This week Gerry Brooke answers your questions about the Memorial Ground, Totterdown's old cinema, Cabot Circus street names and the Evening World newspaper.

DO you know how the Memorial Ground got its name? Who is it a memorial to?

Jim Lamb, Kingswood.

The current home ground of both Bristol Rovers and Bristol Rugby Club, the Memorial Ground at Horfield is dedicated to all those city rugby players who lost their lives during World War I.

It was opened on September 24, 1921, by the then Lord Mayor, GB Britton,

as a home for the rugby club.

At that time Rovers were playing at Eastville.

The stadium was built on what had been known as Buffalo Bill’s Field – but that is another story in itself.

I remember The Gaiety in Knowle, but was there ever a cinema in Totterdown?

Ben James, Windmill Hill.

Yes, there was, next to the old YMCA building near The Bush Hotel. Confusingly, it was known as the Knowle Picture House.

It closed in 1960 and became a supermarket.

I’ve been to look around Cabot Circus with its new streets, Concorde and Brigstow, but who on earth was George White? And why Philadelphia Street?

Andy Furnis, Bedminster.

George White, who started the aircraft factory at Filton in 1910, later to be known as BAC, is rightly seen as one of the founders of the UK’s aircraft industry.

He also started the city’s electric tram service.

Surely it’s a fitting tribute to have a new street (pictured right) named after him?

There was a little- noticed Philadelphia Court, off Bond Street, demolished when Cabot Circus was being built, but also a fondly remembered Philadelphia Street lost in a

wartime blitz.

This was presumably in commemoration of the founding of the US state by the Quaker, William Penn.

In fact, it was named after his father, Admiral Sir William Penn, who is buried in St Mary Redcliffe.

Can you tell me when the Evening World newspaper finished?

Sandy Urch, Brislington.

Yes, it was in January 1962. The paper had been started in 1929 by Lord Rothermere, who hoped to establish a chain of similar papers throughout the provinces.

The “World” building still stands, recently refurbished, just off the Centre, in Colston Avenue.

By contrast, the Evening Post was established, in opposition to the Evening World, in a converted leather warehouse, using borrowed machinery, in Silver Street in April 1932.