The Gromit Trail and what it led to

Gromit, just in case you don’t know, is a very popular and much-loved character from Ardamn Animations, who has featured in some cracking good films, ‘A Grand day Out’, ‘The Wrong Trousers’, ‘A Close Shave’, ‘A Matter of Loaf and death and ‘The Curse of the Were-Rabbit’. The films are made through the stop-motion technique and they are utterly brilliant.

I think the idea of having decorated creatures may have started in Kansas with the Cow Parade, but large animals have featured around cities for quite a while now; their were pigs in Bath, Wow! Gorillas from Bristol Zoo, donkeys in Weston-super-Mare, and now Gromits in Bristol.

There were 92 large and small Gromits placed around the city, and there was a trail with a check-list for people to find and spot them. We didn’t follow the trail but we did see about four or five. Now the trail is over, the Gromits have been auctioned and have raised £2,300,000 for Bristol Children’s Hospital – gosh!! Amazing!One of them, just one model Gromit, Gromit Lightyear sold for £65,000. Fabulous! And what a very worthy cause!

I’m not sure which one this was, it may have been Poochadelic, the one in the feature picture is Sir Gromit, I think!