The Farr Family

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Our blog has grown more than we ever expected over the last two years.

It has more than a thousand pictures.

To keep things simple we have started a new-style Blog.

All New posts will be Here

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PAST POSTS OF NOTE

Chris Patton October 17th 2005

and John Major 14th October

Armed Police Raid November 19th 2005

Rare Terry Pratchett pictures April 5^th 2006

Stolen Baby July 24th 2006

Road Tax

2007-02-04T22:49:00.000Z

This is what happens when you don’t pay your road tax.

Pictures Copyright Sam Farr / The Bath Chronicle

OK I am hanging on!

2007-02-03T20:54:00.001Z

OK I am hanging on!
Union Street Bath, Today.

Pulteney Bridge

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A over the wall picture of Pulteney Bridge.

Polar Bear Fridge

2007-02-01T22:51:00.000Z

One only Polar Bear Fridge only £99, spotted in the
Homemaker shop in Grove Street tonight.

Red Dwarf

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Memorable Quotes from Red Dwarf Series 2 “Kryton”

Holly: Hope they've got some odds and sods on board; we're short of a few supplies.
Lister: [drinking tea] Like what?
Holly: Cow's milk, ran out of that yonks ago. Fresh and dehydrated.
Lister: What kind of milk are we using now?
Holly: Emergency backup supply. We're on the dog's milk.
Lister: Dog's milk!
Holly: Nothing wrong with dog's milk. Full of goodness, full of vitamins, full of marrowbone jelly. Lasts longer than any other milk, dog's milk.
Lister: Why?
Holly: No bugger'll drink it. Plus of course the advantage of dog's milk is that when it goes off, it tastes exactly the same as when it's fresh.

It’s a little known fact that Asda run a Big Issue type charity, for unemployed Pantomime dwarfs.

When all the Snow White pantomime shows come to an end in January hundreds of dwarfs are out of work.

So Asda employ then to milk the giant herds of milking daschund’s that roam the grassy plains to the North of Birmingham.

So life has followed fantasy, I spotted this dog milk in Asda Trowbridge today!

Twisted Rails

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These pictures are from about ten years ago when flooding and subsidence caused a rail embankment to collapse between Bath and Saltford.

Picture Copyright Sam Farr / The Bath Chronicle

New Photo Frame.

2007-01-29T22:13:00.000Z

Spotted in Keynsham today, is it to entertain other motorists in traffic queues!
Or maybe so the kids know which Chelsea Tractor to run too after school!

One man and his dog

2007-01-28T19:28:00.000Z

One of my favourite candid pictures from 1991 used dozens of times by the newspaper, but a sign that times have changed little for the street people.

Picture COPYRIGHT Sam Farr/The Bath Chronicle

Walcot Street Bath

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Work in Walcot Street before building the Podium, Library, Waitrose Supermarket and The Hilton Hotel.

Bath Abbey

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Bath Abbey at Dusk last Thursday

Penny for your thoughts.

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Penny for your thoughts.

Argos

2007-01-24T19:35:00.000Z

Spotted outside the Argos Bath store today, I don’t
think that it’s part of the catalogue clearance!

New Falconry Conservation Centre

2007-01-23T23:17:00.000Z

I photographed this 2-year old female falcon today at a new Falconry Conservation Centre Planned in the Bath area.
More details in Thursdays Bath Chronicle.

email from Andy in Rome

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Hi Sam and Wendy,

Thought you might like a picture of Nicky sitting on the world famous Spanish Steps in Rome.

Has been warm(ish) and bright here all day (have been looking at the weather back at home when I have been checking the weather here via the bbc site - so know it is not as nice with you).

Love to you both - Andy (and Nicky).

Wellow Trekking Centre

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Wellow Trekking Centre is run by the Shellard Family

I’ve know the family for more years than I care to Remember, here’s Frank on the beach at Porth nr Newquay doing his Mr Magoo impression.

And this is Frank with his Dad Reg.

It was great tonight to bump into Frank anf Judy with the family outside the Theatre Royal as they delivered Cinderella’s ponies.

