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Clifton and Durdham Downs BRISTOL BRANCH OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION CLIFTON AND DURDHAM Price £3.50 2006 DOWNS: A PLACE OF PUBLIC ISSN 1362 7759 RESORT AND RECREATION l No. 119 GERRY NICHOLS THE BRISTOL BRANCH OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION LOCAL HISTORY PAMPHLETS CLIFTON �ND DURDHAlY[ DOWNS: Hon. General Editor: PETER HARRIS A PLACE OF PUBLIC RESORT Assistant General Editor: NORMA KNIGHT AND RECREATION Editorial Advisor: JOSEPH BETTEY The 442 acres of the Clifton Down and Durdham Down (collectively and colloquially known as the Downs) are one of Bristol's finest assets. They Clifton and Durdham Downs: a Place of Public Resort and Recreation is are an accessible and protected green open space within a mile of the the one hundred and nineteenth pamphlet in this series. heart of the City and truly function as the 'lungs of Bristol'. Those who enjoy these facilities now are indebted to the actions of those citizens of Gerry Nichols has used his retirement after thirty years in the electricity .l generation industry to research local history, particularly relating to the I Bristol who obtained the Clifton and Durdham Downs (Bristol) Act in Redland area and wider railway matters. Having walked dogs on the Downs 1861 to ensure that the Downs 'shall for ever hereafter be kept open and for most of his life, this project has been one where the 'field work' has I unenclosed as a place of public resort'. An earlier pamphlet in this series been undertaken regularly! He is President of Bristol Railway Circle, an described how the Downs Committee ( comprising nominees fromBristol Assistant Librarian of the Stephenson Locomotive Society and is a past City Council and the Society of Merchant Venturers) have managed the churchwarden of Redland Parish Church. He is the author of 'To Keep Open Downs to meet this requirement. The intention here is to look at the and Unenclosed': Management of Durdham Down since 1861, the one various recreational uses of the Downs. hundred and sixteenth pamphlet in this series. The preamble to the Clifton and Durdham Downs Act of 1861 noted The publication of a pamphlet by the Bristol Branch of the Historical that they had been used as a place of public resort and recreation since Association does not necessarily imply the Branch's approval of the time immemorial. One of the early references in Latimer' s Annals is to opinions expressed in it. the Ostrich Inn which in the eighteenth century was infamous for its The Historical Association is a national body which seeks to encourage cockpit and bowling green and was a popular resort for Bristolians and interest in all forms of history. Further details about membership and its those frequenting the Hotwell. The road to the Ostrich Inn is marked in activities can be obtained from the Secretary, The Historical Association, the northeast corner of the Hammersley Plan of the Manor of Clifton 59A Kennington Park Road, London, SEl I 4JH. dating from 1746 (see Jones 1992). However by the 1841 census the only large buildings on the site were Down House occupied by Richard ISSN 1362 7759 © David Higgins Brickdale Ward, a solicitor, and Grove House, occupied by George Bush, two of the substantial houses around the Downs occupied by the merchant and professional classes moving out of the centre of the City. The building to the left in the background of the early Clifton Cricket Club picture is probably Grove House but there is another building visible in the trees to the right which could be the Down House before it was rebuilt in its present form and position. There is such a wide variety of matters to discuss that they have been grouped together under four main headings: organised sport, earning a living, transport and entertainments. Inevitably there is overlap but hopefully sufficient is included in each heading to describe its impact on the Downs. Cover illustration: An enlargement from the Fedden photograph showing the temporary tents for the cricketers. Could the building in the background be the Ostrich Inn? ORGANISED SPORT present position and they were moved under my direction and that Cricket and Summer Sports of Mr [William Hicks] Townsend [ 1791-1867] who, I think, was The concern of the Downs Committee over the dedication of spaces Sir John Smyth's Land Agent and Surveyor. At that date, many to particular sport was focused particularly on the enclosure of a playing years before the Act of 1861 when the Clifton and Durdham 'square' forthe Clifton Ciicket Club adjacent to Savile Road. The history Downs were transferred to the Corporation of Bristol, the Lords of this