Old Vic Theatre School: 15th January 2024
Visit to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Downside Road, Clifton.
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Crimea and Indian Mutiny Veterans Association
On 23 November 2023 in Orchard Street, a blue plaque was dedicated to the Crimea and Indian Mutiny Veterans Association.
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Our city’s commemorative plaques: 13th December 2023
Gordon Young will describe the back-stories to 40 plaques, commemorating notable people and buildings where important meetings have taken place.
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Plaques and pedestals: 12th December 2023
Gordon Young’s latest walk covers 17th-century King Street, cobbled Welsh Back and the soaring, cathedral-like St Mary Redcliffe church.
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Visit to Easton Mosque: 5th December 2023
Bristol Civic Society members are invited to visit Easton Mosque, one of the oldest places of worship for Muslims across the South West.
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Video of the management of our bus services: 18th October 2023
Video of a Zoom talk on the management options for Britain’s bus services by Professor Graham Parkhurst of the University of the West of England.
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Visit to the M SHED stores: 21st November 2023
We are organising two visits to the M Shed storeroom, where many maritime and industrial objects of local interest are kept.
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Bottle Yard Studios: 20th November 2023
The Civic Society has been very fortunate in being able to arrange a visit to Bristol’s own film studio, The Bottle Yard Studios.
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Bristol’s Civil War walk: 4th November 2023
A guided Bristol’s Civil War walk with Pete Insole, tracing a route from Fremantle Square to Brandon Hill, looking at archaeological and surviving evidence.
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Video of: Wapping Wharf latest proposals: 13th September 2023
Video of a Zoom meeting with Umberslade, the developers of Wapping Wharf, who have recently published their proposals for another stage of the site’s regeneration.
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Video of ‘Not just the loft’: 6th September 2023
Video of a Zoom meeting presented by Jeffery Smith, who proposes a large-scale formation of clubs of owner-occupiers to achieve the mass retrofitting of insulation into homes.
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Ashton Court Mansion – Launch Event
An event to describe the Civic Society’s new initiative concerning Ashton Court Mansion and to give members an opportunity to express their views.
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