They regularly look after pantomime ponies feeding, exercising, grooming and delivering them to the Theatre twice a day.

Baker the Jewellers

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My Snap from 2003 of Bakers the Jewellers in Southgate Street Gloucester.
Above the shop is a century old clock with. 5 striking Jacks representing England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and Old Father Time.

Poor Old Dopey

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I think the price gives away the age of this slide.

Tabitha grooming Biscuit.

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Tabitha grooming Biscuit.

Bath Theatre Royal

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These are pictures taken at a children’s show,
at Bath Theatre Royal about 5 years ago.

I don’t remember much, except the woman played
the ukulele on roller skates while doing the splits.

Then her companion arrived on a jet powered pogo stick,
which exploded much to the children’s delight.

Parking

2007-01-16T22:57:00.000Z

You can’t park there!

2002 plane crash at Box
Copyright Sam Farr / The Bath Chronicle

Philip the photographer

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Philip the photographer is the Bath Chronicle
photographic department mascot.
Wendy rescued him for us from a
Chippenham charity shop.

Bath Abbey

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Bath Abbey at dusk yesterday

Grass Cutting

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Andy warms up the mower for
the grass cutting season

Batheaston

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The river Avon from the car park in Batheaston, the river is closest to the camera.

This sign is in the gent’s toilet in the same car park,
the first ambulant sign I’ve seen.

Windy Day

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The forecast was windy, and for once they were right.
Our gas barbecue and a playhouse just blew over the wall despite being weighted down with a full 7kg gas bottle

Floods

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The heavy rain has caused flooding all over the West, and even the Cam Brook at the bottom our garden is threatening to burst its banks.
It’s luck our house is over three hundred feet away and fifty feet higher.

Happy Picture

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Onyx, Tabitha and Lottie not a very sharp picture with the little Fuji, but a happy picture

Bath Street

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Bath Street and the Spa Entrance at dusk tonight

Saltford Sewerage Works

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They say that there’s a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
But they also say where there’s muck there’s brass so it could still be right!

Lottie

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Lottie in Tabitha's riding jacket.

Combe Hay

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Combe Hay Valley from the footpath
below Fullers Earth.

Ken Russell on Big Brother

2007-01-04T22:43:00.000Z

I’m not a Big Brother fan, but I’m told 79 year old film director Ken Russell has joined the house this week.
Here are some of my snaps of Ken taken when I met him in 2004.

Pictures Copyright Sam Farr / The Bath Chronicle

Lambs

2007-01-03T21:06:00.000Z

NOT SURE IT THIS IS PRO FOXES!
OR ANTI LAMBS!

Hide and Seek

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Lottie plays Hide and Seek with the curtains.

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New Years Eve Ball

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Nicky and Andy at the New Years Eve Ball

New Years Ball

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Helen and David Ready for the New Years Ball
at the Assembly Rooms

The true cost of smoking.

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Health Promotion specialist Zoë Clifford shows the true cost of smoking.
The picture was taken in 2004 and rejected as it looked like we were burning real money.
No money was harmed during the making of this picture; it was Sam fiddling with Photoshop.
Picture copyright Sam Farr / The Bath Chronicle

Five Bikes

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Looks like a five bike one trailer family!

Bath Scum

2006-12-28T19:22:00.000Z

Someone had a Lexsor 27inch flat panel LCD TV for Christmas, and rather than wait for the refuse collectors to call.
They brought all the packaging out to the wood on Combe Hay Lane and dumped them.
Well what can you say about scum like that, a pox on your family and the next ten generations.
And I hope the new TV breaks down in the middle of your favourite programme and you can’t return it without the original box!

Small Dude

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Spotted in Sainsburys car park.

Xmas day at the Higby House.

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Xmas day at the Higby House.

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Tabitha's Postman Pat outfit.

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Tabitha just wants to pull crakers.

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Lotties happy to watch the Tweenies and make Andy do the actions.

