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Field Weston
Field Weston (11 August 1826 - 23 July 1919) was an architect based in Nottingham. Life He was born on 11 August 1826 in Radford, Nottingham, the son of John Weston (1796-1843) and Sarah Beeston (1796-1856). He married Francis Taylor (1825-1909) in 1850 in Nottingham and they had the following children *Fanny Weston (b. 1853) *John Weston (b. 1856) (also an architect) *Frank Weston (b. 1859) *Stephen Weston (1861-1937) (poultry farmer) From the 1850s he was in partnership with Richard Stevenson in the building firm of Stevenson and Weston, but there was a legal case following financial irregularities around the construction of the Albert Hall, Nottingham in 1874 and the partnership with Stevenson folded in 1876. In the 1871 census he refers to his occupation as builder, but by the 1881 census it is architect. By 1901 he is living at 12 Bayley Street (now Collington Street), Beeston. He died on 23 July 1919 at his home, Lyndhurst, Linden Grove, Beeston and left an estate valued ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Hall, Nottingham
The Albert Hall is a conference and concert venue situated close to the centre of the city of Nottingham in England. History The original Albert Hall was started in 1873 as a Nottingham Temperance Hall. Watson Fothergill, a local architect won the commission and the builders were Richard Stevenson and Field Weston. The hall was opened on 26 September 1876 by the Mayor of Nottingham even though it was unfinished. The entrance hall and corridors were unfinished, and the gas lighting was of a temporary nature. On completion the building cost around £15,000 (equivalent to £ in ),. It was the largest concert hall in Nottingham and a major venue for political rallies but it had frequent financial crises. It was put on the market in 1901 and was bought by a syndicate of local businessmen for £8,450 (equivalent to £ in ), opening as a Wesleyan Methodist mission in September 1902. Although the outstanding debt was a millstone, the work of the mission went from strength to st ... [...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] |
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] |
1826 Births
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1919 Deaths
Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the coast of the Hebrides; 201 people, mostly servicemen returning home to Lewis and Harris, are killed. * January 2– 22 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army's Caspian-Caucasian Front begins the Northern Caucasus Operation against the White Army, but fails to make progress. * January 3 – The Faisal–Weizmann Agreement is signed by Emir Faisal (representing the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz) and Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, for Arab–Jewish cooperation in the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. * January 5 – In Germany: ** Spartacist uprising in Berlin: The Marxist Spartacus League, with the newly formed Communist Party of Germany and the Independent Social Democ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
