History
Green Park Station was originally Queen Square Station, built in
the 1860s, and in operation as a working station until the
1960s.
Markets at Green Park Station
Our covered outdoor market square is ideal for themed events, campaigns, arts and music, and is host to a wide variety of activities in Bath’s annual calendar.
Shopping at Green Park Station
The Market Square at Green Park Station is open seven days a week to shoppers, and we work to promote their work and trade.
What's On at Green Park Station
As well as our weekly Saturday Market (which includes Bath Farmers' Market). We also host events and regular themed markets throughout the year. Whether it’s Vintage & Antique markets, local music, dancing displays, exhibitions or campaigns, Green Park Station is a regular location for locally-focused events.
South Vaults
We provide office space to a variety of social change organisations serving the Bath area. The South Vaults is below the main Green Park Station Concourse.
Working with Site Specific Creations
Working with Site Specific Creations
The atmospheric backdrop of Green Park Station is fertile ground
for artists and performers looking for inspiration. Reaction to the
stunning architecture and memories of ‘trains gone by’
has generated several site specific drama and dance pieces, often
performed by students & young people – something we want
to encourage more of!
Such ‘site-specific’ performances aim to engage
audiences & performers in the environment they find around
them. During the Bath Fringe Festival this May, site specific
specialists Kilter Theatre created Passengers – taking the
audience on an unusual trip round the Station through the stories
of rail travellers across time. Caroline Garland, Kilter Director,
explains “Kilter aims to redefine theatre and make it widely
accessible and participatory. We want our audience to physically
and mentally be involved with our characters.”
Passengers certainly achieved this, with a 4* review in Venue who
described it as ‘A tantalisingly oblique journey around
history, memories, predictions and possibilities evoked by the
site”. Kilter aim to encourage more of this theatre genre,
with a series of Passenger workshops planned later in 2010.
These workshops will build on experience from other creative
education workshops we’ve hosted on the site. In July we
welcomed sixth form students from Shenley Brook End School near
Milton Keynes to the Station for part of their residential trip to
Bath. The students benefitted not only from the creative
inspiration of the building, but also the protection of the roof
from the rain! Drama Leader Fran Whittaker commented “[They]
had so much fun and the piece was fantastic!”
Bath Spa University have also made use of our Market Square,
spending a week perfecting their site specific dance piece
‘Another Way of Remembering You’ which wowed audiences
at their Friday evening finale in March. Being at hub of local life
and culture is a key feature of Green Park Station. Inspiring young
creative talent is at the heart of this – look out for more
unique performances coming this way!