Terry Pratchett at Christmas

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Another of my unpublished picture of Terry Pratchett, taken at a Christmas party for former C.E.G.B. employees a few years ago.
He's looking at someone's digital camera in the days when they cost more than three years fees at the Unseen University.

Ghost of Christmas past

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Silver Ghost of Christmas past, photographed tonight on Bear Flat.

Terry Pratchett

2006-12-23T23:59:00.000Z

Another of my unpublished Terry Pratchett Pictures, a few years ago we had an appeal to help fund a new children’s ward at the RUH.

The symbol was a teddy bear, so all the photographers carried a bear and stuck it in the hands of any famous people we photographed, mine met Jensen Button and Charles Kennedy.
When I was visiting Terry I thought, they don’t come much more famous than him, so snapped him with the bear wearing his famous hat.
No it’s not glued there his assistant Rob I behind him holding it, well the following year they decided not to publish more bear pictures, even though we had carried on taking them.
So this picture never saw the light of day.

For more of my unpublished pictures of Terry See Below

Hyde Park Corner

2006-12-22T18:28:00.000Z

Well I suppose it’s useful information for someone!
Marshfield High Street

Swans

2006-12-21T23:15:00.000Z

Feeding the swans misty Wednesday in Chippenham.

Footpaths

2006-12-20T22:41:00.000Z

We seem to be on a doggie theme at the moment, this lady is a footpaths officer in Wiltshire.
Part of her job is to measure the width of footpaths so she has trained her dog to hold the end of the tape-measure.
Picture Copyright Sam Farr / The Bath Chronicle

Happy ending for Bonnie

2006-12-19T22:13:00.000Z

I was just taking my kit out of the car at nine forty-five tonight, when a cold, hungry and muddy dog walked into the house.
I called the number on her collar to find a tearful but happy owner, Bonnie went missing in Southstoke a 4 o’clock today.
And they were worried that something had happened to the 14-year old family pet.
She was collected in less than 15 minutes.

Winter Walk

2006-12-18T21:28:00.000Z

Nicky out walking Paddy and Storm on Saturday.
Storm is poorly at the moment and went to the Veterinary Hospital today; she has had stay for a few days.

One Man and His Dog

2006-12-17T23:22:00.000Z

I achieved a lifetime ambition tonight, appearing in the finals of the BBC's One Man and His Dog.
Unfortunately because I don't have a dog or any sheep and can't whistle it was just my left ear that appeared.
I was there to photograph a visit by Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, with presenters Ben Fogle and Shauna Lowry./
Picture Copyright BBC/ Sam Farr/ The Bath Chronicle

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Ronnie O'Sullivan

2006-12-16T18:22:00.000Z

Ronnie O'Sullivan has been in the news lately after walking out on Steven Hendry in the UK Championship quarter-final.
Here's one my snaps of him at his demonstration at Keynsham Snooker Club on the 17th November.
He's just borrowed my Swiss Army knife to cut the kitchen film and sticky tape that covers his cue tip in transit.

COPYRIGHT SAM FARR/THE BATH CHRONICLE

Armed Police Raid

2006-12-15T18:48:00.000Z

Armed police sealed off a Bath hill today to raid a house.
More at the Bath Chronicle web site, or Saturdays Bath Chronicle.

COPYRIGHT SAM FARR/THE BATH CHRONICLE

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Christmas Contest

2006-12-14T21:24:00.000Z

Competition for the interdepartmental Christmas decoration contest is tight.
In the photographic department Clare made this model of our Christmas dinner using dishcloths, clay and cardboard.
The bottles were the only thing she bought; I’m on the right and see Becky is so pregnant she doesn’t fit under the table.

My contribution was to borrow this 5 foot high working snowstorm from Mike and Wendy at Funtastic.

Old Lumpy

2006-12-13T21:20:00.000Z

Most people have had a friendly name for a favourite car.
But I’m not sure about this one!

In Control

2006-12-12T21:28:00.000Z

Personalised control knob on an electric wheelchair
spotted at Sainsburys.
If you see him coming you’d better move!

Midland Bridge

2006-12-11T20:07:00.000Z

Tonight’s rush-hour sunset over the Midland Bridge Bath.

