History
The Eastwood Park Estate is associated with the Jenkinson family of Bristol whose pedigree starts with Anthony Jenkinson, the companion of the traveller & mapmaker Sebastian Cabot.
Jenkinson himself was a traveller famed for attempting the first land crossing from Moscow to China in the late 1500's. The descendants of Anthony Jenkinson have all had distinguished careers and the early members of the family were great travellers and seafaring men.
The family motto "PAREO NON SERVIO" (I obey, I do not serve) can be seen above the stained glass window on the main staircase, along with the family coat of arms.
The Eastwood Estate was bought in the 18th Century by Sir Charles Jenkinson, Seventh Baronet, First Baron of Hawkesbury and the First Earl of Liverpool. His son, the Second Earl, was Prime Minister of England from 1812 to 1827. The peerage became extinct on the death of the Third Earl in 1851, when The baronetcy developed upon his cousin Sir Charles Jenkinson.
The dates below indicate the use of the Estate from 1865 to the present time:
1865 - Sir George Samuel Jenkinson succeeded to the family estates. He built the house at Eastwood, having first pulled down a portion of the house built but never completed by the Second Earl of Liverpool. The house was designed by architect Samuel Whitfield Daukes in 1868.
1916 - The Eastwood Estate was sold by the Trustees of the family to Mr Charles Tucker, a farmer from Frome.
1919 - The estate was passed into the hands of Mr Harry Collett Bolt, a gentleman of Twickenham.
1935 - The Commissioners of His Majesty's Works and Public Buildings purchased 200 acres of the estate including the mansion house.
1936 - The Civilian Anti Gas School was opened by the Home Office and a year later the annexe was built. The name of the school was then changed to The Ministry of Home Security Air Raid Precautions School.
1945 - The school was loaned to the South Western Police District and became No. 7 District Police Training Centre.
1949 - The Home Office resumed possession and courses on Civil Defence were run.
1969 - The Department of Health and Social Security acquired the estate and established the Hospital Engineering Centre.
1970 - On 16 February the first residential course commenced for engineering staff employed in the National Health Service. Amongst NHS personnel, the centre became known, simply, as "Falfield".
1981 - As a result of developing courses for all works disciplines, the Centre was renamed the Hospital Estate Management and Engineering Centre.
1985 - The Centre became part of the National Health Service Training Authority.
1992 - The Avon College of Health assumed management of Eastwood Park as part of a consortium including the East Gloucestershire College of Health. The Centre was renamed Eastwood Park NHS Training & Conference Centre.
1997 - Eastwood Park Training & Conference Centre left the Health Service and joined the private sector under ownership of Fujitsu Services, then known as International Computers Limited (ICL).
2003 - Following a successful Management Buy-Out, ownership passed to Eastwood Park Limited.
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