{"id":6610,"date":"2024-09-24T20:09:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T19:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/?p=6610"},"modified":"2024-09-24T20:09:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T19:09:30","slug":"speaker-meeting-9th-september-2024-st-georges-bristol-henry-alpass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/2024\/09\/24\/speaker-meeting-9th-september-2024-st-georges-bristol-henry-alpass\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Meeting 9th September 2024: St Georges, Bristol &#8211; Henry Alpass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2024\/09\/St-Georges-Brandon-Hill.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6612\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2024\/09\/St-Georges-Brandon-Hill-169x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2024\/09\/St-Georges-Brandon-Hill-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2024\/09\/St-Georges-Brandon-Hill.jpeg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>At our Speaker Meeting we were delighted to welcome Henry Alpass whose knowledge of St George\u2019s amazed us.\u00a0 Henry took us through the different phases of St George\u2019s ending with the recent upgrade.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He told us that in in the early 1800s St George\u2019s was St Augustine\u2019s Chapel\u00a0 and was built in a burial ground between Great George Street and Charlotte Street.\u00a0 Then in 1832, it became St George\u2019s Brandon Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Then in 1975, lunchtime concerts began at St George\u2019s.\u00a0 The first evening concert took place in 1981 and then in 1984, St George\u2019s closed as a parish church.\u00a0 In the 1990s St George\u2019s became a concert hall and the pews were replaced by seats.\u00a0 Finally in 2018, a new pavilion extension was completed, with a new gallery and performance spaces.<\/p>\n<p>We were amazed at the changes that have taken place over the years.\u00a0 Thank you, Henry, for taking us through the changes, some of us have visited recently and we all look forward to visiting again soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; At our Speaker Meeting we were delighted to welcome Henry Alpass whose knowledge of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":584,"featured_media":6612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-supper-meetings-read-what-our-speakers-have-to-say"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Speaker Meeting 9th September 2024: St Georges, Bristol - Henry Alpass | News | Blog | Events | SI Bristol<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Bristol : Blog &amp; News : Speaker Meeting 9th September 2024: St Georges, Bristol - Henry Alpass : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Bristol . 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