Tannery's donation of city parks land
IN the Ask Gerry column (BT, July 14), a reader was asking for information on Sparke Evans Park.
The park is situated in St Philip's Marsh, not St Philip's. This area is near “the Dings” as it was known.
Yes, Sparke Evans did own a tannery along the Feeder and apart from donating the land for the park they also donated a large piece of land next to their property which became the King George V playing fields.
This area is now an industrial estate.
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Does anyone have any information on Morses Pottery, situated in Victoria Terrace, St Philip's Marsh?
Roger Packer, 97 Footshill Road, Hanham.
Comments
by SeeBristol
Friday, March 30 2012, 1:49PM
“Where does the Dings end and St Philip's Marsh start? I have seen the area north of the railway arches, as being established in the Georgian era soon after the creation of the Feeder Canal but before the building of GWR and Midland Railway lines that cross the marsh. Water colours of the Marsh from above Brislington Turnpike on the Bath Road, show brickworks by the river, in St Philips marsh, and kilns already established on the floating harbour in St Philips (now Glass Wharf) and shown on Jacobus Millerd's maps of 1673. Was the community built near the feeder canal, St Philips Marsh, including St Silas church classed as part of the Dings. Although the Dings near Dings Park the other side of the railway has changed considerably since the first industrial terraces were built shown on Ashmead's maps, it has remained a housing area, where all the housing but for a few on Feeder Road have been lost.”