Show of Strength

Great reception @UKParliament for #EnglishTourismWeek2026 with @karinsmyth & @Steph_Peacock (I'm bottom row, 2nd from R). Voting closes Sunday for Tourism Superstar: visitenglandawards.secure-platform.com/tourismsuperst… @VisitBritainBiz @tourismsvoice

When the Bristol Hippodrome was opened in 1912, it featured a huge water tank beneath the stage. This tank could be filled with 100,000 gallons of water in order to stage naval and aquatic scenes. The tank was destroyed by a fire in the 1940s.

See today's Bristol Post @Bristol_Times supplement - an interview with our Creative Producer Sheila Hannon, celebrating 40 years of Show of Strength. showofstrength.org.uk has full info on our THEATRE WALKS in Bristol and Bath. #VisitBristol #Bristol #Theatre

The Bristol Room in the Central Library is a replica of the reading room from the old library on King Street, as it would have looked circa 1740. The grandest of its fixtures is this oak overmantel, carved by the celebrated sculptor and woodworker Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721).

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📣 TODAY 🔰  Thursday 7th May 🔰 7pm ( doors open 6:45pm ) 📖  Witchcraft, War Graves and Murder 📖 An illustrated talk by Frederick Petford, crime author 🔰   Redland Library, Bristol 🔰  Admission £3 ( pay at the door - cash only )

Somerset Square, Redcliffe was once an elegant Georgian neighbourhood but thanks to Luftwaffe bombs & 1960s town planning, all the original buildings are gone. However, this 250+ year old ornamental drinking fountain still stands as a lone reminder of the square’s grand history .

As she wrote her story in Bath, Mary Shelley's life was just as extraordinary. THE FRANKENSTEIN EXPERIENCE tells it on the streets where she lived & wrote, followed by a visit to @Frankensteinbth 3pm 3, 24, 28, 30 May See showofstrength.org.uk #gothic #strangerthings #Bath

Just wait till you see the one on our SAINTS AND SINNERS IN ST GEORGE tour showofstrength.org.uk/productions/sa…

Opened in the early 19th century, the Commercial Rooms on Corn Street was a haunt of merchants and sailors. The original weather vane above the bar still remains, which informed drinkers when the wind had changed and it would be easier to sail the Avon.

🔥🔥BOOM🔥🔥 This is the moment 100,000 people added their voice to the demand for a referendum on who owns our water. The government now has to consider it for a parliamentary debate. Please sign and share the petition. Make it impossible for them to refuse a debate: vist.ly/42eq6

We're nearly there 96,353 and counting. Do your thing internet. As for that vacuous act of futility that is govt's response? The Sewage Campaign Network has asked for a right to reply, we want to be able to write to the very same people govt did shredding their nonsense response. Sign now, sign today.

Beneath the brick platforms the Clifton Suspension Bridge towers stand upon are twelve of these vast chambers. They were discovered accidentally in 2003 during maintenance. The stalactites on the ceiling are caused by rainwater leaching minerals through the bridge above. 1/2

I need 100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry. Do your thing internet. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7626…

Step into SUNday with sun, style & Cary Grant! See Bristol through the eyes of cinema's best dressed man with our 3pm CARY COMES HOME Theatre Walk - an extraordinary story well told in the places Cary loved & returned to for the rest of his life. Info: showofstrength.org.uk/productions/ca…

Get yourselves ready for a special Alfred Hitchcock Double Bill this November at the @MegascreenBri, #Bristol! Hitch’s #SilentFilm thriller The Lodger (1927) with live music by Neil Brand + the recent restoration of masterpiece Vertigo (1958)! Tickets: #e152362" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/brist…

In 1445 (or 1446 - records are unclear), the spire of St Mary Redcliffe was destroyed by a lightning strike. The spire was not rebuilt until 1872, which is why the earliest photographs of the church show a flat “stump” instead of a steeple.

Being ignored, gaslit, humiliated and disrespected are far too common experiences for women in our health system. This Labour Government's renewed Women's Health Strategy will ensure that women are actually listened to by empowering their voices in the NHS:

In 1968 a flash flood of Colliters Brook left much of south Bristol underwater for days. Some speedy patrons of a pub in Ashton were able to rescue a barrel of cider before fleeing for safety upstairs. They were rescued the following morning - all were horribly hungover!