There’s Princess Caraboo (because you can’t do this sort of thing without her), but plenty of lesser-known tales, too, including the mysterious disappearance of Mr Lomas and, from within living memory, Bedminster’s extraordinary role in Britain’s biggest bullion robbery. It also involved visits to several pubs … Read More Related Articles The tour, starting at the Rope Walk on Bedminster Parade, explored stories of murder, mystery, betrayal and bullion.
It was really more of a guided tour involving professional actors, serving up some of the most sensational, shocking or strange stories from Bedminster’s rich history.
‘Blood and Butchery in Bedminster’ was the engagingly gruesome title of the offering from Bedminster-based theatre company Show of Strength (SoS) in the spring of 2018.Īs you’d expect with SoS, this wasn’t a play in the conventional sense, and it didn’t take place in a theatre. Prompted by a theatrical production earlier this year looking at some of the more bizarre and gruesome tales from Bedminster’s past, Eugene Byrne has been into the lion’s den …
