Larkhall Community

The new Larkhall community garden is starting to take shape. The garden is located next to the nursery in Alice Park and in November, work began with volunteers from Transition Larkhall Food Group helping to weed and clear plots with other areas being covered with cardboard, to smother out the weeds and grass.

Garden Trail Whether you are intrigued by an imposing tulip tree or your gnome is seeking notoriety you may be interested in the festival’s garden trail. Discover hidden corners of Larkhall in the neighbourhood’s carefully tended gardens, or perhaps you’d like to open your own garden to visitors? Add your garden to the trail, email [...]

Photographs of Alice Park taken in 1938 clearly show a flag-pole standing close to the main gate in Gloucester Road. This was erected by Herbert MacVicar, who created the park in memory of his wife Alice, who died in 1936. It was Herbert’s wish that the anniversary of Alice’s death on November 22 be remembered [...]

I will set the scene for this profound statement. We are sat in the cafe at Alice Park and it’s pouring with rain and it’s January…not warm. We are chatting about what’s coming up this season at the park.

I am feeling quite festive and it really is no wonder, given our latest Larkhall News!

The story of how Larkhall Festival came to be and the people who made it all possible…

Anthony Mortimer of Mortimer Landscapes speaks with Paula Hawkins about his passion for all things green

Anyone passing through the bottom of Bathwick Hill recently cannot fail to have noticed the gazebo, situated on the roundabout outside St Mary’s church The large and striking wrought iron structure was designed and made by Andy Thearle and his team at Ironart of Bath right here in their workshops in Larkhall. Andy designed the [...]

Further to my original story about Alice Park and its donor, all attempts to reveal more about the backgrounds of Alice and Herbert MacVicar have failed. We do know, however, that Alice actually died on November 27, 1936, and is buried at the Church of St. John The Baptist, Batheaston.

To the Casual Observer Alice Park, Situated at the Junction of Gloucester Road (A46) and London Road (A4) in Lambridge, is Just Another Green OPen Space…  But There is Much More to it Than That and the Man Behind Its Creation Must Rank As One of Bath’s Unsung Heroes.