Bristol in Pictures: Harbour Festival and Graduation Ceremonies

Bristol in Pictures: Harbour Festival and Graduation Ceremonies

Vaseline

Image source, Plaster Communication

Image caption, Music is a key part of the Bristol Harbour Festival, with Eva Lazarus performing for the public on Saturday

  • Author, Steve Mellen
  • Role, BBC News, Bristol

Bristol is known for its festivals, especially in the summer, and this past weekend the city’s biggest event took place again.

Temperatures soared on Friday as the Bristol Harbour Festival kicked off with an evening of live music.

It is also graduation season at our two universities, and good news for one of the largest elementary schools in the city.

Image source, Plaster Communication

Brave souls: The city’s biggest event – the Bristol Harbour Festival – kicked off on Friday. One of the mainstays of the annual celebration of the city’s waterways is the cardboard boat race, which saw plenty of crews take part in on Saturday (above and below).

Image source, Plaster Communication

Graduation is over: It’s time for graduation and thousands of students from both UWE and the University of Bristol have donned their gowns and mortarboards for ceremonies celebrating their academic studies.

A new location: for the first time, UWE will hold its graduation ceremonies at Bristol Beacon, with around 6,000 graduates expected to attend this month to celebrate.

Go west: Off Piste Ski Trip – the UK’s largest black winter sports group – swapped snowboards for surfboards with 60 Londoners who spent time at The Wave in Bristol this week. Off Piste was set up to encourage more members of the black community to take up skiing and snowboarding, and is now looking at other sports where black communities are underrepresented.

Image source, Eamonn Twamley

They took their time: Kingswood RFC Titans hosted what the club itself calls the world’s largest walking rugby festival on July 13, with 44 teams from 34 clubs taking part, totalling 450 players.

Image source, Eamonn Twamley

Slower Sport: It is seven years since the club started holding walking rugby events. On 13th July several awards were presented including the fair play trophy to the Silver Ravens of Nailsea & Backwell RFC.

Image source, Ashton Gate Stadium

Those summer evenings: around 5,000 fans gathered to watch England take on Spain in the Euro 2024 final on Sunday night. Unfortunately for them, and millions of others across the country, Gareth Southgate’s men lost 2-1 to a late goal.

Image source, Ashton Gate Stadium

Expected: The stadium, home to Bristol City and rugby team Bristol Bears, was one of the most popular places to watch the games as England reached the European Championship final for the second year in a row.

Image source, Bridge farm primary

Well done: Bridge Farm Primary in Whitchurch has a Banksy, something not every school can boast. Now it can add an outstanding Ofsted report to its list of accolades after inspectors this week rated the school “Good” across the board. The school has around 630 pupils and headteacher Joy Mounter was praised for her leadership of staff.