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Evans, Clark And Woollatt
Evans, Clark and Wollatt was an architectural practice based in Nottingham from the early 1920s to 1948. History The practice was established by Robert Evans, John Thomas Clark and John Woollatt by 1921. Robert Evans died in 1927, and John Thomas Clark retired in 1940. In 1948 the practice changed its name and became Evans, Cartwright and Woollatt until 1961 when it was ''Cartwright, Woollatt and Partners''. Works *Fairholme, Lenton Road, Nottingham, 1922 additions *12 Elm Avenue, St John's Grove, Beeston 1922 *Barclays Bank, 2 Chilwell Road, Beeston 1922 *Commercial Union Offices, 10 High Street, Nottingham 1922 * Bromley House Library, Angel Row 1929 new doorway and frontage * Greyfriars Hall Greyfriar Gate, Nottingham 1929 *St Peter's Church, Nottingham 1930 restoration of the south clerestory and south aisle *Nottingham General Hospital 1931 New operating theatre and children’s ward *Victory Club, Station Road, Beeston 1935 *Player Hall, Nottingham High School 1935-36 *S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beeston Town Hall - Geograph
Beeston may refer to: People * Beeston (surname) Places in the United Kingdom * Beeston, Bedfordshire, a hamlet *Beeston, Cheshire, a village and civil parish **Beeston Castle * Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, a suburb of Leeds ** Beeston railway station (West Yorkshire) *Beeston, Norfolk, a village * Beeston Regis *Beeston St Andrew *the former parish of Beeston St Lawrence now part of Ashmanhaugh *the parish of Beeston with Bittering * Beeston Beck (Norfolk), a minor watercourse *Beeston, Nottinghamshire, a town in Nottinghamshire ** Beeston railway station ** Beeston (UK Parliament constituency) ** Beeston Urban District * Beeston Tor, Staffordshire Other uses * Beeston Brewery Company, a brewery based in Beeston, Nottinghamshire (1880–1922) See also *Breaston Breaston ( ) is a large village and civil parish in the Erewash district, in the south-east of Derbyshire and lies approximately east of the city of Derby and west of the city of Nottingham. The popul ... [...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] |
Robert Evans (Jun)
Robert Evans FRIBA (25 February 1863 – 16 August 1927) was an English architect based in Nottingham. History He was born on 25 February 1863, in Nottingham, the son of Robert Evans JP and Sarah Ann Mulcock. He was educated at Rugby School and then articled to the firm of Evans and Jolley, in which his father was a partner. In 1894, when William Jolley left the partnership, father and son set up in partnership as Evans and Son. After the death of his father he was in a partnership with John Thomas Clark and John Woollatt as Evans, Clark and Woollatt. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1905 Robert Evans married Constance Katherine Holland, daughter of Charles Ashby Holland on 19 April 1893 at Hartshill, Staffordshire. They lived in Ravine House, Lenton Road, The Park, Nottingham and had three children: *Gwendolin Mary Evans (b. 1894) *Edith Cecily Evans (b. 1896) *Robert Holland Evans (b. 1904) He died on 16 August 1927 and left an esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evans, Cartwright And Woollatt
Evans, Cartwright and Wollatt was an architectural practice based in Nottingham from 1948 to 1961. History The practice was established in 1948, based at 6 Clarendon Street, Nottingham, and evolved from Evans, Clark and Woollatt after John Thomas Clark retired in 1940. Thomas Nelson Cartwright (1905-1984), formerly of Bromley, Cartwright and Waumsley had joined the practice. They specialised in modernist architecture, mostly built in reinforced concrete. In 1961 the practice changed name again to become Cartwright, Woollatt and Partners. Works *Portland College Mansfield 1949-50 *St Mary’s Church, Beeston Rylands 1951-52 *Floor Malting, Grimsby 1953 *Technical Book Department, Portland Building, University of Nottingham 1953-54 *Tetley’s Brewery Malting House, Leeds 1955 *Norwich Union House, 10-12 South Parade, Nottingham 1957-59 *Office Building, Park Row, Leeds 1958-59 *15 Cavendish Crescent South, The Park Estate, Nottingham 1960 Alterations, additions and conversion o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John's Grove, Beeston
St John's Grove, Beeston is a Conservation area (United Kingdom), conservation area in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. History Following the enclosure of the land surrounding Beeston in 1809 the area of St John's Grove was allotted to the vicar of St John the Baptist Church, Beeston, the parish church. In 1878 the land was acquired from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners by the Beeston Land Society, a group of citizens, who divided the land out into 28 plots of between three-quarters and and set out the wide straight streets. The estate of was laid out with main avenues wide with intersecting streets wide and planted with trees. The first properties erected were Glebe Villas, at 2 and 4 Glebe Street. No 2 was demolished after the Second World War to widen the road as a bus route. The majority of the houses are of Edwardian and late Victorian origin. The Land Society set conditions for the developers including no public houses, and strict building lines which ensured that propertie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilwell Road, Beeston
Chilwell Road, Beeston is street in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. It runs from its junction with High Road, Beeston in Beeston Square to the Hop Pole public house. History The road was constructed as part of the Sawley to Nottingham turnpike road. In around 1820 a local farmer Edward Bonds built Bonds House which later became The Grange, Beeston. It is now Grade II listed. In 1878 a police station was opened on the north side of the road where it remained until the 1970s when it moved into The Grange which is almost opposite. The road underwent commercial and residential development from the 1880s. The most significant landmark constructed is Beeston Methodist Church which was built between 1900 and 1902 and stands on the south side of the road. Until the merger of all four methodist churches in Beeston in 2014, it was known as Chilwell Road Methodist Church. The western end of the road is marked outside the Hop Pole public house where the street sign is adjacent to that for Hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bromley House Library
