch bishops, they too could have abbeys, monasteries or nunneries connected, would hold minister to the people, hold liturgical services and mass etc and would conduct church business here as well. Monasteries were similar to abbeys but only for mem, usually fortified, followed a particular form of rule and were monks lived, worked and prayed and were usually founded in quite remote locations. Hope that helps clear up some of the confusion.
The circus etc was Georgian period not roman or medieval. Around Austen period and I would recommend somewhat a peak at no 1 museum as it gives an interesting look at what a townhouse in england looks like that isn't really available elsewhere and has the Regency period paraphernalia. To be fair it is the upper class lifestyle you are getting to see but that applies to much of what you typically view in history. Castles and manor houses for example are rich peoples homes etc. Bath was quite a contempory tourist location for regency and Victorian England and most of the attractions are "rich people stuff" if you look at it that way.
i'VE WATCHED MANY VIDS ON BATH, BUT ITS THE FIRST TIME ANYONE HAS MENTIONED 'THE AMERICAN MUSEUM'. HE WAS QUITE CLOSE TO IT, UP ON THAT HILL. THE MUSEUM IS A MANSION HOUSE, GIFTED TO THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR, AT THE THE END OF WW2, IN GRATITUDE FOR THE USA'S HELP. IT IS FULL OF UNIQUE AMERICAN ARTS AND CRAFTS, AND MUCH PRIZED ARTEFACTS THAT NOT EVEN US MUSEUMS HAVE. SET IN BEAUTIFUL GARDENS, WELL WORTH A VIST.
Not a mention of Prior Park, a must to see.
I did rather laugh when he said 12th century AD was a little later than he was expecting - the narrator was referring to Bath Abbey (which was rebuilt in the 12th century). As others have said the Romans left Britain in 410CE with Bath itself beginning to be built in about 60CE. The water is green from algae - originally there was a roof but the Victorians removed it which then resulted in the green water.
As an American Steve should watch Max Miller's episode of Tasting History The Sally Lunn Bun. The narrator refers to the Bath Bun and Sally Lunn Bun as being the same, but they are not. Despite what the narrator says, Max will convince you that the Sally Lunn Bun "is like eating one of the clouds of heaven".
As a Brit seeing cities such as Bath through the eyes of an American does make me appreciate how lucky we are to have such historic, beautiful and characterful places on our doorstep. As one who is married to an American and having travelled extensively there, makes me realise what this all feels like - America is such a young country with very few historical cities.
Honestly the Thermae Bath spa is not that expensive if you go in the week, it's much less busy when you go then too! It's something like £30 for the two hours but it's so worth it for the rooftop pool, especially if you go around sunset! It's such a beautiful city to wander round and the architecture is fascinating wherever you turn! Hope you can one day visit
The guy of Asian appearance is also the narrator of the video and has a Northern English accent, he was almost certainly born here of first or second generation Asian parents. This is what multi-culturalism AND being British is all about... assimilation.
Living next to Bath in Bristol, I'd say Bath is probably the prettiest city in the UK. That said, Durham, York, Edinburgh and Oxford are also beautiful historic cities.
All beautiful places. York and Bath are a bit prettier than Durham (although it's still pretty), but personally Durham Cathedral is the the best cathedral in the country. It may not be the biggest, but I personally prefer it to the likes of York Minster and Westminster Abbey. It's impressive on its own, but with the castle next to it and the location, on a hill, on a peninsula, it's really special.
The language isn't Roman, but Latin - a forerunner to Italian. The water is very warm. On a cool day you can see steam rising from the pool. An Abbey is a church which had a monastery or nunnery attached. The chief monk was called an abbot and the head nun was an abbess.
I know it's not widely advertised but I do think you would enjoy looking at Coventry, especially the two cathedrals.
Yeah the crescent and the curcus are very posh
Have you looked at st micheals mount in cornwall or vindolanda in northern England/ Hadrian's wall.
I miss the cycle path to bath,, from bristol,
An abbey is more like a multifunctional monastery, whereas a cathedral is more of a place of worship, or an extremely large church.
He didn't mention Bristol International Airport which is about 20 miles away!
I was confused by that too. I live just outside Bath and also, he didn’t mention Victoria Park 🤷♀️
@@marielouise9126 you're right!
Steve check out check out the city of York it has roman roots and was also settled by the vikings it has a cathederal called york minster so called because it monks minstered to the sick, the minster took 200 years to build. York also still has it's roman wall which used to suround the city. there are a lot of roman remains in britian including roman roads and also Hadrians wall which was built to keep the scotish tribes out. Abbeys are were monks lived and worked a lot were destroyed by king Henry the 8th.
