History on display

We're hosting a talk on the history of Green Park Station on Wednesday 3rd March, at 6pm in the Bath Society Meeting room, upstairs at the centre.  The talk is open to all those interested in learning about the history of our beautiful site, from its Victorian beginnings to its re-birth as a destination for events, shopping and markets.
  
Our “History display”, unveiled in the foyer of the station in 2009, celebrates the life of the station.   Queen Square Station was opened in 1869 and formed park of the now closed Mangotsfield and Bath mainline.  The Station was closed in 1966, with the decline of English railways nation-wide. 

After years of dereliction, the site was painstakingly restored by the Bath and North East Somerset Council, beginning in the 1970s.  Green Park station was then re-born to Envolve, who developed the site as a market and shopping destination. 

The talk itself will be delivered by Mike Arlett, who is well known for several television series, books and dvds on local railways in Bath and Somerset & David Stubbs, Chartered Surveyor and Mayor of the Bath Honorary Guides. 

So come down and join us, learn some fun facts about the station, here about the restoration effort which helped make the station what it is today.