What's Your Trinity Story?
News & Events
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What's Your Trinity Story? Exhibition & Book Launch
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Exhibition of photos collected as part of the What's Your Trinity Story? Project
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Last Call For Your Trinity Photos!
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If you have any photos from your past at Trinity, please send them to us for our exhibition and booklet
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Stapleton Road BBC Video Nation
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Take a walk down Stapleton Road as our project worker Edson takes a look at the history of the British high street, as part of the BBC's Video Nation
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Images of 1987 conversion found
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As part of our journey to discover Trinity's history, we have found images from Trinity's conversion to a community centre in 1987
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Shout out!
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Do you have photos, tickets, memories of the gigs at Trinity? Are you happy to share them with our archive? Click here for more info
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What's Your Trinity Story?
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Trinity Community Arts is set to launch a new local history project, designed to collect people's stories and photos of their time spent at the Trinity Centre, Lawrence Hill
Funded by Heritage Lottery Fund Your Heritage Grant - oral history and archiving project about Trinity from 1960-today
The project explored the rich history of the Trinity Centre, with specific reference to its role as a music and community venue.
Trinity is probably best known for its role in the music scene of the 1990s, when it played host to some of the biggest domestic and international music stars of the time.
It's other incarnations have included its life as a parish church up until the 1970s, a base for African-Caribbean communities in the 1980s and its continued use as a music, community and training space today.
Heritage Lottery
The body which distributes a share of the income from the National Lottery to projects aimed at preserving and making accessible the nation's heritage
Trinity has received funding through Heritage Lottery Fund Young Roots and Your Heritage programmes two deliver two projects:
- The Bristol Sound - to run a series of workshops in 2008 based on the history of the Trinity Centre from 1829 onwards, during 2007-2008
- What's Your Trinity Story? - an oral history and archive project based on people's memories of Trinity from 1960-today, during 2009-2010
Bristol Sound Project
Heritage project exploring Trinity's role in the community and Bristol music scene, 1829-2009
The Trinity Centre has long been described as the birthplace of The Bristol Sound.
From punk to reggae, dubstep to drum 'n' bass, Trinity has been at the heart of Bristol's thriving music scene.
The 2008 Bristol Sound Project featured a series of creative workshops for young people, based on the Trinity Centre's colourful and varied past, culminating in a site specific performance At Tether's End.
