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Great reception @UKParliament for #EnglishTourismWeek2026 with @karinsmyth & @Steph_Peacock (I'm bottom row, 2nd from R).
Voting closes Sunday for Tourism Superstar:
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@VisitBritainBiz @tourismsvoice
Mar 18
Fantastic also to have our #TourismSuperstar finalists in attendance at today’s reception! Still time to cast your vote. Voting closes Sunday 22 March: brnw.ch/21wZPbs 2/2
ALT Collage of Tourism Superstar 2026 finalists at Tourism Alliance's Parliamentary event for English Tourism Week 2026.
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Features big in our Medieval Bristol tour! Next one Sunday 5 July showofstrength.org.uk
The Great Gatehouse on College Green was once the gatehouse to St Augustine’s Abbey - a precursor to Bristol Cathedral, founded in 1140.
The tower was added around 1500 but the lower section dates back to 1170 - making it among the oldest man made structures standing in Bristol.
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Jun 12
The first St Johns Church, Bedminster was built in 1003 AD, destroyed during the civil war, rebuilt in 1662, redesigned in 1855 and then destroyed in the Blitz.
The outline of the 1855 church can still be seen in the former churchyard.
The churchyard is now a park beside East St.
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☀️ The sun is out. Time to hit the streets.
Join Show of Strength's award-winning THEATRE WALKS and discover pirates, Cary Grant, Mary Shelley, crime, medieval mysteries and more - all on the streets where it happened 🎭
Tickets ➡ showofstrength.org.uk
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Discover the truth about Edward Teach's Bristol beginnings in BLOOD, BLACKBEARD & BUCCANEERS - our theatre walk on Bristol docks.
Info and tickets: showofstrength.org.uk/produc…
When the pirate Blackbeard appeared as a character in the Simpsons episode “Treehouse of Horror IV” he became the first Bristolian to be featured on the show.
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May 28
🎭Explore Bristol & Bath like never before with immersive walking tours from @Showofstrength - where local history comes alive through storytelling, theatre, and unforgettable characters!
Book tickets here: showofstrength.org.uk/
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May 24
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.
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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
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May 11
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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Polling stations are NOW OPEN in England, Scotland and Wales to elect 136 English councils, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Senedd.
Don't forget that in England you'll need to show your photo ID to vote.
Share with everyone you know to tell them to vote too
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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 )
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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 .
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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
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Just wait till you see the one on our SAINTS AND SINNERS IN ST GEORGE tour showofstrength.org.uk/produc…
This green building at the top of Blackboy Hill is a Victorian urinal (aka pissoir). At one point many such conveniences could be found across the city.
Made in the 1880s by Glasgow ironmongers Macfarlane’s it was awarded a grade II listing by English Heritage in 2014.
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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.
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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
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Apr 30
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.
Apr 29
I need 100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry.
Do your thing internet.
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Apr 29
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.
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