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Few of the many visitors who throng the pavements of Gloucestershire’s picturesque towns and villages realise how close they are to sculptures which are of the highest artistic quality.
The fashion of erecting monuments, often with effigies, to significant individuals or their families, and installing them in churches, grew in England from the Middle Ages onwards. At first, only members of the aristocracy or higher clergy were commemorated, but from the C16th onwards, monuments increasingly came to represent a wider range of social classes.

Gloucestershire is particularly rich in funeral monuments of all periods. Only three counties in England exceed it in terms of density; none does in terms of artistic quality. 

Speaker John Reid discusses monuments at such places as Gloucester Cathedral, Tewkesbury Abbey and Chipping Campden which are of outstanding quality and national significance. As well as range of monuments in Bristol and its environs, not only in the cathedral but in such churches as the Lord Mayor’s Chapel, Westbury-on-Trym, St Mary, Redcliffe and Winterbourne.

Join Yvonne Cox from Hedgehog Rescue Bristol and South Gloucestershire to find out how we can all help to make our outdoor spaces hedgehog friendly, what we can do to encourage our favourite prickly garden visitors (including how to build a hedgehog house) and what to do if you find a hedgehog in distress! 

Yvonne will be using many hedgehog props and we may have a visit from a live hog if any of Yvonne's recuses are feeling well enough; appealing for adults and our younger audience alike.

By buying tickets to this talk you are helping to support both The Barn and Hedgehog Rescue Bristol and South Gloucestershire.

Most suitable for 12+

Refreshments available. Free parking on site.
Parking for this event will be at the Barn, BS36 1SE.

Did Harry Grindell Matthews really invent the world’s first mobile phone, a way of projecting images and messages into the sky, the fuel which propelled Buzz Aldrin to the moon and the forerunner of the microwave oven? Did he invent “A death ray”? Or were the claims he made false and was this the reason almost none of his inventions passed the tests of Governments and never became a commercial reality? Why is our local scientist not a household name?
What is not in doubt is that he was born in Winterbourne and died in Wales and in between he led a “colourful life” which at times seems almost unbelievable.

Join speaker Carole Darling to find out about this extraordinary local inventor.

Refreshments available. Free parking on site.
Parking for this event will be at the Barn, BS36 1SE.

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Pieces of Ham Green Ware were found on our site by Wessex Archaeology in 2017; what is the story behind them and what has St Michael got to do with all of this? 
How was Ham Green Ware traded?
What is the cultural significance behind the use of Ham Green Jugs?
How did the small Settlement of Pill become famous for pottery exports?
How was Dundry Stone used in the Bristol region, South Wales and Southern Ireland during the 12th and 13th centuries?
How was the stone moved and why?

Speaker Philip Ashford explores these questions and more in this talk on Medieval trade in Ham Green Pottery and Dundry Stone and it's cultural, economic and archaeological significance in our local area.