William Arthur Heazell
William Arthur Heazell (7 January 1831 - 22 January 1917) FRIBA was an architect based in Nottingham. History William Arthur Heazell was born on 7 January 1831, the son of Robert Heazell (1799-1867) and Mary (1809-1872). He was educated at Standard Hill Academy, Nottingham. He was articled to Messrs Waler of Nottingham in 1846 and later was assistant to Walker and Rawlinson. He set himself up in practice in Nottingham in 1854, later entering into a partnership with Arthur Ernest Heazell as Heazell and Son. In 1893 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He was President of the Nottingham Architectural Society in 1883. He married Anne Nicholson on 18 June 1861 at Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Square, and they had eight children: *Emily Annie Heazell (1862-1952) *Arthur Ernest Heazell (1863-1941) who later joined him in practice *Francis Nicholson Heazell (1866-1953) *Edward Henry Heazell (1867-1948) *Kate Mary Heazell (1869-1948) *Frederic Willi ...
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9 Weekday Cross, Nottingham (geograph 4111161)
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the Brahmi numerals, beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an Ascender (typography), ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a desc ...
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