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on_the_fly
30-08-2004, 11:44
Anyone got places of interest around Bristol that I can take my kids have taken them to :- :)
Bristol Museum
Superbowl
Castaways
Noahs Ark
@ Bristol
PS ed can we have this as a sticky ?
Sunspots
30-08-2004, 12:07
ENTER THE WOOKEY HOLE!!! :D
Bristol Zoo
Clifton Observatory & caves
Brandon Hill and Cabot Tower
There's an exhibition of football photos on at the museum for the next couple of weeks. I keep meaning to go, that bloke takes excellent crowd/stadium shots.
Sunspots
30-08-2004, 13:25
There's an exhibition of football photos on at the museum for the next couple of weeks. I keep meaning to go, that bloke takes excellent crowd/stadium shots.
Ah, glad you know about it!
'Football In Our Time' by Stuart Clarke. I went to it a few weeks ago and 'kept forgetting to mention it.
Bloody fantastic pictures. I recognised a lot of the shots from the last time they were exhibited (-can't quite remember where though...). My favourite is still the one taken at Turf Moor on relegation day. It shows the Burnley fans on the terraces looking up to see a light aircraft towing a message from Blackburn supporters: 'Ha! Ha! Going down forever!'. So cruel, but so football.
The exhibition's been updated, up to and including a few great shots from Euro 2004.
It's on until Sunday 12th September. Go see! :cool:
There's an exhibition of football photos on at the museum for the next couple of weeks. I keep meaning to go, that bloke takes excellent crowd/stadium shots.
Shit, thanks for reminding me! We were going to see this the other week and didn't get around to it, and it slipped my mind :rolleyes:
Sunspots, are you thinking of the other one he had a few years ago? 'Football grounds of Britain' or something, IIRC. There were some great pics at that one.
butterfly child
30-08-2004, 16:51
No good making this a sticky when all this lot have gone on about is some exhibition due to close in a fortnight!
Chuh!
:rolleyes:
:p
bristle-krs
31-08-2004, 00:28
the industrial museum on the harbour is brilliant; it's free, it's open all year (not 7 days though), and you can clamber over loads of the exhibits. there's also a print shop for kids to take part in on some days, plus in the summer there's a steam train that takes you up and down the harbour at weekends :D and at the other end of the railway is the brunel buttery, perfect for great bacon butties, and a little bit further up the harbour is the cottage, for thirsty parents ;)
bristle-krs
31-08-2004, 00:29
also, don't forget the city farms: i know st. werburgh's the best - there's loads of cool animals, like the moody sow and the crazt goats, and there's a café and adventure playground, plus the farm pub too.
windmill hill and lornsweston city farms both seem nice too.
plus in the summer there's a steam train that takes you up and down the harbour at weekends :D
Driven by my uncle (or Dad's cousin's ex-husband to be more exact) :)
bristle-krs
31-08-2004, 09:45
i bet he built it too :D
the industrial museum on the harbour is brilliant; it's free, it's open all year (not 7 days though), and you can clamber over loads of the exhibits. there's also a print shop for kids to take part in on some days, plus in the summer there's a steam train that takes you up and down the harbour at weekends :D and at the other end of the railway is the brunel buttery, perfect for great bacon butties, and a little bit further up the harbour is the cottage, for thirsty parents ;)
yep, that museum is great, went there a few years ago, but let's not forget bath, bristol's fashionable neighbour :p
and how about cheddar gorge? and stourhead - great gardens
There's an exhibition of football photos on at the museum for the next couple of weeks. I keep meaning to go, that bloke takes excellent crowd/stadium shots.The one of the Kop is class, with the focus of the piece someone giving the old one-finger salute :D
bristle-krs
14-09-2004, 09:43
not really my cuppa tea, but let's not forget concorde at filton (http://www.concordeatfilton.org.uk/).
concorde 216 was the last to remain flying, and was the one that drew huge crowds to see it flying over bristol on its way to filton last november. it's now a static viewing attraction (mmm tourist info-speak!) at the airbus site at filton airfield.
cost: £12.50/£10 conc/£7 u16 - must be booked in advance.
Concorde museum currently closed (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/3686908.stm) due to a fatality.
on_the_fly
27-09-2004, 17:18
Hope to take kiddies to WESTONBIRT this weekend, its always nice up there (weather dependant), and now I got used to my new Digi camera should get some nice shots of trees lighting and kidlets !
Clifton Suspension Bridge
http://www.visitbristol.co.uk/images/guide/bridge.jpg
Fantastic views and right next to a lovely park.
SS Great Britain (http://www.ss-great-britain.com/) and the Matthew moored alongside it :cool:
Gutted to find, while looking for the link, that the Exploratory (http://www.exploratory.org.uk/) has closed :(
Clifton Suspension Bridge
http://www.visitbristol.co.uk/images/guide/bridge.jpg
Fantastic views and right next to a lovely park.
