Odds & Ends

• Clubs in Bower Ashton
• Allotments
• Famous Bower Ashtonians
• High and Low Tide Times
• Recent House Prices & Council Tax Bands
• Worth a Mention
• Local News and Events Resources

Clubs in Bower Ashton

Clubs that run from Ashton Park School are shown on the regular events page. Some of these clubs and courses are open to all ages. The UWE's Art, Media and Design campus in Kennel Lodge Road also has some open courses

Bedminster Cricket Club (BCC) (external link) has its playing field in Bower Ashton, accessed from Clanage Road, beside their old playing field and pavilion now Teddies nursery.

Bedminster Cricket Clubs new (in 2007) pavilion with Ashton Courts Rownham Plantation in the background.

The photo is taken from the road leading to the Stone Yard. I was once told by a retired railway worker, who worked on this line that Brunel had a workshop near here.

BCC has a long history going back to 1847. Including Dr. W.G. Grace in the 1870's playing for them, this page however wasn't his finest hour!

• Junior Football: Ashton Boys under 11's. Also teams from 5 to adult. Playing in Greville Smyth Park, under 11's A - 2 wins from 2 when I write this on 29 Sept 07.

• Greville Smyth Tennis Club.

• David Lloyd Leisure Club - Bristol. Just a little outside of Bower Ashton by the Park & Ride in Long Ashton.

If you have more details on events or clubs in Bower Ashton. Just use the contacts page.

Allotments

A good proportion of Bower Ashton is taken up by allotments, over 180 of them. There are waiting lists on all of the five areas.

Managed by the Hotwells and District Allotments Association, contact information via links below.

• Hotwells and District Allotments Association with newsletters and contact information.
• Bristol City Council: Allotments.

PS The 'B' in Bower Ashton has been erased on the map by one of the allotments, so someone made a guess as to the name and we are now known as 'Lower Ashton'.

Famous Bower Ashtonians

• (John) Beverly Nichols. Born: 9th Sep 1898, 'The Woods', Bower Ashton. Writer and occasional actor/broadcaster. Died: 15th Sep 1983, London. 'Down the Garden Path' (1932) his most famous work amazingly still widely available online!

  Memories of Bristol: also has an informative page.

• Francis 'Flanny' Flanagan. Naval pilot and steamship captain, lived at Crossways in Courtlands Lane from 1939 to 1988.

  Naval pilot based at Avonmouth pre WW2 and post WW2, in the 1970's captain of the SS Waverly.

Use the contact page to suggest someone else either born or resident at some time in Bower Ashton.

High and Low Tide Times

When the Samuel Plimsoll swing bridge opens in the rush hour you should certainly add some time to get across the river.

Bridge swings are almost always near to the high tide time. BBC West Tide Times (next 6 days). Sea Mills is the closest to Bristol Docks.

There will be a small difference (a delay) before the high or low tides reach Bristol Docks.

Recent House Prices & Council Tax Band links

• www.houseprices.co.uk: Recent House Prices from land registry information.

  Enter a post code or the street name, city and postal district: Blackmoors Lane Bristol BS3 for example.

• www.voa.gov.uk: Council Tax Valuation, showing band information and any pending reviews.

Worth a Mention

• FrOGS: Friends Of Greville Smyth Park

  The photo is from near the main entrance on Ashton Road taken 5th November 2006.

  Shown as Bedminster Park on this map from the c 1900 Somerset Archive Map, choose east from the original map.

   

• Although Bower Ashton Terrace, is in Ashton Gate it deserves a mention too. Bower Ashton Terrace was probably built for railway workers and appears on the Victorian map.

  The painting 'The Backs' by Landreth Leaper, shows a curious shaped once terraced house but now a unusual semi detatched house. The artist, Landreth Leaper has a good eye.

• Fancy a local long walk or cycle ride? Try the River Avon Trail

  Sustrans: Bristol to Portishead page (needs adobe reader) is interesting.

Local News and Events Resources

For more information on local events see:-

• The Pigeon. Note that you can now download the magazine from their web site, it was just under 8Mb in March 2008.
• Southville Community Centre.
• Tobacco Factory: Events. These are special events not theatre productions. Which of course you can find on the site also if you wish too.
• Bristol Council: What's On.

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