Category: Events

This afternoon (8th June 2020) we are proposing a virtual matinee (or record and watch later). The movie 1962 “Some People” is on the Talking Pictures TV channel at 3.10pm – Sky 328 Freeview 81 Freesat 306 Virgin 445.

The film was shot in Bristol and is a great reminder of the sights, sounds and attitudes of 1960’s Britain.  It includes a motorcycle chase along the Portway past the now demolished pre-fabs in Hadrian Close, scenes in the City Centre and in the north of Bristol around Lockleaze and Filton.

Starring Kenneth More, Ray Brooks, Anneke Wills , David Andrews, Angela Douglas & David Hemmings , the film was funded by the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and also features a local band called The Eagles.

Why not tweet along and tag @seamills100

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivXpgnh44_A

More information about the film
https://eastmancolor.info/2018/04/05/when-the-new-wave-came-to-bristol-some-people-1962/
https://www.reelstreets.com/films/some-people/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_People_(film)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056509/

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If you have missed our matinee the movie is available

on DVD or Blue-ray

or to stream online (rent or buy)

Get nature spotting in your garden or on your walk

This is the day that we were planning to gather people together to survey wildlife in Sea Mills. We are really sad to not be able to do this – but it’s still possible to do it online. This is the last day for it to be included on the map being logged by Bristol’s Festival of Nature. Let’s see if we can fill up that map a bit more with sightings in Sea Mills and Coombe Dingle by the end of the day – we are a garden suburb after all and this is something you can do in your own garden of on your daily walk.

As you can see the Trym valley is doing quite well at the moment but other areas are a bit empty! Here’s how you add to it. Download the iNaturalist app for your smart phone and use it to log animals, insects, birds and wild plants that you observe. You can use it any time, but anything you log today in Bristol or Bath will be added to the nature challenge map. So get spotting!

Hears an update just as it was getting dark. I think we did ok! Carry on spotting with the app and next year we can really go for it.