As the Royal West of England Academy – Bristol’s oldest art gallery – prepares to reopen its doors after many months under re-construction, we catch up with the gallery’s director, Alison Bevan, who takes us behind-the-scenes of the most significant restoration the RWA has seen in over a century… Nine...
Some 12 years after the government dashed plans to build a 10-mile energy-generating barrage across the Severn estuary, which has the second largest tidal range in the world, the proposals are back on the agenda. Andrew Swift investigates… On the evening of 28 November 1881, when electricity was still a...
Meet the Volunteer and Member Coordinator at The Bristol Bike project, Lucia Thompson. I have to be honest, I’m not very good at settling down in a place, I’ve been here for five years. What I like most about Bristol is the variety of off-piste venues and events, and that...
From Chris Yeo, Valuer at Clevedon Salerooms and regular expert on BBC’s Antiques Roadshow They say you never get over your first love and, in my case, they were right. My first love was – and remains – the country house kitchen. Even after forty years, the very sight of...