The green pool is absolutely Roman up to about 5 feet up. Above that it is a reconstruction of about 1900, I think.
The City had a real difficulty with the Baths. They couldn't open the Baths for swimming because the water had organisms. So, with great difficulty, the City managed to get the new Baths built, still using the water. (I've been to the original spring, and it literally comes out of the ground boiling.)
Henry VIII abolished the English and Welsh monasteries - usually called 'Abbeys' - between 1536 and 1539. Most monastic buildings were demolished, or fell into ruin. But the monastery churches often survived, and are often still called Abbeys.
Churches which have the formal seat ("cathedra") of a a Bishop are called "Cathedrals ". Now I don't know whether Bath Abbey is technically a Cathedral, because of a strange fact. The local Anglican Bishop is called the "Bishop of Bath and Wells". Now Wells has if anything an even more stunning mediaeval Cathedral; but the logic should imply that Bath Abbey is also a Cathedral.
Our country has many of these huge mediaeval cathedrals. Possibly they were not as daft as we think they were back then!
In the eighteenth century it became fashionable for high society to go to "take the waters" at spas like Bath, which is why there ate so many wonderful buildings from that period. Jane Austen was a novelist who writes novels about this society - with a wicked eye!
I'm from Bath. The Romans invaded Britain in 43AD they built the Baths around 75AD. There has been a lot of history since so I expect the sign you glimpsed was probably discussing some of that. I don't believe the drinking water is treated, it just comes straight out of the ground from the spring, rather than hanging around ancient structures. It's perfectly safe to drink, but notoriously horrible!
Bath was bombed in April 1942. More than 400 people were killed, they are named on the Bath War Memorial. There is still some evidence of the bombing but most has been rebuilt.
I think you would reallu enkoy this city!
Hello Steve can I answer some of your queries. The language you referred to as Roman is known as Latin and is used to this day in the sciences, and leaves their mark on the English language, the Romans invaded in around 55 AD and the occupation lasted till the fifth century so they had time to make themselves comfortable.
An abbey was the home of monks ruled by an abbot, the better the abbots contacts the grander the abbey church. This all ended when that not so nice Henry VIII cut his links with Rome and soon saw away of raising cash by selling off the abbeys and the land that went with them and many of the fine churches fell in to ruin if not wilfully destroyed. You could spend a year touring such ruins to day
Sorry to have gone on so long but may I add that this Avon is different to the Warwickshire Avon. All the best.
Its Latin, which is what the romans spoke.
Hay there iknow you like the look of bath but there is another beautiful roman city its the city of york have a lookby the way the romans built the baths between60_70 ad
You seem to really love our old churches and cathedrals, though beautiful to me, these seem quite normal as it's what I'm used to. Though less extravagant, most old churches are somewhat similar in towns and cities. I'm curious, what are the churches like in America? Are they not at all similar??
I think behind the cathedral York Minster in York you can see stone masons working on renewing some artefacts. Yes Britain is chock full of History in almost all towns cities villages with castles stately homes and preserved ancient reenacted history if you are lucky, in certain parts. So do your homework beforehand on-line. National Trust has preserved buildings and scenery so you have a choice. Good trains for main routes but hiring a car for country areas and as distances are short that can work locally.
The language of the Roman Empire wasn't Roman, it was Latin. As a result of spending my first years in an American school (abroad), I was spared having to learn Latin when I was introduced (back) into the UK school system, for which I guess I thank you. But I kind of despair when finding out how little of the world the average American knows. Thank the universe for TH-cam eh?
The baths were built in the middle of the 1st century AD.
An ABBEY is a building that was occupied by monks or nuns.
I think a blank abbey may refer to one that is unoccupied now, there aren't any monks or nuns that reside there.
There is no such thing as The River Avon. Avon is an old English word and there is a similar Welsh word (Afon) which means a River..... so it would be like calling it the River River.
The river through Bath is actually called..." The Bristol Avon" as it flows through the city of Bristol too and out into the River Severn. Not to be confused with another river , the Stratford Avon ,which is somewhere else. . So Stratford on Avon means Stratford on the River.
There are actually 9 Avons in the UK. with 5 in England, 1 in wales and 3 in Scotland.
Hey Steve just subbed after watching a few vids, keep up the good work, im Scottish if u need any help with info , just ask
You should check out this video made by the BBC How to Build a Cathedral. It should answer some of your questions
Abbies are churches connected to monasteries or convents. There were many such places in Britain during medieval times, but King Henry VIII pretty much destroyed them when he closed the monasteries.
