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Castle Gate, Nottingham
Castle Gate is an historic street in the centre of the city of Nottingham between Lister Gate and Castle Road. History The early name for the street was Frenchgate, or Franchegate ( la, Vicus Franciscus). Paving works were undertaken in 1752 at a cost of £60 (). The street is noted for its Georgian houses, many of which are listed. The street was bisected in 1958 by the construction of Maid Marian Way, resulting in the loss of several fine properties, including number 35, St Nicholas Rectory of 1886 by Watson Fothergill and number 37 which was St Nicholas’ Parish Rooms. Notable buildings *4, Castle Gate Congregational Chapel *6, Cleaves Hall, 1883 by Parry and Walker. Built as Castle Gate Schools by the Congregational Chapel *10, 12 and 12a former Lace Factory *11, Formerly the Black Lion Inn (demolished) *15, Former Warehouse and Bakery 1897 by William Dymock Pratt *17, Town House *19 Stanford House ca. 1776 *24 to 30, Castlegate House, formerly a Ministry of Transport O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham City Council
Nottingham City Council is the local authority for the unitary authority of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, England. It consists of 55 councillors, representing a total of 20 wards, elected every four years. The council is led by David Mellen, of the majority Labour Party. The most recent elections were held on Thursday 2 May 2019. History Nottingham was an ancient borough. It was reformed under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 to become a municipal borough, and when county councils were established in 1889 the town was administered separately from the rest of Nottinghamshire, being made its own county borough. When Nottingham was awarded city status in 1897 the borough council was allowed to call itself Nottingham City Council. In 1974 Nottingham became a non-metropolitan district under the Local Government Act 1972, becoming a lower tier authority with Nottinghamshire County Council providing county level services in the city for the first time. The city was made a unitary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham City Centre
Nottingham city centre is the cultural, commercial, financial and historical heart of Nottingham, England. Nottingham's city centre represents the central area of the Greater Nottingham conurbation. The centre of the city is usually defined as the Old Market Square, one of the largest surviving town squares in the United Kingdom. Covering about 12,000 square metres, it is within the boundaries of the centuries-old Great Market Place, which covered about 22,000 square metres. A major redevelopment of the Old Market Square was completed in March 2007. Many of the main shopping streets abut the square, which is dominated by Nottingham's city hall. The building's landmark dome can be seen for miles around. Much of the ground floor of the building houses the Exchange Arcade, a boutique shopping centre. A Bohemian quarter of the city known as Hockley has gained popularity in recent years, situated close to the Lace Market area. The northwestern end of the city centre is home to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham
Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robin Hood and to the lace-making, bicycle and Tobacco industry, tobacco industries. The city is also the county town of Nottinghamshire and the settlement was granted its city charter in 1897, as part of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Nottingham is a tourist destination; in 2018, the city received the second-highest number of overnight visitors in the Midlands and the highest number in the East Midlands. In 2020, Nottingham had an estimated population of 330,000. The wider conurbation, which includes many of the city's suburbs, has a population of 768,638. It is the largest urban area in the East Midlands and the second-largest in the Midland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watson Fothergill
Watson Fothergill (12 July 1841 – 6 March 1928) was a British architect who designed over 100 unique buildings in Nottingham in the East Midlands of England, his influences were mainly from the Gothic Revival and Old English vernacular architecture styles. His work dates from 1864 (when he set himself up in practice) to around 1912. His earliest surviving known building dates from 1866. Early life Born Fothergill Watson in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in 1841, he was the son of wealthy Nottingham Lace merchant Robert Watson and Mary Ann Fothergill. He changed his name to Watson Fothergill in 1892 to continue his maternal family name. Family He married Anne Hage in 1867 at St. John's Church, Mansfield. They had the following children: *Marian Watson (1868–1955) *Annie Forbes Watson (1869–1930) *Edith Mary Watson (1871–1936) *Eleanor Fothergill Watson (1872–1946) *Samuel Fothergill Watson (1875–1915) *Harold H Watson (1877-1905) *Clarice Watson (1877–1955) His father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newdigate House, Castle Gate - Geograph
Newdigate is a village and civil parish in the Mole Valley borough of Surrey lying in a relatively flat part of the Weald to the east of the A24 road between Dorking and Horsham, ESE of Guildford and south of London. Neighbouring parishes are Charlwood, North Holmwood, South Holmwood, Leigh and Capel. History Etymology The name of Newdigate refers to a place at the gate or path to a wood. Surviving manuscripts such as manorial rolls, Assize Rolls and Feet of Fines give forms including Newdegate (13th century), Newedegate and Neudegate (15th century) and Nudgate (16th century). The name ''Ewood'' (''Iwode'' in Feet of Fines 1312) occurs in the parish and might derive from Old English for a forest of yew-trees, in which case the 'N' survives from a prefix such as 'in' (''O.E.'' 'on') or 'at the' (''O.E.'' 'be þane'). Alternatively, the word may refer to a 'New wood'. Early history In early history Newdigate was at the western heart of the Weald a much more dense wooded for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Gate Congregational Centre
Castle Gate Congregational Centre is in Nottingham. It is a Grade II listed building. History The congregation formed in the 1650s. The first meeting house on Castle Gate, Nottingham, Castle Gate was established in 1689 under the Act of Toleration 1689, Act of Toleration. The present building was erected in 1863 to designs by the architect Richard Charles Sutton, and opened for worship in 1864. The congregation suffered from some embarrassment in 1866 when Henry Walter Wood, local architect and surveyor petitioned for divorce from his wife on the grounds of her adultery with George Eaton Stanger, surgeon and a deacon of the Chapel. The trial in 1867 lasted three days and was widely reported in the National press. Wood was awarded £3,000 from Stanger in damages. In 1972 the congregation joined the United Reformed Church and three years later merged with St. Andrew with Castlegate United Reformed Church, St. Andrew's United Reformed Church, Goldsmiths Street. In 1980 the congreg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Dymock Pratt
