Caraboo
Our aim is to make the Caraboo Neighbourhood (BS3) a pleasant and enjoyable place to live in and visit.
Many of you will have noticed a significant improvement at the burial ground since our last message. Our thanks go to Council Parks staff who cleared the main paths and areas around the benches this week. Please note that Saturday’s planned tidy up won’t be going ahead. The brambles bordering the walls will need cutting back, which will take place after September once the nesting period is over. We will post about that and any other events here as usual, but meanwhile please enjoy this wonderful space.
The Hebron Road Burial Ground is getting overgrown! We have two tidying sessions coming up: Sunday 2nd June 10.00- 12.00.
EDIT: 15 JUNE SESSION NO LONGER HAPPENING
All welcome, please join us. (Entrance via Melville Terrace)
The ground is in need of attention!
If you would like to volunteer for some chopping and clearing please comment below, or if you prefer you can send us a message letting us know the best way to contact you and we will be in touch. We try to organise sessions so there is something for everyone, whatever your age, fitness level and experience etc., so please don’t hold back.
08/12/2022
Burial ground today, photographed by Chris Bertram
29/08/2022
Princess Caraboo is latest sculpture by Getting Up To Stuff The artist is celebrating some of Bristol's most notable women who do not have statues to them
29/08/2022
The new arrival in the Hebron Burial Ground from artist gettinguptostuff, a statue of Princess Caraboo.
We'll be out tomorrow at 11 tidying-up the Burial Ground (Saturday the 20th). All welcome, tools provided!
13/08/2022
A bit more progress!
We'll be out clipping and tidying tomorrow 11-12. It may be hot so wear a hat!
06/08/2022
Some before and after today. Some progress made!
We'll be clipping and tidying in the burial ground tomorrow (6th August) from 11 for about an hour. All welcome!
Tomorrow and every Saturday in August, we'll be tidying up the Burial Ground at 11am for an hour or so. Helpers are very welcome. Just turn up. Gloves and tools should be available!
12/03/2022
For ten weeks in 1817 Mary Baker, a cobbler’s daughter from Devon convinced the great and good of Bristol that she was Princess Caraboo, daughter of the King of Javasu. Ten years later she returned to the city to live in Bedminster and earn her living doing something very different. She is buried in Hebron Burial Ground, a stone's throw from the Pocket Park.
Find out more about her remarkable story at this Show of Strength production at the Pocket Park, March 25th - 27th. Free tickets on sale from 2pm on Monday 14th March from: https://showofstrength.org.uk/productions/princess-caraboo-bedminsters-impostor
07/03/2022
We are very excited to announce that we are expecting a royal visitor to the Pocket Park later in March! Dates and tickets to be announced soon. Show Of Strength Theatre Company. Caraboo
First burial ground tidy up of 2022 will take place on:
Saturday 5 March
from 11 until 1
entrance on Melville Terrace
Everybody is welcome