Go to 1066 it was there for at least 1000 year's before
Colums might be built in sections
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquae_Sulis According to the link from Wikipedia Aquae Sulis was beginning approximately 60AD
Bath was sacred to the Native Britons and they worshipped the Goddess Sulis. The Romans equated Sulis with their own Goddess, Minerva.
You want to look at Stonehenge too, nearby is the multi cultural city of Bristol.
We moved to Bath 20 months ago after 45 years in London. Best thing we ever did. It's an incredibly friendly place, and we felt at home the day we moved in. The narrator was an idiot. Why can you not appreciate architecture wealthy people live in? Nobody in or from Bath would touch a Bath Bun - mediocrity that's purely for the tourists. One of the biggest joys of the city (which he missed completely) is the variety of independent pubs in which you are guaranteed a conversation with strangers. They will be friends when you leave. There's also some great restaurants. His final error was to describe it as "reasonably priced". Everything is London price, including the houses. You get what you pay for!
most abbeys and churches in britain are centries old
And, may I also advise that is NOT correct etiquette to drink tea with the pinkie extended!
The Romans where here in BC Before Chist, the reason you haven't got old buildings is because there was no Americans before Christopher Columbus founded American, chisels and tools have been here since the Stone Age and the Bronze and Iron Age before the Romans
That airport locations are wrong the nearest airport is Bristol
Coronated? We say crowned. Another Amerucanisation derived from Latin whereas we have a perfectly good word for it which has been used for centuries.... crowned
I've heard this word a lot lately!
Bath, York and Colchester are amazing historical places in England and are definitely worth a visit.
I live in Colchester with the Roman walls and the now turned city just recently has a very dark history
There's a very good novel by Ken Follet, called Pillars of the Earth which is all about building a cathedral in the 12th century; it gives a good general background, even tho its fictional...and its a good read anyway.
Seconded - great novel.
Also 'Sarum' by Edward Rutherfurd - he put a lot of effort into researching the building of Salisbury Cathedral.
They've made a film/series on DVD of this. It's excellent.
I watched the pillars of the earth on the TV its a fabulous look into medieval history and cathedral building.
You're correct about the date the Romans left Britain. It was around 400 AD or just after and certainly not as late as the 12th Century, although some of the buildings close by may have been constructed in that century. The Romans first came to Bath in the 1st Century AD after landing in Britain in 43 AD. As others have said the water is green in the baths because of the algae that's growing in it because sunlight encourages its growth just like it does in many outdoor ponds and not because it's toxic. There are a few mistakes made by the narrator of the original video. The drinking water fountain water may not be to everyone's taste because it contains numerous natural minerals including some iron which may be the reason he thought it tasted like "rust".
There is a Living Archaeology project in France that is building a castle from scratch using only traditional materials and techniques. If you can find any videos on Castle Guedelon it will give you a great insight into how they built those great buildings with just a hammer and chisel and how they moved big building pieces with "hamster wheel" cranes, etc. Really interesting to look into (The BBC did a series of documentaries examining the castle).
The series is called Secrets of the Castle
And funded by the EU … that was us!!!🇬🇧
If you like hiking, you might like looking at the Peak District, the Lake District or the Yorkshire Dales areas. The countryside is quite spectacular!
Northumberland and the Newcastle coast is a hidden gem of Britian.
Those look like beautiful places to check out. Thanks for the recommendation.
@@reactingtomyroots look into Cornwall and Devon fishing villages my fav part of England in the west, Wales is stunning also along with Ireland and Scotland.
@@heathermcdougall8023 Northumberland every time heather! Beautiful.
The water in the open air bath is green because, being exposed to sunlight, algae grows in it. The original Roman baths, constructed between 60 and 70 CE, were enclosed so the water was much clearer.
I love Bath and try to visit every year or so. Thermae Bath is definitely worth the price and is a lot cheaper on weekdays - the first time I went it was snowing and sitting in the hot rooftop pool while snow was falling everywhere was quite magical (until we had to get out and wait for the lift). Bath is quite a small city and you could easily see most sights/attractions over a couple of days. It's also less than an hour's drive to Stonehenge and only 30 minutes to the city of Bristol, so it's a good base from which to explore the South West of England
In my last year of uni at bath! It's absolutely beautiful here and I feel very blessed to have lived here for three years. One other cool thing is that students get into the baths and museums for free, whereas the public have to pay. As well as the Jane Austen museum, there's also one for Mary Shelley just around the corner, as Frankenstein was written whilst she lived here.
