We’ll be Singing Around the Christmas Tree with the Courage Choir at Barton Farmyard on Sunday 17th December, from 4-5pm.

Ivor Slocombe reassesses the history of the Priory, and the community of Anglican nuns who lived there in the mid-19th century.

Crowds turned up at Barton Farmyard for Bradford on Avon's first Apple Day. Gillian Livingstone explains the thinking behind this 'fun event with a serious purpose.

Bradford’s railway line and station provided the locations for an exciting – if somewhat surreal – sequence in A Fire Has Been Arranged, a 1935 film directed by Leslie S Hiscott.

An eco-friendly woodland area is being created alongside the Bath-bound platform by the Friends of Bradford on Avon Station. John Baxter recounts the story behind the scheme

Trust member Stephen Hills recalls some of the civil engineering challenges that accompanied the construction of Bradford on Avon’s Southway Park development.

The name of Eric Walrond was completely unknown to me until a historian friend Dave Chapple who lives in Bridgwater mentioned his name to me, together with the fact that Eric had once lived in Bradford on Avon. This impelled me to find out more.

This book is a social history, of what it was like to work in the rubber factory and, as so many in the town worked in or for the factory, of its impact on the life of the town as a whole.

Kate Nicholls gathers recollections of the ‘China Hens’ – the two remarkable women who played a crucial role in the creation and development of Bradford on Avon Preservation Trust.

Twenty years after the then Prince of Wales officially opened the newly restored West Barn, Margaret Dobson writes an entertaining account of the events leading up to the royal visit.

On Sunday 7 May between 12 noon and 3pm, the Bradford on Avon Preservation Trust is hosting a family fun picnic in Barton Farmyard in front of the Tithe Barn.

There has been a massive resurgence across the west country in recent years in the ancient tradition of wassailing and celebrating the fruit of the apple tree. A fine thing indeed.

Our new regular columnist, Ralph Oswick, looks back (fairly) fondly to his days as a resident of Bradford on Avon

Rosie MacGregor discusses the events and themes that inspired her latest book: Remnants and Yarns Poverty and protest in the woollen industry in Bradford on Avon.

Any nasty bugs and evil imps hanging round the Hens’ Orchard were well and truly sent packing at the end of January.

Dan Farrell, General Manager and Technical Director at the Moulton Bicycle Company, will be presenting the next in our series of talks on Wednesday 15 February.

The Preservation Trust are pleased to announce that we have donated £13,000 to A New Skate Park for BoA. 

We’ll be Singing Around the Christmas Tree with the Courage Choir at Barton Farmyard on Sunday 18 December, from 4-5pm.

The Bradford on Avon Carollers will be singing some real traditional carols around the town during December.