Howard Davis Park

The park was bought by Jerseyman Thomas Benjamin Davis after it was put on the market for £25,000 in 1937. The park is named in memory of his son who died during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. It is a flower garden, playground, concert hall and sun-trap, Howard Davis Park is the one slice of quiet greenery in the Island’s traffic-filled town centre.  There is also an allied war cemetery that came about as a direct result of the sinking of a British warship, H.M.S. Charybdis, some miles to the west of Guernsey on October 3rd 1943.