Ashton Court visit, Wed 28 September 2016
A chance to view the Lower Lodge, Ashton Court, which is currently being refurbished.
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2016
Gordon Welchman
On 26th September 2016, a Bristol Civic Society Blue Plaque to honour a World War II codebreaker was placed on St Mary’s Church, Fishponds.
The Quays
The Society supports the development of this site to build 20 serviced apartments. The Society opposed the first design, which would overdevelop the site and be significantly taller than an expired permission.
2-16 Clifton Down Road
THAT Clifton Company Limited has proposed to demolish and redevelop the current building to create mixed commercial accommodation over 3 floors.
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Ffestiniog Railway
A blue plaque has been unveiled to commemorate a meeting held in Clifton which resulted in the revival of the Ffestiniog Railway in North Wales. It also led ultimately to the formation of the Ffestiniog Railway Society. On 8th September 2016 around 30 supporters of the railway and others gathered at St Mary’s House, Tyndalls
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‘Shared use’ routes
Bristol Council is consulting on a draft policy on ‘shared use’ routes for people walking and on bicycles. The Society welcomes the council’s initiative to create this draft policy
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Terry Waters
A blue plaque honouring a Korean war hero was unveiled on 28th June 2016 at 29 Stoke Grove, Westbury-on-Trym, the childhood home of Terry Waters. A young lieutenant in the West Yorkshire Regiment, attached to the Gloucestershire regiment, Terry Waters was captured after the Battle of the Imjin River in April 1951. He was seriously
Clifton and Durdham Downs, Thurs 7 July 2016
Richard Bland leads a summer evening walk and talk covering interesting aspects of the history of the Downs and its role today.
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Castle Park – west end
The Society’s suggestions about the development of land between High Street and St Mary-le-Port Church, which includes the dilapidated Lloyds Bank, Bank of England and Norwich Union buildings.
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Bristol Schemes of Sylvia Crowe, Tues 21 June 2016
Led by Wendy Tippett, this walk covers landscape associated with the Cumberland Basin Bridges and Ashton Gate Junction road scheme.
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Assembly
The Society supports the developer’s objectives, which are to improve connectivity to both Temple Quays and Cabot Circus with a high quality, cost and energy effective sustainable design.
Frederick Charles Frank
A blue plaque was unveiled on Tuesday 17th May 2016 to honour a distinguished physicist. Sir Frederick Charles Frank was born in South Africa, spent his childhood in Suffolk, studied chemistry at Oxford then worked as a research physicist in Berlin.
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