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"Desanctify Bedminster! As featured on the BBC podcast Gangster - take a haunted wander through South Bristol’s unglamorous underbelly. A two-hour descent into the grit of grave robbers and body snatchers, the sordid glow of hanging judges and man-eating lions, and the Brinks-Mat cache laundered through local banks."
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A event on Thursday 4th September. The event starts at 18:00.
Bedminster’s older than Bristol and Show of Strength's 5-star walking tour takes you to extraordinary places where amazing things happened.
We’ll introduce you to grave robbers and body snatchers; concrete coffins and hanging judges; a man-eating lion; an exotic princess who was one of the world’s great impostors; and a forgotten Victorian murder – or was it?
And running through it all, like hot liquid gold, the still missing millions laundered in Bedminster from the Brink’s-Mat robbery, Britain’s biggest ever. BBC Sounds podcast GANGSTER: The Story of John Palmer features our tour – Bedminster will never seem the same again.
Start: The Dark Horse (Formerly The Ropewalk), 5 Nelson Parade, Bedminster, Bristol BS3 4JA
End: North Street near the Hen & Chicken, food available https://www.henandchicken.com/
Awards include Best Live Performance, Creative Bath Awards and Best of Bristol: Theatre, Bristol24/7
Collect the set with our walks including new Cary Grant tour and Blackbeard/Harbourside www.showofstrength.org.uk
All tours available for private bookings [email protected]
Updates on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/showofstrength/
Twitter @showofstrength Instagram @showofstrengthtc
Mainly on the flat, suitable for wheelchairs, lasts 2 hours, distance 1.5 miles.
Regular pauses with outdoor seating & toilets at The Steam Crane half way round.
Full risk assessment done.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
We’ll introduce you to grave robbers and body snatchers; concrete coffins and hanging judges; a man-eating lion; an exotic princess who was one of the world’s great impostors; and a forgotten Victorian murder – or was it?
And running through it all, like hot liquid gold, the still missing millions laundered in Bedminster from the Brink’s-Mat robbery, Britain’s biggest ever. BBC Sounds podcast GANGSTER: The Story of John Palmer features our tour – Bedminster will never seem the same again.
Start: The Dark Horse (Formerly The Ropewalk), 5 Nelson Parade, Bedminster, Bristol BS3 4JA
End: North Street near the Hen & Chicken, food available https://www.henandchicken.com/
Awards include Best Live Performance, Creative Bath Awards and Best of Bristol: Theatre, Bristol24/7
Collect the set with our walks including new Cary Grant tour and Blackbeard/Harbourside www.showofstrength.org.uk
All tours available for private bookings [email protected]
Updates on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/showofstrength/
Twitter @showofstrength Instagram @showofstrengthtc
Mainly on the flat, suitable for wheelchairs, lasts 2 hours, distance 1.5 miles.
Regular pauses with outdoor seating & toilets at The Steam Crane half way round.
Full risk assessment done.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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