Georgian Bury St Edmunds
Adrian Tindall
- Region:
- East of England
- Notice Period:
- Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Retired Professional
- Fee:
- Paid: £75 plus travel expenses (25p/mile, up to 50 miles from Bury St Edmunds)
- Category:
- History
- Updated:
- 3rd September 2026
- Tagged:
- Georgian | Assembly Rooms | Theatres | Fashion History
In the Georgian era, Bury St Edmunds reinvented itself as a fashionable place of resort for ‘Persons of Quality’, who would flock to the town to take the air and enjoy the Bury Fair, the public assemblies, the comedies, and the company. This illustrated talk will introduce the people and places that made 18th century Bury so attractive to polite society.
Views: 17 | Enquiries: 0About Adrian Tindall
I am an accredited Green Badge Tour Guide, an Associate of the Institute of Tourist Guiding and Chair of the Bury St Edmunds Association of Registered Tour Guides. I am the author of ‘A Neat and Beautiful Theatre: The Story of Bury St Edmunds Market Cross' (2024) and The Story of Bury St Edmunds Athenaeum: 'An Elegant Structure and its Persons of Quality' (2026).
I was a professional archaeologist for over forty years, serving as county archaeologist for Hereford and Worcester, Cheshire and Cambridgeshire. I have excavated in East Anglia, the Midlands, Yorkshire, the North West, Wales, Orkney, Italy and Libya. I am a Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Other Talks on SpeakerNet by Adrian Tindall
- 'The Montpellier of Suffolk': Bury St Edmunds' French Connections
- 'An Extraordinary Man': The Life and Death of Walter Guinness, Lord Moyne of Bury St Edmunds
- 'Not the Slightest Cause for Panic': Bury St Edmunds in the Great War
- 'A Handsome Little Town': a Virtual Tour of Bury St Edmunds
- 'Mr Soane Came to Breakfast': Sir John Soane and James Oakes' House
- 'The Monastery Alone a City': 1,000 Years of the Abbey of St Edmund
- ‘A Neat and Beautiful Theatre’: the Story of Bury St Edmunds Market Cross
- 'Persons of Quality': the Story of Bury St Edmunds Athenaeum
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