David Demery, Author at Bristol Civic Society

Visit to Bristol 1904 Arts: 1st February 2024

A rare chance for Civic Society members to tour the ‘Wigwam’, the meeting place of Bristol 1904 Arts.

Our initiative to secure the restoration of Ashton Court Mansion is making positive progress.

A Zoom meeting intended to provide a factual briefing about the scale and detail of the housing crisis facing many residents in Bristol.

Once again the Society is holding a Winter Social in the Watershed early in the New Year.

Visit to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Downside Road, Clifton.

On 23 November 2023 in Orchard Street, a blue plaque was dedicated to the Crimea and Indian Mutiny Veterans Association.

Gordon Young will describe the back-stories to 40 plaques, commemorating notable people and buildings where important meetings have taken place.

Gordon Young’s latest walk covers 17th-century King Street, cobbled Welsh Back and the soaring, cathedral-like St Mary Redcliffe church.

Bristol Civic Society members are invited to visit Easton Mosque, one of the oldest places of worship for Muslims across the South West.

Video of a Zoom talk on the management options for Britain’s bus services by Professor Graham Parkhurst of the University of the West of England.

We are organising two visits to the M Shed storeroom, where many maritime and industrial objects of local interest are kept.

The Civic Society has been very fortunate in being able to arrange a visit to Bristol’s own film studio, The Bottle Yard Studios.