Lovely place , Sally Lunns house dates back to 1482 , my son bought me back some Sally Lunns buns when he visited they were delicious , its the oldest house in Bath . 🙂
The video you were commenting on is full of errors. The guy seems to have an inferiority complex. I don’t like this video of Bath. He seems to be a bit woke.
It’s a beautiful city. He was very dismissive of The Circus and Royal Crescent as just rich people. The beauty of it is in the elegance and symmetry of the stunning Georgian architecture.
Over the years the UK have become far less religious, those means that there are a lot of beautiful churches and Chaples that have been left vacant, these have now been given other functions so.e turned into businesses and other into homes
Morning Steven, you should react to the Victoria cross with Jeremy clarkson or the greatest raid. The tomb of the unknown warrior is really interesting.
Thanks for the suggestion Kim. I'll bookmark them for later. :)
That was a very helpful video for visitors.
You will be wise to visit these Islands for a few weeks if you can to take in as much ad possible. There is so much more than the usual London based tourist places.
He gets some facts wrong. The architecture isn't Victorian - it is mainly Georgian (i.e. dating from before the time of the American Revolution). Kings aren't 'coronated' - they are 'crowned'. The obelisk in Queen Square, erected by Beau Nash, is a lot older than the one in Washington DC - indeed older than George Washington's presidency. The point of mineral water is that it has minerals in it - you don't drink it for the taste, but for the health-giving properties (there is still a 'Mineral Hospital' in Bath).
I was so pleased to read in Steve’s introduction to this reaction video message a reference to the first king of England to be crowned. It is therefore all the more disheartening that the presenter of this otherwise excellent overview of Bath uses that non-existent word which thrives like weeds - “coronated“. A coronation is where a monarch is crowned, NOT “coronated”.
Bath is famous for TWO types of bun; the Bath bun is the sweeter version with candied fruits and the Sally Lunn bun is the plainer and older type which is much larger and is eaten with savoury or sweet food spread on the two halves.
Hi. The roman baths in Bath were first built in the first century around 60 to 70AD which is why it's also so amazing to still have so many of the statues and architecture in such good condition
I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but most of what stands above ground is a modern (Victorian?) recreation. If you look closely at the columns around the bath itself you will see they are dark at the bottom and lighter upwards of that. That shows what was left of the original. Nevertheless, everything below that level is authentic and well worth a look. Even the 'modern' recreation is great though, so don't be put off.
I've seen a few people in videos talking about monarchs being 'coronated'. Coronated is not a real word. Kings and queens are CROWNED (with crowns, funnily enough) and the ceremony is called a CORONATION. I think the term was first used by hapless US reporters, who didn't have a clue what they were talking about. The Internet has caused it to spread, though hearing a British person use this nonsense term is sad to witness...
I go into about once a month for a meal and evening at the Theatre Royal. Fabulous place and city.
What really amazes me about the really old buildings is how they got all those blocks to the top. You can see castles in Wales on hill tops and cliff edges with high walls made from 100s of blocks, moved up there without bulldozers, cranes or lorries!
They did have cranes - they were man powered
It's so amazing. Every time I start truly looking at these buildings I just can't fathom how these men of old were so talented.
@@richardwest6358 Ropes and a pully 😀
I was taking a look at photos of a coach tour of UK and Ireland that we took back in 2015. The photos of Bath popped up and it occurred to me that Steve from Reacting To My Roots should react to a video about Bath. Glad to see that you already have. Bath is gorgeous! Have you watched any videos about Stonehenge? If not, I highly recommend it. Stonehenge is not far from Bath.
Lots of the places like the crescent are used to make historical films. Some places are closed because of this. The fabric shopping area has been missed out obviously as this was an historical video ❤
The water from the water fountain is full of minerals. You can drink that if you can stomach it. It was built by slaves, serfs, whatever you chose to call them. The whole world was build on the backs of slaves regardless of colour or race. There were true professional, such as stonemasons. To build many of these building, such as a catharidal it took a hundred years or more. Generations worked on these projects. They weren't in a hurry. The original London Bridge was the same as the bridge in Bath.
Hi Steve,
Yes all stone work and stained glass is all original Medieval craftsmanship, amazing isn’t it. Lots of lives were lost though building these magnificent structures but men risked their lives as they were building for the glory of God. Bath is a great city just a shame he had missed some of the attractions.
i love bath but check out bristol just as nice with way more to do and see but unknown to americans
Bristol is a mixed bag because of the architectural vandals of the 50s and 60s! Clifton is stunning though and Hanham Mills is perfect for a Sunday pub lunch and a walk.