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Nottingham Magistrates' Court
Nottingham Magistrates' Court is a magistrates' court in Nottingham, England. History Until 1996, Nottingham magistrates were housed in two separate buildings, the Guildhall and the Shire Hall. In 1996, all magistrates were moved to the new Nottingham Magistrates' Court building, and the old buildings were closed. The Shire Hall subsequently was converted into the Galleries of Justice. The Nottingham Guildhall is occupied by Nottingham City Council. Description The building was designed by the Nottingham County Council Architect's Department with William Saunders Partnership and Cullen, Carter and Hill.Pevsner Architectural Guides. Nottingham. Yale University Press. . It sits on the site of Nottingham Carrington Street railway station and the gateposts still frame the pathway from Carrington Street to the court. There are 18 courtrooms in the main block, with six courtrooms in the Youth and Family block. The complex of buildings also includes the Bridewell Police Station. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham Magistrates Court
Nottingham ( , locally ) is a city and 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 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 Midlands. Its Functional Urban Area, the largest in the East Midlands, has a population of 919,484. The population ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McCraith
Sir John Tom McCraith (1847 – 5 December 1919) was a British Conservative and Unionist politician who served in a range of senior political positions on the Nottingham City Council. Life John Tom McCraith was born in Leicester in 1847, the eldest son of William McCraith (d. 1884) of Southwick, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, an official in the Midland Railway Company, and his wife, Sarah (d. 1897), daughter of James York, of Northamptonshire. His younger brother was Sir James William McCraith.''Walford's County Families'' 1919, p. 861''Nottingham Evening Post'', 5 December 1919, p. 1 At the age of four, he arrived at Nottingham and went on to carry out his education at Goodacre's School in the City before becoming a yarn merchant. During the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Court Buildings In England
A court is any person or institution, often as a government institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law. In both common law and civil law legal systems, courts are the central means for dispute resolution, and it is generally understood that all people have an ability to bring their claims before a court. Similarly, the rights of those accused of a crime include the right to present a defense before a court. The system of courts that interprets and applies the law is collectively known as the judiciary. The place where a court sits is known as a venue. The room where court proceedings occur is known as a courtroom, and the building as a courthouse; court facilities range from simple and very small facilities in rural communities to large complex facilities in urban communities. The practical authority given t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham Crown Court
Nottingham Crown Court, or more formally the High Court of Justice and Crown Court, Nottingham is a Crown Court and meeting place of the High Court of Justice on Canal Street in Nottingham, England. The building also accommodates the County Court and the Family Court. History Until the early 1980s, the Crown Court sat in the Shire Hall on High Pavement. However, as the number of court cases in Nottingham grew, it became necessary to commission a more substantial courthouse for criminal matters. The site selected by the Lord Chancellor's Department on Canal Street was occupied by a row of shops (including a baker's shop owned by the amateur astronomer, Thomas Bush) and an old canal-side factory. The new building was designed by architects, P. Harvard, K. Bates and J. Mansell, on behalf of the Property Services Agency and faced with buff stone. The building was opened in two phases: the first phase opened in 1981 and the second phase opened in 1988. The design involved a glass a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Christine Hammond
Paula Christine Hammond (''née'' ''Barsby'') (13 March 1944 – 25 March 2017) was a British magistrate and businesswoman who was awarded an MBE in 2011 for services to the community of Nottinghamshire. Early life and education Born on 13 March 1944 in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, Paula is the fourth daughter of Mabel (née Tarling) and Percy Barsby. Hammond attended the Grange Primary School then the Long Eaton Grammar School (LEGS) from 1955 to 1961. She organised many reunions for LEGS. Work Hammond's first job was selling broken biscuits at Woolworths. She later worked at the Ministry of Labour before starting the Paula Hammond Playschool which she ran for many years. She also worked in real estate. Magistrate Hammond was a magistrate from 1974–2014. She was only 30 years old and received special dispensation to become a magistrate as the then minimum age was 35. She was Chairman of the Nottinghamshire Bench from 2008–2011. Hammond served as a magistrate in Nottingh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Sherratt (educator)
Dr Brian Sherratt OBE JP FIMgt FRSA is a political science researcher with a particular interest in Whitehall bureaucracy and the role of the permanent secretary. Formerly he was Headmaster (1984–2005) of Great Barr School a secondary school on Aldridge Road in Great Barr, Birmingham, England for children aged 11 to 19. During his time as Headmaster, Great Barr was the largest school in the UK. Acclaim He is acclaimed with making Great Barr School one of the best in the country until his formal retirement from the school in August 2005. Under Sherratt's leadership, Great Barr was noted as a school with very high standards of pupil behaviour and pupil achievement. For these reasons, the school was heavily oversubscribed by parents on first choices. Visiting Great Barr School in November 1999, Sir Chris Woodhead, the then Chief Inspector of Schools, said "You have here an outstanding city comprehensive school – it is one of the most impressive schools I have visited. Great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Slater
