in the sale at auction of Clapham's remaining land holdings to various buyers that September. Once the Royal Park had been put up for sale in 1871, Clapham remained as its manager for a time, a period in which he got into more legal trouble for allowing betting on games of knurr and spell on the property. The Royal Park itself, which was not offered as a going concern, was finally sold in February 1874 for £16,500, after sale attempts in 1872 and 1873. The lots were described at the time as: "They are situated about one mile from the centre of Leeds in the best locality, and the land unbuilt on is admirably adapted for the sites of residences of a superior class. A very extensive and beautiful view can be obtained from nearly every part of the estate." After the Royal Park The park, consisting of of Clapham's land between Queens Road and Hyde Park Road, was purchased jointly by a group of his mortgagees – William Ingham, an upholsterer, Thomas Hattersley, a spindle maker, and Richard Robinson, a linen merchant, all of Leeds. After a year, Hattersley bought the other two out for £3,333 in 1875. In the same year, he sold off the top 10 acres to the newly established Leeds Horticultural Gardens Company for £13,000 to continue in use as a park, and commissioned the Leeds architect Thomas Ambler to lay out the lower half of the estate for housing. The plan showed a network of streets to receive small terraces mainly parallel to Queens Road, which had not yet been sewered or paved, and a number of plots to receive a better class of houses facing Brudenell Road – the original name of Clapham Road was dropped about this time as the Victorians appeared not to like streets named after businessmen who were failures. The Leeds Horticultural Gardens Company renamed the remaining top half of the Royal Park to the Horticultural Gardens and attempted to keep the ground open and attract new visitors. Its directors included Joseph Conyers, a tanner, Richard Buckton, a manufacturer, Titus Bennett Stead, a druggist, and John Eddison, a well-known land surveyor. The company's purchase was financed by a mortgage from John Rawlinson Ford, a Leeds solicitor. The company built some new facilities as part of its efforts to attract higher numbers of visitors, such as a cruciform-shaped ice rink