One of my best memories of visting Bristol was walking across the Clifton Suspension Bridge to Aston Court.
bristle-krs
23-11-2004, 05:49
Concorde museum currently closed (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/3686908.stm) due to a fatality.
apparently the health & safety executive are sending a file to the dpp to see if charges should be brought, and the police are to investigate...
bbc report (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/4033255.stm)
The Health and Safety Executive have been carrying out inquires to establish how Mr Lavell fell [sic]
presumably in a downward direction, and assisted by gravity :rolleyes:
. . . looks like it has opened again
http://www.concordesst.com/latestnews.html
I like the museum on the docks where the cranes are, lots of big aero engines, and the museum up top of park st is nice. That indoor greenhouse thing attatched to the imax rocks too, go check out the leaf cutter ants... ace. And kids might like that tunnel that runs down from the camera obscura on the downs to the cliff face ledge bit.
cyberfairy
04-03-2005, 20:54
Anyone got places of interest around Bristol that I can take my kids have taken them to :- :)
Bristol Museum
Superbowl
Castaways
Noahs Ark
@ Bristol
PS ed can we have this as a sticky ?
can i just mention in case you're interested that Noahs Ark is a creationist zoo. I haven't been there so don't be cross if wrong but ive heard from many people that they teach creation over evolution there so if you're opposed to biblical thought over darwin then you may be pissed off! Or go to the farm in st werberghs, a lovely city farm, next to fab city pub (the farm)which welcomes kids and has cheapish food or go to victoria park in bath which has skate ramps, huge sandpits and general kiddy fabness.
Anyone got places of interest around Bristol that I can take my kids [/B]
The station, to get a train to Cornwall? Best day out you could have :p ;)
The Lone Runner
28-03-2005, 21:08
Get this weeks venue...comes with a free days out in the bristol & bath
book!
Have been recommended...
www.piratewalks.com
come on....let's have some more :mad:
Goldney Hall & gardens in Clifton - absolutely beautiful, they have a gorgeous shell-lined grotto as well. :cool:
The gardens are open most weekends in the summer holidays (they belong to the university) but the grotto is only open on special occasions.
I can recommend the Amnesty International garden party which usually takes place in August every year, they serve tea/coffee and cakes in the orangery and the grotto is open as well.
http://www.amnestybristol.co.uk/Reports.html
See here for some pics:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Goldney/guests/images/goldneygardens.gif
Leigh Woods, especially Nightengale Valley is nice to walk round.
Also the bridleway up the river to Pill is a nice bike ride.
FruitandNut
07-10-2005, 09:46
For the cricket buffs, there is a hole in a window in the church on Frenchay Common that W.G. Grace is supposed to have made while smashing a 6.
There is also a plaque (near Bristol Zoo) commemorating a Clifton College student's world record batting score.
Arthur Edward Jeune (James) Collins (18 August 1885–11 November 1914), typically known by his initials AEJ Collins, was a British cricketer and soldier. He is most famous for achieving the highest-ever recorded score in cricket: as a 13-year-old schoolboy, he scored 628 not out over four afternoons in June 1899. Collins' record-making innings drew a large crowd and increasing media interest; spectators at the Old Cliftonian match being played nearby were drawn away to watch a junior school house cricket match.
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-dyrhampark/
dyrham park, near bath/chippenham, it's got a posh country house, which personally does nothing for me, but massive gardens, great in the summer for a picnic (and huge herds of deer)
For the cricket buffs, there is a hole in a window in the church on Frenchay Common that W.G. Grace is supposed to have made while smashing a 6.
There's also a plaque outside Easton Leisure Centre - I can't remember what it says, but in addition to being a cricketing legend, he also administered first aid to the victims of the Easton Pit Disaster in 1886.
I think he used to practice at the Old England as well.
strung_out
10-04-2006, 14:23
Blaise Castle estate is always pretty good fun. You can go for walks in the woods down to the old watermill. There's a big open space to play games, eat ice creams etc. Then there's the actual Blaise Castle which is a bit boring but the walk up there is pretty cool. Oh yeah, and there's a small museum at the Blaise house which is reasonably interesting if you're into that kind of thing.
FruitandNut
11-08-2006, 11:57
Blaise Castle estate was always a good bet on a sunny day to take the kids for a picnic. I remember many moons ago, my kid sis (now 46) running up to me and saying a "naughty man" had flashed at her from the bushes. :eek:
Has no one said Ashton Court? :eek: I love walking around there.
Further out though, you could come and see me (and all the other freaks) and soak up the cosmic vibes in Glastonbury.
I also like Stanton Drew stone circle.
Gerry1time
12-01-2007, 18:35
I found out the other day that slave trade abolitionist Thomas Clarkson did some of his important research into the trade in the seven stars next to the fleece (and firkin).
Also the church opposite the Fleece that you wouldn't normally notice cos it's always closed, is open on wednesday late lunchtime/early afternoon. Well worth going round, seems to be a perfectly preserved american/georgian (wesleyan?), can't remember the exact name, church, built inside an older (late?) medieval church with some crazy old stuff in the entrances.
Not a top location for a full day out normally, but worth checking out if you're in the area at the time.
big eejit
16-01-2007, 12:37
I don't think it's that Seven Stars, Gerry. I just posted this link in the Bristol pubs thread. It's another 7 stars behind St MAry Redcliffe:
http://www.7stars.co.uk/
Edit - No, you're right, it is that one!
greenthumb77
24-04-2008, 12:36
Personally, I do believe that the bestest place in Bristol has to be Staplton Road, full of culture...:D
geekpenguin
30-07-2008, 14:19
What about Make Your Mark up in Clifton, just a bit further up along Whiteladies Road? It's like a cafe where you can you can paint your own pottery stuff like mugs/plates etc. There isn't an actual website for it (lol, if you google it and get makeyourmark.org or whatever, it's something totally different) but it's on Venue's online directory if you search for it.
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