page_title: Bromyard
section_title: Culture
hierarchical_section_title: Bromyard / Culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Bromyard Downs - Brockhampton Primary School Opened on the 1st of June 1885. The original school opened with 7 children, it had one classroom, a hall and a house for the Head Teacher. The school has been improved over the years and now has seven classrooms.
context_page_description: Bromyard is a market town in the Bromyard and Winslow civil parish of the county of Herefordshire, England. It is situated in the valley of the River Frome. The 2011 census gives a population of approximately 4,500. It lies near to the county border with Worcestershire on the A44 between Leominster and Worcester. Bromyard has a number of traditional half-timbered buildings, including some of the pubs, and the parish church dates back to Norman times. For centuries there was a thriving livestock market. The town is twinned with Athis-de-l'Orne, Normandy.
context_section_description: The Bromyard & District Local History Society was founded in 1966, with a centre open three days a week which contains an archive, library and an exhibition room.
  The Conquest Theatre (run by volunteers) provides a programme of plays, films, variety, musicals, operettas, ballet, pantomime and concerts in a purpose-built centre constructed in 1991.
  The Time Museum of Science Fiction is in the centre of Bromyard, housing exhibits from TV programmes including Dr Who, Red Dwarf and Thunderbirds, as well as props from the Star Wars films.
  Bromyard Arts is a not-for-profit enterprise with facilities for artists, craft makers, writers, musicians and performers.
  At Christmas time, volunteers known as the Bromyard Light Brigade organise an display of Christmas lights which are put up in October and switched on the last Saturday of November, running for the five weeks up to Christmas until after the New Year. The group established links with Blackpool Illuminations in 2010, and Blackpool's director Richard Ryan performed the switching-on ceremony in the same year; the volunteers were awarded The Queen's Award for Voluntary Services also in the same year.
  Bromyard is the home of 'Nozstock', The Hidden Valley Festival which attracts around 5,000 visitors at the end of July every year. This three-day event showcases bands from around the country across nine stages, alongside dance arenas, a cinema, a theatre and comedy stage, circus, and a vintage tractor arena.
  The Bromyard Gala, an annual weekend festival of country sports, vintage vehicles and displays of various kinds, is held in July.
  Bromyard holds a three-day folk festival each year in September, which particularly concentrates on English traditional music.
  Bromyard.info is the community website for Bromyard and District. Run as a Community Interest Company by volunteers, it is an online daily news site, has a events calendar; features places of interest, accommodation, pubs, restaurants and shopping directory, together with a local directory.
  Bromyard's monthly community magazine is Off the Record. It is published on the first Friday of each month and contains 60 pages of news from community groups.
  There is a U3A branch, and a "Poetry for Pleasure" group.
caption: Bromyard Downs - Brockhampton Primary School - geograph.org.uk - 413498
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