Tuesday, July 18, 2006
The statute of a woman you can see atop the railing in front of the people was actually added by the Victorians. The Roman part is only original under the balcony. In the 1700s Bath decided to raise the street level 17 feet because of flooding. In the 1960s even with that drastic raising of the street level the River Avon rose 33 feet in a flood and swept out the stores on the Pulteney Bridge.