The 2020 Annual General Meeting of the Bristol Civic Society will be held online on Tuesday 8th September at 19.00, using Zoom. All members are welcome to participate if they wish.
Annual General Meeting: 8th September 2020 Read More »
A walk looking at architectural sculpture and some fine commemorative statues, a superb fountain and some exceptional contemporary commissions.
Public Sculpture Guided Walk: 3rd September 2020 Read More »
A walk around Cumberland Basin and locks guided by Ed Hall. The event will feature a description of the area and its historic layout.
Cumberland Basin and Locks walk: 19th and 26th August 2020 Read More »
Vice & Virtue: Discovering the story of Old Market – a talk by Mike Manson, editor of Better Bristol and well known local author.
The story of Old Market: 26th March 2019 Read More »
We have an ‘event of two halves’ on Thursday 27th February at the Friends’ Meeting House, Redland: blue plaques and Bristol documentaries.
Façades and Films: 27th February 2020 Read More »
We have arranged a visit to the St Philips premises of this company, which creates and manufactures models and simulators for doctors’ and nurses’ hands-on skills training- delivering babies, taking blood, key hole surgery, suturing and more.
Limbs & Things: 13th February 2020 – SOLD OUT Read More »
Following our tradition of New Year social evenings, we are holding an event in January in the Watershed.
Annual Social Evening: 22nd January 2020 Read More »
There is a current planning application for permission to develop an Arena in the Brabazon hangars at Filton. The Civic Society arranged a visit to the former airfield and to the hangars quite recently but this trip is focused solely on plans for the Arena.
Visit to Brabazon Hangar: 17th January 2020 – SOLD OUT Read More »
The guided walk led by local landscape architect, Wendy Tippett along a pedestrian route around Cumberland Basin.
Cumberland Basin walk: 5th January 2020 – SOLD OUT Read More »
On Wednesday, 20 November 2019 the Right Honourable Lord Mayor, Councillor Jos Clark unveiled a blue plaque at Badminton School to celebrate the writer and philosopher Dame Iris Murdoch.
The proposed University of Bristol new library will be located on the site of the current Hawthorns building. The Society continues to support a development of a library on this site but regrets that it cannot support this proposal.
University of Bristol Library: October 2019 update Read More »
The report on an event organised jointly by Bristol Civic Society and University of the West of England as part of Festival of Future City.
Building Liveable Neighbourhoods in Bristol Read More »