Colin Stuart Slater MBE (28 February 1934 – 10 January 2022) was an English sports commentator for BBC Radio Nottingham. Early life and career Slater was born in Bradford, England on 28 February 1934. He started his career as a journalist at local newspapers in Bradford. He later progressed to reporting and commentating on football matches at Notts County in 1959, initially writing match reports for "The Football News" and "The Football Post" before joining Radio Nottingham in 1968. He covered over 2000 matches featuring Notts County for Radio Nottingham, a milestone reached on 17 November 2007 when Notts played Macclesfield Town. During the 1970s, Slater also handled media relations for Nottinghamshire County Council, seeing it through the reorganisation of 1973/74 when the county took over some of the powers of Nottingham city Council. On 24 April 2017, Slater announced that he was to retire from commentary duties for BBC Radio Nottingham although he would remain as the sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Irons
Eric George Irons OBE (1921–2007) was Britain's first black magistrate and a campaigner for equal rights. Early life Born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, he was recruited into the RAF in Jamaica in 1944 and in 1945 visited RAF Syerston but was based at Little Rissington, Bedford. From this visit, he decided he wanted to live in Nottingham. He extended his service with the RAF for a further five years, married a local girl from Nottingham, Nellie Kelham, and settled on Pennyfoot Street. Eric and Nellie went on to raise 6 children together. His mum was a cook and his father was a policeman. Career His lifelong passion for racial equality inspired him to move into public life. Because of the prejudices shown towards black people in the 1950s, Irons set up the first community group, the Colonial Social and Sports Club, at his own house. Irons began work at Chilwell Ordnance Depot in the offices in 1952. Only a handful of black workers were employed at the depot. He began to take up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Evans (architect, 1832–1911)
Robert Evans FRIBA, JP (11 November 1832 – 19 July 1911) was an English architect based in Nottingham. History He was born on 11 November 1832 in West Hallam, Derbyshire, the son of Robert Evans (1802-1864) and Jane Attenborough (1815-1881). He trained as an architect and in the 1850s was taken on as a pupil by Thomas Chambers Hine with whom he formed a partnership in 1857 which lasted until 1867. Evans then set up on his own in Eldon Chambers, with an assistant William Jolley (1837-1919). The partnership of Evans and Jolley was established in 1871 and lasted until 1894. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1888. Robert Evans married Sarah Ann Mulcock on 11 February 1858 in St Martin's Church, Stamford and they had six children: *Edith Mary Evans (1859–1935) *Alice Ann Evans (b. 1862) * Robert Evans Jun. (1863–1927) *Ethel Frances Evans (1865–1951) *Mary Evans (b. 1866) *Dorothy Evans (1875–1958) His son, Robert Evans Jun. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas McCraith
Sir Douglas McCraith, JP (1 January 1878 – 16 September 1952) was a British solicitor, Conservative local politician and sportsperson from Nottingham. Early life McCraith was born on New Year's Day 1878 in Nottingham, the elder son of Sir James William McCraith, a solicitor and prominent Nottingham politician, and his wife, Maria Elizabeth, ''née'' Dickinson."McCraith, Sir Douglas" ''Who Was Who'' (online edition), Oxford University Press, April 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2016. After schooling at Harrow, McCraith went up to , graduating w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Ball (politician)
Sir Albert Ball (20 July 1863 – 27 March 1946) was Mayor of Nottingham and Lord Mayor of Nottingham, and the father of the famous Great War air ace Captain Albert Ball (1896–1917), a recipient of the Victoria Cross. Ball started life as a plumber, and in 1896 was living at 301 Lenton Boulevard (now Castle Boulevard), Nottingham. By the end of the nineteenth century he had risen to become an estate agent, with an office in Nottingham and had moved to Sedgley House, 43 Lenton Avenue, The Park, Nottingham. He was a councillor for the Castle ward of the city and later appointed a justice of the peace. In 1908, he purchased Bulwell Hall with 575 acres and mineral rights for £35,000 (equivalent to £) . In 1914, he retired as a director of the Austin Motor Company. In April 1919 he purchased Papplewick Hall for £136,410 (equivalent to £ in ) . In 1936 he also bought Upton Hall. He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1924 and was Lord of the Manors of Bunny, Bradmore and Tollerton. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Black (Liberal Politician)
Sir Arthur William Black (28 February 1863 – 13 July 1947) was an English lace manufacturer from Nottingham and a Liberal Party politician who served in local government in Nottingham before holding a seat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1918. Career Black was born in Nottingham, the son of William Edward Black. He was educated there before entering into business as a lace manufacturer in 1888, and later became a director Turney Brothers and of the Sceptre Life Association. He was elected in 1895 to the Nottingham Town Council, becoming Sheriff from 1898 to 1899 and Mayor of Nottingham from 1902 to 1903, a Justice of the Peace and chairman of the Nottingham education committee. As Chairman of the Nottingham Free Church Council in 1902 he shared a platform in a demonstration in Nottingham against the Education Bill which was addressed by the future Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. He was a member of Alfred Mosely's Commission of Inquiry into the educational systems of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