Bromley House Library (originally the Nottingham Subscription Library) is a subscription library in Nottingham. Premises The library is situated in Bromley House, a Georgian townhouse in Nottingham city centre. This building is grade II* listed and retains many original features. It was built in 1752 as his town house by Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet (1714-1769) of Stoke Hall, East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, a grandson of the founder of Smith's Bank in Nottingham, the oldest known provincial bank in the United Kingdom. He used part as an office for transacting his lucrative business as Collector of the Land Tax. In 1929 Evans, Clark and Woollatt added a new doorway and frontage, allowing the ground floor to be converted for retail use. In the first-floor 'Standfast Library' is a meridian line, dating from 1836 and used to set clocks to Noon 'local' time in the days before railway time or Greenwich Mean Time was introduced as the British standard. The longcase clock in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ocean, Nottingham
Ocean is a nightclub located on Greyfriar Gate in Nottingham, England. The club is used as a student night club for both of the universities in Nottingham. History The building opened as a ''palais de danse'' to replace Victoria Halls in Talbot Street. It was known as ''Greyfriars Hall'' and was opened by the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Walter Wessen, on 8 October 1929. It was designed by the Nottingham architectural practice of Evans, Clark and Woollatt for W. A. Walker at a cost of £30,000. The main dance hall with a floor of by which accommodated 600 dancers. One of the main events of the year was the General Hospital Ball which transferred to this venue in 1929. On 12 May 1940 three men were discovered inside the building by a police officer, and charged with breaking and entering and stealing goods worth over £200 (). It reopened as the ''Astoria Ballroom'' after the Second World War on 29 March 1948. In 1957, the name was changed to the ''Sherwood Rooms''. It was owne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Peter's Church, Nottingham
St Peter's Church, formally The Church of St Peter with St James, is an Anglican parish church in the city centre of Nottingham, England. It is part of the parish of All Saints', St Mary's and St Peter's, Nottingham. The church is Grade I listed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as a building of outstanding architectural or historic interest. History St Peter's is one of the three mediaeval parish churches in Nottingham, the others being St Mary's and St Nicholas. The parish of St. James' Church, Standard Hill, founded in 1807 was united with St Peter's in 1933 and the official title "St Peter with St James" came into being. (St James's was demolished a few years later; some monuments from St James's are preserved in St Peter's.) The church shows traces of many stages of construction from about 1180 onwards (the original church of around 1100 was destroyed by fire). List of incumbents Music St Peter's has a new organ, a choir and a series of Saturday mornin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelham Street, Nottingham
Pelham Street is an historic street in Nottingham City Centre between High Street and Carlton Street. History The street is medieval and was originally known as ''Gridlesmith Gate'' or ''Greytsmythisgate''. ( la, Vicus Magnorum Fabrorum or Vicus Grossorum Fabrorum) The name was changed around 1800 to Pelham street in compliment to the Duke of Newcastle. In 1844 the western end of the street was widened as far as Thurland Street, and the eastern end was completed about 10 years later. Notable buildings *5 and 7, 2 houses now shops ca. 1810. No. 5 has a doorcase by Sutton and Gregory of 1913. *10, Boots the Chemist 1903-04 by Albert Nelson Bromley *Former Nottingham Journal Offices 1860 by Robert Clarke *Ormiston House, 1872 (with additions by Evans, Clark and Woollatt in 1937) *Extension to the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank of 1924-25 by Basil Baily * Thurland Hall public house, 1898-1900 by Gilbert Smith Doughty *27, House, now shop ca. 1800. *Durham Ox public house, 190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beeston Town Hall
Beeston Town Hall is a municipal building in Foster Avenue in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England. The building was formerly the offices of Beeston and Stapleford Urban District Council and is now used by the Redeemer Church. History Following significant population growth, largely associated with the lace and hosiery industries, the area became an urban district in 1894. The early meetings of the new council were held at the Board Schools until the council commissioned its own offices at a site on Church Street in 1897. In the mid-1930s, the council decided that the old council offices were inadequate: the site they selected for the new town hall was open land on the west side of Foster Avenue. The old council officers were demolished during a wave of the redevelopment in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The new town hall was designed by Evans, Clark and Woollatt in the Neo-Georgian style, built by Hofton and Son in red brick with stone dressings at a cost of £18,500 and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hofton And Son
Hofton and Son are a British construction company founded in 1846 which for most of its period of operation has been based in Beeston, Nottingham. History The business started in 1846 with Levi Hofton (1816 - 1870) who operated as a joiner and undertaker in Beeston, Nottingham. His son Robert Gamble Hofton (1848 - 1912) succeeded him in the business and the business moved into general building contracting. Robert's son Henry Robert Hofton (1875 - 1954) followed his father into the business. Henry Robert Hofton was also the architect for many of the domestic properties that the business constructed. Initially Henry Robert Hofton was joined in the business by his son Henry Rex Hofton, but Henry Rex died in 1931 at the age of 27. Henry Robert was later joined by his other son Harold and (John) Richard Shoulder as co-directors and in 1936 the business changed its name from H.R. Hofton and Sons to Hofton and Son Limited and was incorporated on May 27, 1936. Works The company has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
