Footage shot by a Bathonian shows what the city was like in the 1960s, during a time of big change in the centre.
Wally Wallace who worked in the drawing office of the Electricity Board, in what was then known as Electricity House, shot the film in about 1965.
Electricity House eventually became Churchill House, which is now the entrance to the new bus station.
From there he could see one of the new bridges going up over the River Avon in the days when there was no roundabout under the railway arches.
The old bridge was demolished, then a temporary army "bailey bridge", was installed in its place.
Churchill bridge, which is still in use today, was constructed later in the 1960s to replace the army bridge.
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