W G Grace was a cricketer of renown who used to play at Downend Cricket club but I haven't been there today. Today I have been to a very substantial property built in the Georgian era and probably owned by various ‘well to do gentlemen’, but sadly one of the last owners let this house and go to rack and ruin. However, some 25 or so years ago it was bought and renovated into three very large flats, where I suspect the owners have stayed there for a long periods of time. They stay there because it is a delightful spot opposite Page Park, which incidentally has its hundredth year birthday later in the year in July. It is all so within about five minutes easy level walk of Staple Hill High Street which I often think of as being far more interesting than Clifton, it's a really buzzy area full of real people buying and selling, but without Clifton's problems, and you can park! Not only is this a spacious flat converted within a grade II listed property, the building itself stands in pleasant lawned grounds that would be an excellent place on which to play cricket were it not for the mature trees which surround it…   more »