Heart & Soul Funerals | Devonshire, England
Natural Death Care advocate Holly Blue Hawkins caught up with her friends, Simon Smith and Jane Morrell in Devonshire. This visit took place during Holly's tour of England's woodland burial sites.
What started out as a flower shop in Totnes, Heart & Soul Funerals has grown into a fully-fledged Funeral Home and training center for Celebrants and Funeral Directors. Their story is an inspiration. And so is this tour through their facility, a classic stone building by the river in Buckfastleigh. Imagine meeting Funeral Directors around their kitchen table over a pot of tea and tray of English biscuits!
The English natural burial grounds of today provide a veritable catalog of landscapes, design options, ownership configurations, and long-range planning for sustainability and appropriate use of land. Often referred to as “woodland burial grounds” the green burial movement in England is well over two decades old, with more than 250 sites in operation or planning stages. Holly Blue Hawkins, of Last Respects Consulting lastrespectsconsulting.com, has explored woodland burial sites, from the Lake District to Devonshire. Examples range from wild and wooded, to carefully-planted native habitat restoration, expansive meadows with spectacular views, and groomed, park-like forest paths, from rehabilitated farmlands to ancient forests.
Last Respects Consulting is dedicated to empowering individuals, families and communities in making well-informed end-of-life choices. Carbon footprint, the release of pollutants into the atmosphere and burial of valuable resources such as irreplaceable hardwoods, metals and concrete, are now factors we must weigh in contemplating legacy.
Visit our website lastrespectsconsulting.com to learn more about environmentally sustainable after-death care options, Legacy projects, tools for creating Spiritual-Ethical Wills, Advance Healthcare Directives and more.”
Places to see in ( Bristol - UK )
Places to see in ( Bristol - UK )
Bristol is a city straddling the River Avon in the southwest of England with a prosperous maritime history. Its former city-centre port is now a cultural hub, the Harbourside, where the M Shed museum explores local social and industrial heritage. The harbour's 19th-century warehouses now contain restaurants, shops and cultural institutions such as contemporary art gallery The Arnolfini.
Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497 John Cabot, a Venetian, became the first European since the Vikings to land on mainland North America. In 1499 William Weston, a Bristol merchant, was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America. At the height of the Bristol slave trade, from 1700 to 1807, more than 2,000 slave ships carried an estimated 500,000 people from Africa to slavery in the Americas. The Port of Bristol has since moved from Bristol Harbour in the city centre to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock.
Bristol's modern economy is built on the creative media, electronics and aerospace industries, and the city-centre docks have been redeveloped as centres of heritage and culture. The city has the largest circulating community currency in the U.K.- the Bristol pound, which is pegged to the Pound sterling. The city has two universities, the University of the West of England and the University of Bristol and a variety of artistic and sporting organisations and venues including the Royal West of England Academy, the Arnolfini, Spike Island, Ashton Gate and the Memorial Stadium. It is connected to London and other major UK cities by road, rail, sea and air by the M5 and M4 (which connect to the city centre by the Portway and M32), Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway mainline rail stations, and Bristol Airport.
One of the UK's most popular tourist destinations, Bristol was selected in 2009 as one of the world's top ten cities by international travel publishers Dorling Kindersley in their Eyewitness series of travel guides. The Sunday Times named it as the best city in Britain in which to live in 2014 and 2017, and Bristol also won the EU's European Green Capital Award in 2015.
Alot to see in ( Bristol - UK ) such as :
SS Great Britain
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Bristol Zoo
Cabot Tower, Bristol
St Mary Redcliffe
Bristol Harbour
Wild Place Project
Queen Square, Bristol
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
Blaise Hamlet
Arnolfini
Blaise Castle Estate
Red Lodge Museum, Bristol
Brandon Hill, Bristol
Georgian House, Bristol
Tyntesfield
College Green, Bristol
Royal West of England Academy
Underfall Yard
Glenside Museum
Avon Valley Railway
Temple Church, Bristol
Victoria Rooms, Bristol
Kennet and Avon Canal
Dyrham Park
Leigh Woods National Nature Reserve
Noah's Ark Zoo Farm
Bristol Aquarium
Bristol Cathedral
M Shed
Caldicot Castle
The Bearpit
Avon Gorge
University of Bristol Botanic Garden
Ashton Court Estate
Durdham Down
Clifton Down
Victoria Park, Bristol
Eastville Park
St Andrews Park
Wills Memorial Building
Clifton Observatory
Stanton Drew stone circles
St George Park
Rainbow Casino
Christmas Steps, Bristol
Berkeley Square, Bristol
Greville Smyth Park
Upfest
Redcliffe Caves
( Bristol - UK) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Bristol . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Bristol - UK
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The Quantock Hills Express 23.10.10
Runnng from Eastleigh to Minehead videoed at Taunton arriving 25 mins down Black 5 44932 onthe leg from Weymouth to Bishops Lydeard on the WSR. Also the departure from Taunton with the smoke highlighted against a very stormy sky with class 47/500 on the rear.
Then went onto Williton & caught the DMU coming in. Finally the Black 5 joined by 6024 King Edward 1 going thru station non stop.(C&A)
UoB IAS Slavery: Legacies and Remembrance - Public Forum
Bristol was a major player in the slave trade during the eighteenth century but there are scarcely any traces of this history in our city today. The importance of this abominable commerce on the fabric of our city -- from its rich multiculturalism to its Georgian elegance -- has still to be recognised. The panel will take perspectives from different parts of the world and discuss how Bristol might acknowledge, face up to and carry forward its past.
This event took place on 26 June 2014 in the Great Hall of Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol. It was an Institute for Advanced Studies public panel discussion in association with the Bristol Festival of Ideas.
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Bristol ( (listen)) is a city and county in South West England with a population of 459,300. The wider district has the 10th-largest population in England. The urban area population of 724,000 is the 8th-largest in the UK. The city borders North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, with the cities of Bath and Gloucester to the south-east and north-east, respectively. South Wales lies across the Severn estuary.
Iron Age hill forts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon, and around the beginning of the 11th century the settlement was known as Brycgstow (Old English the place at the bridge). Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373, when it became a county of itself. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities after London in tax receipts. Bristol was surpassed by the rapid rise of Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool in the Industrial Revolution.
Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497 John Cabot, a Venetian, became the first European since the Vikings to land on mainland North America. In 1499 William Weston, a Bristol merchant, was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America. At the height of the Bristol slave trade, from 1700 to 1807, more than 2,000 slave ships carried an estimated 500,000 people from Africa to slavery in the Americas. The Port of Bristol has since moved from Bristol Harbour in the city centre to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock.
Bristol's modern economy is built on the creative media, electronics and aerospace industries, and the city-centre docks have been redeveloped as centres of heritage and culture. The city has the largest circulating community currency in the U.K.—the Bristol pound, which is pegged to the Pound sterling. The city has two universities, the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, and a variety of artistic and sporting organisations and venues including the Royal West of England Academy, the Arnolfini, Spike Island, Ashton Gate and the Memorial Stadium. It is connected to London and other major UK cities by road and rail, and to the world by sea and air: road, by the M5 and M4 (which connect to the city centre by the Portway and M32); rail, via Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway mainline rail stations; and Bristol Airport.
One of the UK's most popular tourist destinations, Bristol was selected in 2009 as one of the world's top ten cities by international travel publishers Dorling Kindersley in their Eyewitness series of travel guides. The Sunday Times named it as the best city in Britain in which to live in 2014 and 2017, and Bristol also won the EU's European Green Capital Award in 2015.