An imposing new stained glass window recently installed at a local church has been attracting admiring comments from worshippers and members of the wider community. The 22sqm window on the front aspect of Holy Family Roman Catholic Church, which faces Patchway Roundabout (just off the A38), is composed of more than 440 individual panes of stained glass and was designed
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Sea Harrier airlifted to new museum site
An unusual scene unfolded over the former Filton Airfield site on 8th March when a Chinook helicopter was drafted in to move a Sea Harrier ‘jump jet’ to its new home at the Aerospace Bristol museum, located just off Hayes Way on the Patchway side of the airfield. To reach its new home inside a historic hangar that forms part
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The last Concorde ever to fly has safely completed her journey to Aerospace Bristol, a new £19m museum that is due to open this summer at a site on the Patchway side of the former Filton Airfield. The complex move was conducted with the greatest care by engineers from British Airways and Airbus, who managed every facet of Concorde’s final
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