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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.
Venue formerly known as Colston Hall has undergone a ‘total overhaul’ of its performance spaces Historic venue the Bristol Beacon reopens after five-year refurb with ‘renewed sense of purpose’
That was a 25% increase on the year before the works started in 2018, when it was known as Colston Hall. Simon Wales, the venue's chief executive, said at a first anniversary event on Sunday that ...
Bristol Choral Society was founded in 1889 by George Riseley, then organist of Bristol Cathedral.Its first performance was at the Colston Hall on 7 May 1890 – Mendelssohn's St. Paul with a choir exceeding 500 singers – and it has been performing principally at the Colston Hall ever since.
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The statue of Edward Colston is a bronze statue of Bristol-born merchant and trans-Atlantic slave trader Edward Colston (1636–1721). It was created in 1895 by the Irish sculptor John Cassidy and was formerly situated on a plinth of Portland stone in a public space known as The Centre in Bristol, until it was toppled by anti-racism protestors in 2020.
Colston Street: 1923: 300: theatre: turned into a bar for the Colston Hall in 1980; has since been re-purposed as a music venue (the Lantern). [28] New Vic: King Street: 1972: 150: theatre, comedy: studio theatre of the Bristol Old Vic; [29] closed and demolished 2016 to make way for a new foyer building [30] Park Street Music Hall: Park Street ...
Peggy Ann Wood (14 June 1912 – 30 May 1998) was a British actress, director and theatre manager associated heavily with the Bristol Old Vic.In partnership with her husband, Ronald Russell (1910–1994), she ran the repertory company the Rapier Players, based in Bristol's Colston Hall. [1]