Show of Strength

5⭐ walks in 5⭐ places
Bristol & Bath
Blackbeard; Bedminster;
Cary Grant; Clifton;
Frankenstein in Bath
Private tours available
Best of Bristol: Bristol24/7

[Show of Strength @Showofstrength]

Great reception @UKParliament for #EnglishTourismWeek2026 with @karinsmyth & @Steph_Peacock (I'm bottom row, 2nd from R).
Voting closes Sunday for Tourism Superstar:
https://t.co/gmqHfHBzF1
@VisitBritainBiz @tourismsvoice

[VisitEnglandBiz @VisitEnglandBiz]

Fantastic also to have our #TourismSuperstar finalists in attendance at today’s reception! Still time to cast your vote. Voting closes Sunday 22 March: https://t.co/igEuZXdeqJ 2/2

[Weird Bristol @WeirdBristol]

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.

[Show of Strength @Showofstrength]

See today's Bristol Post @Bristol_Times supplement - an interview with our Creative Producer Sheila Hannon, celebrating 40 years of Show of Strength.

https://t.co/JpaTIYt3VE has full info on our THEATRE WALKS in Bristol and Bath.

#VisitBristol #Bristol #Theatre

[Weird Bristol @WeirdBristol]

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).

[Equity @EquityUK]

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

[Redland Library Events @RedlandLibEvent]

📣 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 )

[Weird Bristol @WeirdBristol]

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 .

[Show of Strength @Showofstrength]

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 https://t.co/6AWgM8rVlG
#gothic #strangerthings #Bath

[Show of Strength @Showofstrength]

Just wait till you see the one on our SAINTS AND SINNERS IN ST GEORGE tour https://t.co/kGrX556nUD

[Weird Bristol @WeirdBristol]

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.

[Show of Strength @Showofstrength]

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 https://t.co/6AWgM8rVlG
#gothic #strangerthings #Bath

[Weird Bristol @WeirdBristol]

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.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

🔥🔥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: https://t.co/EDl41I9Uqo

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

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.

[Weird Bristol @WeirdBristol]

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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[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I need 100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry.

Do your thing internet.

https://t.co/kZz1cXBtz3

[Show of Strength @Showofstrength]

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: https://t.co/Ra80TbvA7M

[Show of Strength @Showofstrength]

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: https://t.co/Ra80TbvA7M

[South West Silents @SWSilents]

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: https://t.co/MK2vzynoMF

[Weird Bristol @WeirdBristol]

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.

[Karin Smyth @karinsmyth]

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:

[Weird Bristol @WeirdBristol]

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!