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Bristol Beacon, previously Colston Hall, is a concert hall and Grade II listed building on Colston Street, Bristol, England. It is owned by Bristol City Council. Since 2011, it has been managed by Bristol Music Trust. The hall opened as a concert venue in 1867, and became a popular place for classical music and theatre.
Bristol and West of England Amateur Photographic Association formed. [31] Industrial Exhibition held. [5] Daily Bristol Times and Mirror newspaper in publication. [16] 1867 – Bristol Beacon concert hall opens as Colston Hall. [2] 1870 – Gloucestershire County Cricket Club formed. 1871 – Bristol Museum and Library established. [32]
The aircraft was a Vickers Vanguard 952, registered as G-AXOP, and was chartered by a tour company based in Britain. Flight 435 took off from Bristol (Lulsgate) Airport, Lulsgate Bottom, North Somerset, United Kingdom for EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg International Airport in Saint-Louis, France.
On 21 December 1892, Bristol Choral Society gave its first performance of Handel's Messiah at the Colston Hall. It proved so popular, regularly attracting sell-out audiences, that it has been performed regularly ever since just before Christmas. 2012 marked the 120th anniversary of the choir's Messiah at Colston Hall with Messiah once again performed on the Saturday before Christmas – 120 ...
Beacon Tower, formerly Colston Tower, is a high-rise building located on Colston Avenue, in the centre of Bristol, England. The building was designed in 1961, but not completed until 1973. It rises 63 metres (207 ft) and has 15 floors of offices.
I like File:Colston concert hall - new entrance and foyer - Bristol (geograph 2230467).jpg; I guess I'm a bit twitchy about the lead image not showing the traditional stone-arched archtecture frontage. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 18:42, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
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 ...
Bijan Ebrahimi (Persian: بیژن ابراهیمی; c. 1969 – 14 July 2013) was an Iranian refugee living in Bristol, United Kingdom. [1] For seven years, the 44-year old disabled man had reported death threats and racial abuse from his neighbours. [2] On 14 July 2013, Ebrahimi was murdered by his neighbour, Lee James. [3]