{"id":416536,"date":"2025-09-11T19:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416536\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T19:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:15:13","slug":"wallace-gromit-sculptures-gathered-together-for-grand-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416536\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallace &#038; Gromit sculptures gathered together for grand show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A display of more than 50 sculptures of Wallace &amp; Gromit characters will open to the public on Saturday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 53 giant versions of Aardman characters Wallace, Gromit and Feathers McGraw  have been gathered outside the Mall at Cribbs Causeway, on the edge of Bristol, for two weeks before they go up for auction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were placed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crlj995lwrno\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all across Bristol<\/a> as part of a summer trail to raise money for the Grand Appeal, which supports Bristol Children&#8217;s Hospital by funding research, helping families and paying for life-saving equipment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the years the trails have raised more than \u00a320m for The Grand Appeal, thanks to auction sales and donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A display of more than 50 sculptures of Wallace &amp; Gromit characters will open to the public on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-416536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115187268749742353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}