Talk:Bristol/to do/Archive 1

Possibly rename Arts and leisure to culture, and split to Culture of Bristol to reduce to summary. Done. Jezhotwells (talk) 17:04, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

From the GA delisting:


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 * " In the 1960s Filton played a key role in the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic airliner project. Concorde components were manufactured in British and French factories and shipped to the two final assembly plants, in Toulouse and Filton. The French manufactured the centre fuselage and centre wing and the British the nose, rear fuselage, fin and wingtips, while the Rolls-Royce/Snecma 593 engine's manufacture was split between Rolls-Royce (Filton) and SNECMA (Paris). The British Concorde prototype made its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford on 9 April 1969, five weeks after the French test flight. In 2003 British Airways and Air France decided to cease flying the aircraft and to retire them to locations (mostly museums) around the world. On 26 November 2003 Concorde 216 made the final Concorde flight, returning to Filton airfield to be kept there permanently as the centrepiece of a projected air museum. This museum will include the existing Bristol Aero Collection, which includes a Bristol Britannia aircraft. " Done - Jezhotwells (talk) 01:33, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * " Cameron Balloons, the world's largest manufacturer of hot air balloons. " Done - Jezhotwells (talk) 01:33, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * " Stop frame animation films and commercials produced by Aardman Animations and television series focusing on the natural world have also brought fame and artistic credit to the city. "  Done - Jezhotwells (talk) 20:52, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * "In literature Bristol is noted as the birth place of the 18th century poet Thomas Chatterton, and the poets Robert Southey, who was born in Wine Street, Bristol in 1774, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge married the Bristol Fricker sisters; and William Wordsworth spent time in the city where Joseph Cottle first published Lyrical Ballads in 1798." Done - Jezhotwells (talk) 01:33, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * " The 18th and 19th century portrait painter Sir Thomas Lawrence and 19th century architect Francis Greenway, designer of many of Sydney's first buildings, came from the city, and more recently the graffiti artist Banksy. Some famous comedians are locals, including Justin Lee Collins, Lee Evans, and writer/comedian Stephen Merchant. " Done - Jezhotwells (talk) 20:52, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * " Bristol University graduates include the satirist Chris Morris, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost of Spaced and Shaun of the Dead and Matt Lucas and David Walliams of Little Britain fame. Hollywood actor Cary Grant was born in the city, Patrick Stewart, Jane Lapotaire, Pete Postlethwaite, Jeremy Irons, Greta Scacchi, Miranda Richardson, Helen Baxendale, Daniel Day-Lewis and Gene Wilder are amongst the many actors who learnt their craft at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, opened by Sir Laurence Olivier in 1946  and Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith, The Matrix) studied at Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School. "  All Done - Jezhotwells (talk) 20:52, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * "Speedway racing was staged, with breaks, at the Knowle Stadium from 1928 to 1960 when it was closed and the site redeveloped. The sport briefly returned to the City in the 1970s when the Bulldogs raced at Eastville Stadium. The Bulldogs of 1949 whitewashed Glasgow (White City) Tigers 70 - 14. " Done Jezhotwells (talk) 01:33, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * " However, on 1 April 1974, it became a local government district of the short-lived county of Avon. On 1 April 1996, it once again regained its independence and county status, when the county of Avon was abolished and Bristol became a Unitary Authority. " Done - Jezhotwells (talk) 21:35, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * " The rivers Avon and Frome cut through this limestone to the underlying clays, creating Bristol's characteristic hilly landscape. The Avon flows from Bath in the east, through flood plains and areas which were marshy before the growth of the city. To the west the Avon has cut through the limestone to form the Avon Gorge, partly aided by glacial meltwater after the last ice age. The gorge aided in the protection of Bristol Harbour, and has been quarried for stone to build the city. The land surrounding the gorge has been protected from development, as The Downs and Leigh Woods. " Done - Jezhotwells (talk) 21:35, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * " The city has a history of scientific achievement, including Sir Humphry Davy, the 19th century scientist who worked in Hotwells and discovered laughing gas. Bishopston has given the world two Nobel Prize winning physicists: Paul Dirac for crucial contributions to quantum mechanics in 1933, and Cecil Frank Powell, for a photographic method of studying nuclear processes and associated discoveries in 1950. The city was birth place of Colin Pillinger, planetary scientist behind the Beagle 2 Mars lander project, and is home to Adam Hart-Davis, presenter of various science related television programmes, the famed graffati artist Banksy, and the psychologists Susan Blackmore and Richard Gregory. " Done - Jezhotwells (talk) 21:35, 7 March 2009 (UTC)