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Frenchay Community, UK

Elliott Avenue

3/11/2013

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Elliott Avenue is named after Charles Hugh Babington Elliott, author of 'Winterbourne, Gloucestershire', who was born at Winkfield Vicarage, Windsor, on 11 March 1852.

He came to Bristol in 1884 and in 1898 bought Cliff Court, Frenchay. He lived there until it was sold and demolished to build Cliff Court  Drive in the 1950s. The family then moved to Bradfords House next door to the former vicarage.  His entire career was spent in education as HM Inspector.

He retired in 1912 but led a busy life for many years after. His book on the history of  Frenchay was published in 1936, and has come to be recognized as  the most important and comprehensive history of  Winterbourne. It is available to buy at Frenchay Museum. Charles died in 1943 and was buried in Frenchay Parish Graveyard.

Charles Elliott and his wife Annie Beatrice had two daughters, Mary – known as Molly – and Nancy.

Molly was born on 1 March 1896. Her life was spent in Frenchay and she interested herself in all kinds of local activities. She became the first woman church warden in 1940, a post she held successfully for 22 years.

She helped to run the Girls Friendly Society (GFS) and in 1927, Molly and four of her GFS friends toured the Lake District in a motorised caravan named Princess Mary. Her record of the trip and photographs of the caravan are on display in the museum. Molly died in March 1978 and is buried in Frenchay Parish Graveyard.

Nancy was born on 23 October 1897. Like her sister, Molly, she joined the Volunteer Aid Detachment during the Great War and worked as a nurse in the Military Hospital at Cleve Hill, Downend. She served on the Parochial Council for many years and was active in the GFS.

She died in July 1984 and was buried in the Frenchay Parish Graveyard.

 

Carol Thorne

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Diana Rust
20/4/2014 07:30:39 am

Why no mention of his son, Charles Aubrey Babington Elliott, born 9th Sept 1894? (See Frenchay Museum archives roll of honour for men born or resident in C.P. of Winterbourne, Frenchay div, serving king & country in First World War. See also Leicestershire Regiment - http://record-office-catalogue.leics.gov.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='R934')

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Terry James
6/9/2015 10:31:48 pm

Cliff court was demolished in the late 1960 's

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Brian Simpson
29/10/2015 12:18:16 pm

I think Terry James is right I remember it derelict in 1966.In the garage were lots of xrays and specimen jars!

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