arrangement was explored by the Town Clerk in 1903 in a written of the Manor of Clifton Downs were the Society of Merchant opinion to the Downs Committee which noted that 'Clifton Cricket Club Venturers and the Lords of the Manor of Durdham Downs were had leave in 1819 from the Lords of the Manor of Henbury to use a piece Sir John Smyth of Ashton Court and Mrs Marianne Colston and of land near the Sea Walls until moving to their present pitch in 1849 near her Trustees. The Site of the present Cricket Ground where the Hollybush Lane. They had a right of exclusion of all others except poles and chains now are, being on the Durdham Downs, sanction Commoners'. The opinion of the Town Clerk was that, as they had no rights to their being placed in their present position was obtained from against the Lords of the Manor Henbury in 1861, the Clifton and Durdham the Lords of the Manor of the Durdham Downs, but whether· in Down Act gave them no rights against the Corporation. The ground, unless writing or verbally I do not remember - and they have remained enclosed, would be of no use for the purpose of playing cricket and as in their present position from that time until now. Sir John Smyth playing of matches there gave pleasure to a section of the public, 'I think died in the year 1849 and the poles and chains were transferred it would be a pity if the present arrangements were put an end to'. In the fromthe Sea Walls in his lifetime. I am the last surviving member papers of Clifton Cricket Club is a fascinating memorandum written in 1916 of the Clifton Club who played at the Sea Walls, when the poles which is included here verbatim with notes in square brackets by the author. and chains were there and who played with the Clifton Cricket 'Memorandum relating to The Poles and Chains on Durdham Downs Club where they now are, before the Downs became vested in the belonging to the Clifton Cricket Club' Corporation of Bristol. I was elected a Life Honorary Member of 'I was born in December 1825 and was admitted a Solicitor in the Clifton Cricket Club in 1879 and am now in my 91 st year. 1848. At an early age I began to play cricket in the Clifton Club Dated 19 September 1916 (signed) Peregrine Hammonds' of which my late Father, William Thomas Hammonds [1801-1884 If the date of 1819 forthe playing of cricket on the Downs represents of 33 Richmond Terrace], the late Sir William Miles [1797-1878 the earliest formation of the Clifton Cricket Club, W T Hammonds of Leigh Court], then Mr Miles, and the late Mr Robert Bright would then have been only 18. His eldest son, Peregrine, born in 1825 [1795-1869 ship owner and cotton manufacturer of Abbots Leigh] gave his birthplace in the Census returns as Berrow, Somerset and the were the Founders. In those days, in the Forties, the poles and family were living in the Manor House at Berrow in the 1841 Census. chains, now on that part of the Downs near Mr William Edward However we are fortunate that William Joseph Fedden of Redland Bank George's House [Downside House now Bristol University, Wills took an early photograph of the Clifton Cricket Club playing on the Hall], were fixed near the Sea Walls and the Clifton Cricket Club Downs which is reproduced overleaf. The original is badly faded but played there. The poles and chains had to be removed when the some considerable detail can be recovered. From the style of dress Duke of Beaufort's Regiment of Yeomanry came for their annual (including the gentleman wearing a top hat at square leg), the location training to Bristol and exercised on the ground near the Sea Walls adjacent to what is now Savile Road and W Fedden marriage in 1855 and this had the effect of so cutting up the turf that many dates the photograph to the period 1850-1855. accidents to cricketers occurred. On one occasion one of the The Clifton Club had a variable relationship with the Downs players named Blake, a member of the Lansdown Club, had his Committee who appear to have been wary of the influence of some of mouth so badly cut that I was sent with him to Mr Nat Smith, the the Committee, the popularity of the game and the crowds it attracted. well known surgeon of those days, to have it sewn up - after In April 1888 Mr Frank Townsend (on behalf of Clifton CC) was given which it was decided to remove the pole and chains to the part of permission to fill in a hollow near cricket ground but in August of the the Downs where they now stand, not used by the Yeomanry. following year the Committee were chiding the club because of damage 'I was at that time Secretary of the Clifton Club and helped to to turf by carriages of Clifton CC near the pitch.
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