What lies beneath: plans to open up Bath's hidden ruins

Bath's Roman Baths are one of the West Country's most impressive sights, but what the public sees is only a part of them. Beneath the streets full of tourists, there are even more baths - buried and closed off for forty years.

While the sight on all the postcards remains the Great Bath of Aquae Sulis, there's more to this complex than meets the eye.

Under York Street, there are yet more facilities - hot baths, cold baths and steam rooms. For the first time, modern archeologists have been having a proper look.

Bath & North East Somerset Council l wants to put a new learning centre on Swallow Street, and a world heritage centre on York Street. Visitors would be able to use the excavated corridors to get to them.

The council will find out in September whether they've got all-important funding from the Heritage Lottery. They aim to finish the project by 2019 and so breathe new life to one of the West's and the nation's Roman treasures.