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The Bristol Historical & Preservation Society is holding its House Tour 2024 on Saturday, Sept. 21, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tour 12 private houses in historic Bristol, spanning 300 years of ...
The University of Bristol Drama Department offers undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in performance and screen studies. [17] The University of the West of England offers undergraduate and post-graduate drama and film programmes. [18] Circomedia is a training school for circus and physical theatre skills offering foundation degrees and BTEC ...
It includes two pitch-and-putt golf courses, a disc golf course, an orienteering course and horse riding and mountain bike trails. [44] Bristol's weekly parkrun event (a free, timed 5 km run organised by volunteers) is held at Ashton Court. [45] There is a deer park which was started in the 14th century and extended in the 16th and 17th ...
Bristol is the second largest city in Southern England, after the capital London. Iron Age hillforts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon. Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373 when it became a county corporate. From the 13th ...
The estate was sold to Bristol City Council in 1926, to preserve it from development. [20] During World War II the house was occupied by the armed forces. [9] A branch of the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery since 1949, Blaise Castle House now features collections relating to household items in addition to its period interior decoration. [20]
Goldney Hall The canal and Gothic tower. A folly, the tower is an extravagant example of an engine house for a water well pump, supplying the canal, fountain and grotto.. The Goldney family's influence in Bristol can be traced to 1637, when Thomas Goldney was sent by his father to Bristol from Chippenham in Wiltshire, to serve as an apprentice for seven years.
The Red Lodge was originally built at the top of the gardens of "ye Great House of St. Augustine's Back". [4] The Great House was built in 1568 [5] on the site of an old Carmelite Priory, later still the site of Bristol Beacon (formerly named Colston Hall), [4] [6] by Sir John Young/Yonge, the descendant of a merchant family and courtier to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.
The Bristol Troubadour Club was a short lived but influential club in the thriving contemporary folk music scene in Bristol in the late 1960s and early 1970s, It was located in Clifton village, the student quarter above the city centre. The club was considered by some as the liveliest and most creative outside London.