Translate Our very own Meeter/Greeter Martin Salter has been immortalised as a cartoon character by Perry Harris and can be seen on his Twitter site. He surely must be ‘England’s most photographed man’. I was surprised to see Martin looking at me from the wall of my local pub as someone had painted him and [...]
Translate Martin Salter, our very own meeter and greeter at the Jane Austen Centre, may be acknowledged as the ‘Most Photographed Man inEngland’, but even he was thrilled when he saw himself in the Christmas edition of the Radio Times. The photograph is being used to publicise the forthcoming television programme ‘The Many Lovers of [...]
Translate We knew it would happen. Our Meeter/Greeter Martin Salter has been recognised as England’s most photographed man. Out of the blue we recieved a request from HTV for an interview with Martin. We are always happy to oblige the press so when they arrived it was with surprise that they wanted to do a [...]
Translate Wow, what a start. Despite a bit of rain the promenaders turned out in their finery to celebrate the start of the Jane Austen Festival. Click here to go to the full story from the Bath Chronicle.
Translate Well he’s finally been recognised for what he undoubtedly is, ‘England’s Most Photographed Man’. How great that Martin Salter the cheery Meeter/Greeter at the Centre is rightly lauded for his work. Anyone else wouldn’t get anything like the attention that Martin generates by his unique personality. We are rightly proud of his achievement. Read [...]
Translate Miriam O’Reilly spent a day with the Jane Austen Festival in 2008 and the results of the filming were shown on Countryfile later in the year. The programme has since been repeated several times and it is due to Miriam’s superb reporting that attendance at the Festival has risen year on year. The picture below was [...]
Translate The Jane Austen Festival in Bath is ten years old and to celebrate this milestone we held a Regency Costumed Ball in The Guildhall on Saturday 19th June 2010 Pre-Ball Dance Workshop in the afternoon To get us in the mood we held a dance workshop in the afternoon where we ran through some of [...]
Translate The world of politics and literature came together in Bath last week in support of a tourism initiative. Bath MP Don Foster was promoting British Tourism Week (BTW) when he paid a visit to the city’s Jane Austen Centre and met one of the figureheads of the national campaign. At the Gay Street attraction [...]
Translate It’s official! The largest gathering of people dressed in Regency costumes was achieved by 409 participants, for the Jane Austen Festival in Bath, UK, on 19 September 2009 The previous record stood at 200 people and on a beautiful sunny day in September last year, 409 of us got together in Bath Assembly Rooms and broke [...]
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