» Listings for April 2015

1. Behind the Scenes Tour of Alexandra Palace

   Posted on 9:00am Sunday 26th Apr 2015

   

   The Theatre

   Recently I was lucky enough to attend one of the rare behind the scenes history tours of Alexandra Palace. Named after Alexandra, Edward VII's wife, and affectionally known as Ally Pally.  The original building sadly burnt down just sixteen days after it opened.

2. Where Agatha Miller became Agatha Christie

   Posted on 9:00am Monday 13th Apr 2015

    

   On Christmas Eve, 24^th December 1914 Agatha Miller married Archie Christie, her first husband, at Emmanuel Church, Guthrie Road, Clifton, Bristol. On a recent visit to the city I did a bit of research to identify the location of the church only to discover, like in all good detective novels, that things were not as they first appeared to be.

3. The Distribution of Hot Cross Buns in a Churchyard

   Posted on 9:30pm Friday 3rd Apr 2015

   

   On Good Friday hot cross buns are distributed in the churchyard of St Bartholomew the Great. The ceremony known as the Butterworth Charity, was named after Joshua Whitehead Butterworth who created the trust in 1887. It was set up to provide the sum of six pence to twenty one needy widows in the parish and buns were to be handed out to children who attended the distribution. With the understanding that nowadays anyone who attends can have a hot cross bun I went to investigate further.