David Demery

Local historian Rob Pritchard talks about the changing fortunes of the city’s docks since the opening of the Floating Harbour in 1809.

We have been invited by YTL to take a party of members to visit this major mixed use development, on the site of the old airport.

In this talk, Richard Stride will reveal the wide extent of his family’s building work, beyond the houses in Sneyd Park and Stoke Bishop.

Mark Barry, Professor of Practice in Connectivity at Cardiff University, explains lessons Bristol can learn from Cardiff’s new trams and light rail.

A Zoom talk by photographer David Griffiths on the visual impact of the postwar reconstruction of the city.

Join us on a visit to one of the UK’s oldest synagogues and learn about the Jewish faith.

Kay Ross, the Chair of Avon Gardens Trust, will be giving a Zoom talk with illustrations which will provide information on the work of the Trust.

A visit to Glenside Hospital, on Blackberry Hill, which has for 40 years been a museum of national importance.

A visit to the Pervasive Media Studio, an initiative supported by The Watershed, UWE and Bristol University.

Again this year we are holding our summer social event at the Clifton Observatory.