Waiting to Bat!

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Waiting to Bat!

Teddy Bears

2006-12-09T23:08:00.000Z

Teddy Bears picnic jumper spotted in Westgate Street, it came from Australia.

Nativity Play

2006-12-08T23:09:00.000Z

A serious looking Tabitha at the Paragon School Nativity today!

St Swithins

2006-12-07T23:34:00.000Z

Walcot Street from St Swithin’s Church on the Paragon.

Sparrows Crane

2006-12-06T20:03:00.000Z

Some time ago I went to Berkeley Nuclear Power Station to photograph the largest mobile crane in the UK.
It took me a while to persuade them to take the front off for a crane driver's eye view.

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Planet Bath

2006-12-05T20:31:00.000Z

I'm still messing about with Polar Coordinates,
this is planet Bath.

Winter Sunshine.

2006-12-04T20:24:00.000Z

Winter sunshine casts long shadows in Newark Street Bath.

Bath City Council

2006-12-03T21:35:00.000Z

It's a spot Sam contest?
The very last Bath City Council just before Avon took over.

Yes I'm first on the left second row back

Just waiting!

2006-12-02T21:03:00.000Z

Just waiting!

New Planet

2006-12-01T21:58:00.000Z

I’m still messing about with Polar Coordinates,
this is planet Sports Centre and Pavilion.

International Space Station

2006-11-30T11:18:00.000Z

Work carries on at the International Space Station, all right it’s a lie, it’s the picture of Moonrise over Bath Gasworks that I put on the blog 5 days ago run through a Distort Polar Coordinates Filter.

If you would like to try it the instructions are here.

Little Known Corners around Bath

2006-11-29T21:06:00.000Z

Monkton Combe lock-up was erected in the early to mid 18th century and until about 1895/1900 there were stocks outside.
The building is approx. 8ft square with a domed roof and built of Bath stone. It is fitted with an iron studded oak door and is unusual as it contains two cells.
I have been a dozen times to photograph this lock up, but it always has a car parked outside, so this is two frames joined and the car cloned out.

Little Known Corners of Bath

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This is the student accommodation in Raby Mews behind Bathwick St Mary Church in Bath.
You will note the SWGB carved across the front, because this was the billing centre in the 70s producing gas bills for the whole South-West of England.
In those days it was filled with staff producing the punch cards to feed the computers.

Baby Helen

2006-11-27T22:13:00.000Z

Sam and a newborn Helen almost 30 years ago
at St Martins Hospital.

Little known crescents of Bath

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One of the little known crescents of Bath,

it's Day Crescent Twerton.

Moon rise over Bath gas works

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Moon rise over Bath Gas Works

Hardly Moonrise over Hernandez by Ansel Adams
which sold for $609,600 last month

Bath Crescent

2006-11-24T21:11:00.000Z

One of the little known crescents of Bath,
it's Bloomfield Crescent.

The good old 70s

2006-11-23T23:33:00.000Z

An old slide of Wendy, I think by the look of the hat and flares it must be the 70s.

Chow Dog

2006-11-22T20:47:00.000Z

I spotted these two magnificent Chow dogs at green park station.
The Chow is a member of the spitz family and has been native to China for more than 2000 years

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All Blacks

2006-11-21T21:42:00.000Z

Here's a snap of me looking like I was hanging around with dozens of journalists from around the world for an hour and a half for a 3-minute photo call with the All Blacks.
The woman in pink is Melody Robinson former loose forward for the World Champion Black Ferns, now a TV presenter.
She spent ten minutes trying to explaining the technical differences between the men’s and women’s Haka to me?

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Pictures Copyright The Bath Chronicle and BBC Points West

Autumn Ride

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Helen, Tabitha and Biscuit walking in the Avenue yesterday.

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Frosty

2006-11-19T08:30:00.000Z

This morning's frosty sunrise over our orchard.

The Eden Project

2006-11-18T21:39:00.000Z

The Eden Project, a four frame join up with Panorama Plus 2.