William Dymock Pratt (22 December 1854 – 12 August 1916) was an architect based in Nottingham, England Biography Pratt was born in Sneinton on 22 December 1854, the son of Nathan Pratt of Gedling Lodge in Nottinghamshire. He was articled to W. H. Martin, and then with Adams and Kelly in Leeds. From 1877 to 1884 he was in partnership with James Edwin Truman as Truman and Pratt, at Cauldon Chambers, Long Row, Nottingham. From 1884 he practised alone in Nottingham. On 4 September 1884 he married Lillian Edith Cropper, eldest daughter of Alderman Cropper, of Nottingham. They had two daughters, Murial Edith Amy Pratt (b. 1885) and Gwendoline Ursula Pratt (b.1890). He died on 12 August 1916 at Bleasby, Nottinghamshire, leaving an estate valued at £17,556 11s. 11d. (). Works *Granby Hotel, Carrington Street, Nottingham 1886 with James Edwin Truman * St Matthew's Church, Talbot Street Nottingham 1887 restoration and re-ordering *Bakery, Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham 1890 *Brick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham Castle Gate Hospital
Castle Gate Hospital, also known as 29 & 31, Castle Gate or the Nottingham Hospital for Women, is a former women's hospital in Castle Gate, Nottingham, England. History As a hospital The hospital included an outpatient department which opened on 24 September 1875 and in the first year of opening 364 patients were seen with 2,271 attendances. There were initially only 2 inpatient beds but the number of these had increased to 8 by 1 July 1876, with reports of beds being almost completely filled thereafter for that first year with 33 admissions. All patients had to pay fees with the total revenue of £55 9s. 3d. from outpatients, £42 14s. 6d. from inpatients, making a total of £98 3s. 9d in 1875-1876. In that first year it was reported that there were no deaths. Early references to the Castle Gate hospital named it simply as the Nottingham Hospital for Women. The hospital's opening was met with some "local professional annoyance", with the BMJ noting that "so quietly was it man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stretton
William Stretton (April 1755 - 12 March 1828) was a builder and architect based in Nottingham. Family He was the eldest child of Samuel Stretton and was baptised at Lenton on 20 April 1755. He married Suzanna Lynam, daughter of William Lynam, of Eakring, on 22 June 1778 in Eakring. The marriage produced six children, all of whom were given Christian names starting with “S”. *Stella, October 1779 - 5 November 1818 * Sempronius, 15 May 1781 - 6 February 1842 *Severus, 7 November 1783 - 19 December 1785 *Salcia, born December 1784 *Sabina, born July 1787 *Severus William Lynam Stretton May 1793 - 22 November 1884 He died in his house at Lenton Priory on 12 March 1828. His death was announced in the Nottingham Journal “On Wednesday, the 12th inst, in the 73 rd year of his age, after a long and painful affliction, sustained with true Christian fortitude and resignation, William Stretton, Esq., of Lenton Priory. Words would but faintly convey the deep grief which his irre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Children, Nottingham
The Royal Children, located in Castle Gate is a one of Nottingham’s oldest public houses first recorded in 1799. History The inn is said to be named after the children of Princess Anne, the daughter of King James II. When his reign was failing, Anne took refuge in Nottingham, arriving on 1 December 1688. The Princess with Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough and Lady Berkeley, attended by the Bishop of London Henry Compton and the Earl of Dorset remained a few days in Nottingham. Tradition has it that her children were given refuge at the inn. However, none of her children born before the visit were still alive and her next child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester Prince William, Duke of Gloucester (24 July 1689 – 30 July 1700), was the son of Princess Anne (later Queen of England, Ireland and Scotland from 1702) and her husband, Prince George of Denmark. He was their only child to survive infanc ... was not born until 8 months after her visit to Nottingham. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newdigate House
Newdigate House is a Grade II* listed building on Castle Gate, Nottingham. The house was built for Thomas Charlton the younger, of Chilwell. He sold it in 1683 to Samuel Staples of Nottingham who leased it to Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard, who was effectively kept prisoner in it from 1705 to 1711 after defeat in the Battle of Blenheim in 1704. In 1716 the house was sold to Thomas Newdigate, the 6th son of Sir Richard Newdigate, 1st Baronet, of Arbury Hall, Warwickshire. He commissioned Francis Foulgham to make the wrought-iron screen and gates which survive at the front of the house, enclosing the court yard. It was lived in by subsequent members of the Newdigate family until 1790 when it was sold to Mrs Thomas Wright. She arranged for William Stretton William Stretton (April 1755 - 12 March 1828) was a builder and architect based in Nottingham. Family He was the eldest child of Samuel Stretton and was baptised at Lenton on 20 April 1755. He married Suzanna Lynam, dau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille D'Hostun, Duc De Tallard
Camille d'Hostun de la Baume, duc de Tallard (14 February 1652 – 20 March 1728) was a French noble, diplomat and military commander, who became Marshal of France. Military career Tallard was granted a commission in the French army at the age of 15.Falkner: ''Blenheim 1704: Marlborough's Greatest Victory,'' p. 104 He later served under the prince de Condé in the Netherlands, and from 1674, under Turenne in Alsace. He was promoted ''maréchal de camp'' in 1678, and served in the Nine Years' War (1688–1697). His friendship with King Louis XIV ensured a position of authority. After the war he served for two years as ambassador to the Court of St. James's, where his exceptional knowledge of European political affairs proved highly valuable. When King James II died in September 1701, King Louis recognised James's son as his successor to the throne of England. Consequently, King William III expelled Tallard from London in 1702. Tallard's military career reached its height during th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
