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Autumn update The jubilee exhibition which we mounted for the summer will be taken down over the first weekend of September, so there is just time to fit-in a visit – and/or send us a personal memory of 1952-53. As late summer turns to early autumn it is very tempting to hope for an ‘Indian Summer’ to put off the …
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Tuckett Field Last month’s edition (August) of Community News contained a special report by FRA on Biodiversity in Frenchay, including a brief reference to Tuckett Field as ‘Area 3’ of that report. So, I thought it would be very appropriate to follow-up with an extract from the book entitled “A Grand Tour of Frenchay” …
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I expect that most of you reading this have a favourite painter. Everyone who knows me realises that I am a devoted fan of the French Artist Claude Monet His paintings are said to be the most well known and loved works of art in the world. I have many books full of copies of his most famous works. Just a short time …
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While Frenchay adapts to a major transformation with the development of the former Hospital site, it remains a village very conscious and proud of its special history. So too it is with the Dings Crusaders who have brought the excellent facility of Shaftsbury Park to Frenchay, but always respecting the episodes of …
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FRENCHAY BELL TOWER OPEN JULY 9TH 2-4 PM Come and watch the Church bells being rung! There will be expert ringers available if you would like to “have a go” (8yr+ to try ringing.) Bellringing is a team activity that stimulates the brain and helps keep you fit’ The challenge and pleasure of ringing is to ring with other …
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This is my 221st article in this magazine, so please forgive me if I ever repeat myself. It would have been the 222nd, but, one month during the pandemic, there was no magazine. I have not featured our lovely Queen and her family before, but we have just had her special weekend! She certainly deserves all the praise …
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Our meeting in May was our Resolutions evening when a member gave us an outline of what was being proposed - Women and Girls with ASD & ADHD - under-identified, under-diagnosed, misdiagnosed, under-supported. The resolution was unanimously passed and will go to the National Federation of Women’s Institutes …
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Do you remember the Coronation? Most people had no television and I stood outside the garage in Frome Valley Road and watched the procession on a tiny television - no sound. Then we had a street party with the children in fancy dress. I went as Queen Elizabeth 1st and my brother went as King Farouk (he was constantly …
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The 31st of May this year marks 150th anniversary of the death of Lizzie Tuckett. Born in The Old House Frenchay in 1837, Elizabeth Fox Tuckett was the eldest surviving daughter of Francis and Mariana Tuckett. Lizzie was educated at the Quaker Girls’ School in Cedar Hall, and became an artist, and the author of many …
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In this new exhibition we examine the role of women in the workplace, how class distinctions defined the opportunities that were available to them and how social change and key moments in history blurred these lines. These themes will be explored through the lives of women who lived in Frenchay in the 19th and 20th …
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