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5⭐ walks in 5⭐ places Bristol & Bath Blackbeard; Bedminster; Cary Grant; Clifton; Frankenstein in Bath Private tours available Best of Bristol: Bristol24/7
Bristol and Bath
Joined April 2011
Hot off the press! Check out Bristol Post's feature today about our THEATRE WALKS on the streets of Bristol and Bath - some dates SOLD OUT. See https://t.co/JpaTIYt3VE for more info. Proper history and amazing stories on your doorstep! Thanks @TristanCorkPost - great article
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More great stuff from @WeirdBristol. We retrace Cary's Bristol beginnings in RAISING CARY GRANT: THE BRISTOL FOOTSTEPS OF ARCHIE LEACH - our fab Theatre Walk around the centre of the city. Sat 29th November at 2pm 🎟️ https://t.co/eN1xoYvrCm In association with @carycomeshome
Bristol-born Hollywood megastar Cary Grant (then Archibald Leach) left for America at 16 but returned to the city many times until his 70s. As a child he was told his mother had died, when in fact she had been sectioned in Glenside Hospital - then a mental institute. 1/2
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Who loves Art Nouveau? 😍 This building in Bristol was built as a printing works between 1900 and 1901 for the printer Edward Everard. The main building was demolished around 1970, leaving only the facade. It's the largest decorative facade of its kind in England.
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More great stuff from @WeirdBristol. We retrace Cary's Bristol beginnings in RAISING CARY GRANT: THE BRISTOL FOOTSTEPS OF ARCHIE LEACH - our fab Theatre Walk around the centre of the city. Sat 29th November at 2pm 🎟️ https://t.co/eN1xoYvrCm In association with @carycomeshome
Bristol-born Hollywood megastar Cary Grant (then Archibald Leach) left for America at 16 but returned to the city many times until his 70s. As a child he was told his mother had died, when in fact she had been sectioned in Glenside Hospital - then a mental institute. 1/2
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Fantastic stuff from @weirdbristol - and we'll be on that very spot outside M Shed this Saturday and Sunday, recreating the 1950s for the BRISTOL DOCKS HERITAGE WEEKEND. Info:
In the delightful 2018 British film “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” Bristol was cast to play the role of Weymouth. Even some of the harbourside railway carriages managed to make a cameos in a few shots.
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Fantastic stuff from @weirdbristol - and we'll be on that very spot outside M Shed this Saturday and Sunday, recreating the 1950s for the BRISTOL DOCKS HERITAGE WEEKEND. Info:
In the delightful 2018 British film “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” Bristol was cast to play the role of Weymouth. Even some of the harbourside railway carriages managed to make a cameos in a few shots.
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A FEW FREE TICKETS: Saturday 13th is Clifton Village Day with our CRIME AND CRINOLINES IN CLIFTON tour at 4pm. Lovely Clifton BID folk are offering them free of charge. All you have to do is book & when they're gone they're... https://t.co/Bv46F8OGYy
@WeirdBristol @andrewtlynch
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The final episode of The Newcomers (1964) the series that helped launch BBC2, is a day in the life of Bristol from student exams to births, deaths and marriages; retirement from the Bristol Aeroplane Company to the payment of a day’s tobacco duty: https://t.co/DJkNcLo36g
southwestsilents.com
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In 1835, Anglican priest John Ashley grew concerned that the residents of Flat Holm and seafarers anchored in the Bristol Channel he no way of attending church on Sundays. He helped fund the “Eirene” - a floating chapel which began conducting church services in 1839. 1/2
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Lovely piece on our THEATRE WALKS in Bristol, Bath and Keynsham from Sarski Anderson / Bristol 24/7 https://t.co/619JWQiN69
bristol247.com
Themes range from Blackbeard and butchery to walking in the footsteps of Cary Grant
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And then there's The Bristol Hum: https://t.co/Qrirj30sd0
bbc.co.uk
Bristol residents have been plagued with a mysterious low-level sound that no-one can trace.
The Hum was more than a sound. It was the electric ley of the land manifesting. We walked underneath its lines and were transformed. Outsiders called us trespassers, filthy hippies, mad marchers. We just called ourselves Children of The Hum. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH
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So today was supposed to be the English in-club surfing contest at Porthtowan in Cornwall except it isn't thanks once again to the greed, financial engineering and incompetence of the water industry. Sewage dump, lifeguards order competitors out of the water. Lots of very angry
English inter-club contest has been called off because of a sewage dump. lifeguards called everyone out of the water
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Sun 14th, Arbenz & Sheppard; 'Turns out, Bach & Ellington don't sound so far apart after all. - https://t.co/vAUrLPWYjq “They do not merely play; Theirs is a dialogue of trust, risk & refinement, for those willing to follow it offers an experience that lingers long” ‘Paris-Move’
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Confined to barracks by the storm? Settle down with THE GHOST TRAIN on @TalkingPicsTV at 2.35 Arnold Ridley's smash hit play was written after he was stranded overnight at Mangotsfield station nr Bristol (now a ghost station thanks to Beeching). @WeirdBristol
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Confined to barracks by the storm? Settle down with THE GHOST TRAIN on @TalkingPicsTV at 2.35 Arnold Ridley's smash hit play was written after he was stranded overnight at Mangotsfield station nr Bristol (now a ghost station thanks to Beeching). @WeirdBristol
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On the 2nd of January, 1897, Mabel Price travelled to Avonmouth by train with her older brother William. That evening, only William returned home… Read the shocking full story in WEIRD BRISTOL: TRUE CRIME. Available now. Link in profile.
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Just 2 tickets left for the whole run (16 October) so there's an extra Halloween one Thursday 30 October
BLOOD AND BUTCHERY IN BEDMINSTER is back! An impostor princess, the Brinks Mat robbery, the Bedminster bridge murder, a concrete corpse & more. Just a few tickets for Sep/Oct, snap 'em up : https://t.co/g96s7H13Jv 'As good as the best London walks' @char1iewatts @richkbristol
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"Alarming microplastic pollution found in Hampshire’s chalk streams – with global implications." And how do we think microplastics get into our chalk streams, yet, you got it, sewage. https://t.co/KtzePviuQc
envirotech-online.com
Chalk streams—globally rare and long celebrated for their crystal-clear waters—are facing a new and urgent threat: microplastic pollution. A pioneering study by the University of Brighton and l...
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Great Story Well Done @BristolCouncil @TonyDDyer
Dozens of cultural treasures that have been in Bristol Museum's collection for more than a century have been officially handed back to the community from which they were taken
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My book WEIRD BRISTOL: TRUE CRIME is available now! Featuring 100 tales of Bristol’s criminal past, including the story of the skeleton found at Kingsweston Roman Villa - possibly Bristol’s first ever murder mystery… Link in my profile.
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