M Shed was packed with Easter egg doodling, some vintage films, sniffables, edibles and some wannabe Fry's Angels (see gallery below for our top picks!) A huge thanks must go to all the fantastic M Shed volunteers and to all at Frenchay Village Museum. Alan and his team bought along some egg-ceptional (sorry) treasures from the incredible Frenchay archives including vintage Fry's games, beautiful reproductions of the Easter egg catalogues from the 1930s and their wonderful replica of one of the oldest chocolate bars in existence - a block of Fry's chocolate from 1851. To see the real thing and for all things Fry then we couldn't recommend a visit to Frenchay Village Museum or a scroll through their online archives more highly and if all that chocolate history has piqued your interest as well as your taste buds than grab a copy of Alan's brilliant book.
Whilst there were was stalls and music and the Easter bunny cycling about Bea was leading the Egg-strodinary Stories Walking Tour, through forgotten alleyways and Georgian streets we had a great day sharing some chocolate and chocolate history. Again, special thanks must go to Anne Colley and her husband Jack for joining us on the first walk; it's been a real treat to share the fantastic story of Anne's famous cousin, Elsie Griffin for which we have Anne to thank and a particular pleasure to blast out a bit of opera around the dank industrial streets of the Pithay! If you missed the tours today there are still spaces on the walks tomorrow at 11am and 2pm departing from the ticket office at No.1 the Harbourside, tours last approximately one hour, £5 adults, £3 for children, free for Fry's Angels!
If you'd like to find out about booking your very own Chocolate Walk, have any bits of chocolate history you'd like to share or would like to send your thoughts about our Easter activities then please do email us.
Happy Easter everyone!
