Cripps & Co began nearly 25 years ago when we decided that The Cotswolds needed somewhere where you could have a relaxed drink and delicious food that had been cooked in an unfussy way. A place that you could personalise as you wished and somewhere that you could have a live band. When converting an old barn into a party venue, the only brief given to the builder was; “somewhere you could dance on the tables”. Hence our first venue, Cripps Barn was born. What we hadn’t reckoned was it becoming the rave centre of Gloucestershire for a couple years. And then finally it transformed itself into a wedding venue...

Here are photocopies of two of the flyers we had made to advertise one of our raves in 1991 - They were sized so they would fit exactly into the glass panes of our local telephone boxes!