Tilbury Bridge Walkway Of Memories: Artist Guided Tours

About

This event is a series of guided tours on Saturday 2nd October and 16th October  as part of our Black History Month programme with Artist EVEWRIGHT. He will take you on a tour of  Tilbury Bridge Walkway of Memories, a site-specific art installation, comprised of images, documents, audio recordings and memorabilia adorning the bridge that passengers of the Empire Windrush first walked across as they entered Britain in 1948.  Attending the live tour will give you an insight into how the installation was created and extra stories about the lives of the people who's photographs and documents are exhibited within the installation. This art and sound installation may invoke a multitude of emotions.

Visitors are invited to download a copy of our Exhibition Guide on arrival to the art and sound installation. Scan the QR code situated on the poster at the entrance of the exhibition with a summary of each story and links to the audio.  You can also access the stories by  scanning the QR codes on images across 22 listening windows placed throughout the installation. (Please bring your own device and ear/headphones). 

You can find out more on our web page: Tilbury Bridge Walkway of Memories.

Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.  Tilbury Bridge is a public area, for their own safety children should stay with their parent or guardian at all times and should not be allowed to wonder off on their own.

TRAVEL & ACCESSABILITY

Tilbury Passenger Bridge is accessible for wheelchairs and pushchairs.

Arriving by Car

If you are travelling by car please follow signs to Gravesend Ferry and park  in the Tilbury Riverside Activity Centre car park. Near the bus terminus.

Arriving by Train

If travelling by train from Essex or London you can purchase a through ticket to Tilbury Riverside, which includes the bus from Tilbury Town Station.  Ensign Buses co-ordinate the schedule with train arrivals and departures, to reach the installation by public transport. 

You can buy the ticket on https://tickets.c2c-online.co.uk/ or from any National Rail station ticket office.   

On arrival at Tilbury Town station please take the platform exit for Tilbury Dock (Not Tilbury Town) and you can take the no.99 bus from outside the station. (The fare is included in the train ticket price)

Tilbury International Cruise Terminal is served by a ferry service from Gravesend in Kent  to Tilbury (Mon-Sat ). Due to schedule changes however, please check https://tfl.gov.uk/ for the most up-to-date travel information.

COVID-19 STATEMENT

We ask visitors to follow government guidance on the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing to ensure their own safety and that of our staff and other visitors to our outdoor events and other activities.  Please read our guidance https://www.evewrightarts.org/covid-guidelines.  

Evewright Arts Foundation cannot accept any responsibility for the health and safety for you or your visiting party to this installation.