Durdham Downs
Place
Great green plateau above Clifton. Municipal zoo below, doggers about, and plenty of sky for a bird in trouble.
Appears in
Connections
Who is found here
- Ian Corby home of (1 passage)
From the books (3 passages)
…Mr Hawksmoor Perroquet was exceeding loth to make enquiries at the municipal zoo up on the edge of Durdham Downs, lest the panjandrums of that bestiary view him under the specie of an acquisition, and lay rough hands upon him, and by main force incorporate him into the aviary which they maintained in that place. Being nonetheless reluctant to derogate from his duty of reuniting himself with his forsaken consort,…
…directly over the most ill-favoured, slimy kennel in the most impenetrable thicket pertaining to Dogging Woods up on Durdham Downs.
As, reflecting on these grave matters, the Mayor of Bristol flapped back across Durdham Downs, his passage was once more observed by the pair of black eyes, which looked up from the entrails of the corpsed vole into which the black beak in front of them had been poking.