Julia writes 'Boring Bath'
Drilcorp were part of the project to create a new borehole in Bath earlier this year. Supposedly for the benefit of the elitist Gainsborough Hotel, which still does not in the slightest resemble a hotel. There were several different conflicting official stories accompanying this borehole (See Stories of the New Borehole), and it was supposedly completed around the end of February 2012.
I can’t find any information on the latest round of drilling. Surely the citizens of Bath should be better informed about all this tampering with the Hot Springs? Possibly even the citizens of the World? It is a World Heritage Site with world famous Hot Springs.
Who are Drilcorp? The Drilcorp website announces that they do “geothermal climate control”, which is not very reassuring. It sounds like they are using earth energy to control the climate, and that may be exactly what they are doing. There are some interesting phrases they use about how they got the water they wanted during the first project.
Firstly, they claim to “safeguard the Thermae Bath Spa facility”. They are not claiming to safeguard the natural water supply to the facility, just the facility itself. Though the hotel “will be the only hotel in the UK to use natural thermal water”. So maybe the Thermae Bath Spa no longer has natural thermal water? And that might be why it needs a man made boiler to heat up the water, rather than a cooler to cool it down (See Hot Springs Go Cold).
Secondly, they talk about the “desired target water”. The hot Artesian water was the wrong type. So I wonder what is really going on down there. What are they trying to tap into, and why did they have to go deeper than expected?
Thirdly, Councillor David Dixon is quoted on the borehole drilling: “has been a hugely successful operation and the source we have tapped into shows signs of everything we could hope for”. This could be read in several different ways. What source did they tap into? And what could they have hoped for?
Fourthly, they quote the water as flowing out at 49 degrees. It is only 47 degrees at the Roman Baths source, and previous statements on the New Borehole started at 48 degrees, then revised downwards to 47 degrees. This temperature disparity is getting stranger, and I am thinking that either the Cross Bath is actually the hottest point, not the Roman Baths temple after all. Or that they have a man made boiler down there underground because there is no longer enough natural heat.
I can’t help noticing the 18th century stonemasonry carving on the Gainsborough Hotel-to-be in neighbouring Beau St. The City of Bath Coat of Arms is flanked by a lion and a bear. The sword blade rises upwards like an obelisk, and the hilt of the sword has diagonal markings like a screw, which makes it look like a drill boring down into the Earth. Has this been going on for centuries, this tampering?
The architects for The Gainsborough Hotel are EPR. They have worked on The Palace of Westminster and The House of Lords! So they are accustomed to the buildings of the elite.
A quote from their website about the Gainsborough is “provision is being made for conference facilities at the upper most level”, which I take to mean the most elitist people in the world.
And just to add the icing onto the cake of the story, the whole very expensive Hotel project is funded by a loan from the Royal Bank of Scotland! The ones that are heavily in debt to the taxpayer. Shouldn’t they be paying us back first before lending money to the Very Rich?
(See also earlier posts: Hot Springs Go Cold, Stories of the New Borehole, the New Bath Waitrose Store)
http://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Venues/YTL-Hotels-receives-funding-to-open-five-star-Gainsborough-Hotel-Spa-in-Bath
http://www.epr.co.uk/projects/architects-period-building/gainsborough-hotel-spa-bath/
http://www.drilcorp.com/news/99-new-geothermal-water-borehole-for-bath-city
Julia's daily ramble adds -
From the Bath Freemasons website....
"We are also home to the Royal Cumberland, Royal Sussex and St Luke's Royal Arch Chapters; the Royal Cumberland and Royal Sussex Mark Masons; the Bath Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners; the St Peter & St Paul and the Antiquity Chapters Rose Croix; the Antiquity Encampment and Bladud Preceptory Knights Templar; the Antiquity and Bladud Priory of Knights Hospitaller; the King Edgar Tabernacle Knight Templar Priests; the Commemorative Order of the Knight of Acon; the Wessex Council of Royal and Select Masters and the Allied Masonic Degree of the Frederick Lace Council". This Knights business still seems very active, not the stuff of history and legends at all.
Jerusalem is definitely in England...
In 1888, the Order of St John, which has had several renames and mergers over the centuries, became Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England ! St Johns seem to do a lot with Eye Hospitals, which is slightly worrying. The real agenda is no doubt something to do with the All Seeing Eye, since the real purpose is always carefully hidden in plain view. The Grand Priory was restored very recently in 1993. It also seems to be the same as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in the UK. And was previously known as the Knights Hospitaller. So Knights Hospitaller, St Johns, and Malta all closely linked, or possibly the same. And I would say they are VERY powerful and active in Bath.