What a
difference a few years can make.
I was talking to someone that I had always thought of as a
Clevedonian a few weeks back and mentioned Marks’ Hill, a name commonly known and used by my family.
They looked at me a bit puzzled, and I said to them “You
know what I am talking about don’t you” They grinned a bit and said “You can’t catch
me you know. It’s the little bit of Hill Road where Marks the chemist had his
shop. Now it’s called Marine Hill”
I then patiently explained that whilst Ben Marks the chemist
took the business on from his father Fred, he, in turn had been apprenticed to
the chemist by His father who ran a
little tea shop and café at the very beginning of Hill Road .
This had caused the hill now known as Park Hill getting the
name Marks Hill.
“I suppose you don’t know where Coombe Hill is” I asked
them.
“Highdale Road ”
was the answer. “No” I said “Only the bottom part of Highdale Road was Coombe Hill,
Then the top part of it ran up through the firwoods to what was later called ‘The
Arches’ and then up to the farm when that was built”
When that was done they stopped calling the bottom part
Coombe Hill and it all became Highdale
Road . That was probably when Stewart Cottage was
built. They had a double purpose in doing that. first the stone they quarried out could be used in building the houses and second they opened up a way to East Clevedon.”.
It made me think of the changes that had taken place in
Clevedon. Hallam Road
as an example was intended to be called Osborne Road , Woodlands Road was originally proposed as
Woodland Road .
Even in later years when the development off of Northern Way took place the Eastern part
was intended as Regent Park – Clevedonians however insisted on adding the
ending s to it and it finished up as Regents
Park
So life goes on, I wonder what we will be called in a few
years time, Clevedon-by-Bristol?
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