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Wollaton Road, Beeston
Wollaton Road, Beeston runs north from its junction with High Road, Beeston to Derby Road. History In 1853 a baptist chapel on the road was purchased by the Primitive Methodists and in 1882 they rebuilt the chapel in its current form. The street is dominated by the four-storey Anglo Scotian Mills building built in 1892 in the crenellated gothic style by the architect James Huckerby for F Wilkinson as a lace and shawl factory. It is Grade II listed In 1932 the development along the road was such that it became necessary to renumber the houses. As an example, the terrace of 12 houses between Middleton Street and Clinton Street numbered 63 to 85 became 101 to 123. In 1937 the council investigated proposals to extend Wollaton Road from its junction with Derby Road along the footpath to Wollaton village, but this project was not proceeded with. In 1939 Beeston and Stapleford Urban District Council provided two public air raid shelters on Wollaton Road with accommodation for 50 peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wollaton Road Methodist Church, Beeston
Wollaton Road Methodist Church, Beeston was a Methodist church on Wollaton Road, Beeston, Nottinghamshire from 1853 until 2014. History The church was first located on Wollaton Road in 1853 when the congregation purchased a Particular Baptist Chapel on Wollaton Road, Beeston for £170 (). In 1857 the chapel was prospering enough for the congregation to purchase a new pipe organ from Kirkland and Jardine of Manchester which was opened on Whit Sunday of that year. The foundation stones of the current building were laid on 3 August 1882 and the building was significantly enlarged and a new schoolroom was also built attached to the chapel. This cost the sum of £1,200 (). As of 2014, the church merged with the congregation at Chilwell Road Methodist Church Beeston Methodist Church (formerly Chilwell Road Methodist Church) is a church in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. History The Beeston Wesleyan Methodist congregation started around 1798. By the early 20th century, the congregation ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broxtowe Borough Council
Broxtowe refers to a number of geographic entities, current and historic, in Nottinghamshire, England: * Broxtowe, Nottingham, a housing estate in Apsley ward, within the City of Nottingham * Broxtowe (UK Parliament constituency), the constituency with similar boundaries to the borough * Borough of Broxtowe Broxtowe is a local government district with borough status in Nottinghamshire, England, west of the City of Nottingham. The population of the district as taken at the 2011 Census was 109,487. It is part of the Nottingham Urban Area. Broxtowe ..., a local government area in south west Nottinghamshire * Broxtowe Wapentake, a previous division of the county, including, but larger than, the current borough {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Road, Beeston
High Road, Beeston is a pedestrianised shopping street in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. It runs from Beeston Square to Humber Road. History The road was constructed as part of the Sawley to Nottingham turnpike road. In the 19th century, it was on the upper side of the village of Beeston and gained its name, High Road by the middle of the 19th century. By the end of the 19th century it was the principal shopping street, and has remained so into the 21st century. In 1908, Ernest Anthony Bush, the surveyor to Beeston Urban District Council renumbered the properties on the High Road. Starting in 1965, the western end of the street in Post Office Square was redeveloped. All of the buildings on the south side of the street 2-10, including the National Provincial Bank which was only 30 years old, were demolished . In 1987 a sculpture of a beekeeper commissioned by Broxtowe Borough Council and designed by Sioban Coppinger was installed in the street. In 1989 the council installed a seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglo Scotian Mills
The Anglo Scotian Mills is former lace factory in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. It is a Grade II listed building. History The firm was established by Francis Wilkinson (1846-1897) in the 1870s in Beeston. The original mill buildings were destroyed by a fire on 29 April 1886. The falling walls of the mill destroyed several cottages and the damage was estimated at £300,000 (). Six years later, on 30 April 1892, another fire broke out which destroyed the mill. The damage this time was estimated at £100,000 (). The current building was erected on Wollaton Road, Beeston in 1892. The architect was James Huckerby of The City, Beeston. In 1893, as a consequence of the strike by coal miners at Wollaton, Trowell Moor and Clifton, the mill owners were forced to reduce their operating hours to eight per day to conserve stocks of coal which consequently reduced the wages paid to 1,000 workers. On the death of Francis Wilkinson in 1897, the business was taken over by his older brother George W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Huckerby
James Huckerby (1826 – 25 March 1900) was a 19th-century builder and architect based in Beeston, Nottingham. History He was born in 1826 in Long Clawson, Leicestershire, the son of James Huckerby (1804-1887) and Sarah Swain (1804-1888). On 18 July 1854 he married Mary Ann Shrewsbury, eldest daughter of Thomas Shrewsbury in St John the Baptist Church, Beeston. He was a builder who also acted as a Clerk of Works and Architect for local businessmen in Beeston. He died on 25 March 1900 at his residence 8 The City, Beeston, Nottingham and left an estate valued at £413 17s 4d. (). Works *4 houses, Middleton Street, Beeston, Nottingham 1887 *Pair of villas, 13-15 Hampden Street, Beeston, Nottingham 1887 *Pair of villas, Thornhill Street (now Imperial Road), Beeston, Nottingham 1887-88 *Oban House, 8 Chilwell Road, Beeston ca. 1890 (attributed) *House, Cromwell Street, Beeston, Nottingham 1890 *2 Pairs of Villas, Willoughby Street, Beeston, Nottingham 1891 *Seven houses, 1-11 Clin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grade II Listed
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland. The term has also been used in the Republic of Ireland, where buildings are protected under the Planning and Development Act 2000. The statutory term in Ireland is " protected structure". A listed building may not be demolished, extended, or altered without special permission from the local planning authority, which typically consults the relevant central government agency, particularly for significant alterations to the more notable listed buildings. In England and Wales, a national amenity society must be notified of any work to a listed building which involves any element of demolition. Exemption from secular listed building control is provided for some buildings in current use for worship, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beeston And Stapleford Urban District
Beeston and Stapleford was an urban district in Nottinghamshire, England, from 1935 to 1974. It was created by a County Review Order. Beeston had previously been part of Beeston Urban District itself, to which was added the entirety of the Stapleford Rural District, consisting of the parishes of Bramcote, Chilwell, Stapleford and Toton. The urban district bordered the county borough of Nottingham in the north west, two disconnected parts of the Basford Rural District to the north and south, and to the west the South East Derbyshire Rural District and Long Eaton in Derbyshire. The council built itself Beeston Town Hall on Foster Avenue in Beeston at a cost of £18,500 () designed by the architectural firm of Evans, Clark and Woollatt which opened on 24 March 1938. Since 1974 it has formed part of the Broxtowe borough. Chairmen of the council *W. Ireland 1935 - 1936 *Alfred Redwood 1936 - 1937 *W.V. Potts 1937 - 1938 *J. Taylor 1938 - 1939 *Fitzherbert Wright 1939 - 1940 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Walker (architect And Surveyor)
Lieut-Colonel Herbert Walker FRIBA, M Inst CE, FSI, (1846 - 23 November 1937) was an architect, surveyor and civil engineer based in Nottingham from 1870 to 1923. Life He was born in 1846, the son of George Frederick Walker (1800 - 1857) and Eliza Dutton (1807 - 1875). He studied in the office of his brother Samuel Dutton Walker from 1860 - 1866. He was then articled to Borough Engineer Marriott Ogle Tarbotton from 1866 - 1870 and was engineer and surveyor to Basford Sanitary Authority. When Basford was merged with Nottingham he started his own practice in Nottingham in 1870. He had offices in Newcastle Chambers on Angel Row until around 1907 when he moved to Albion Chambers in King Street. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1889. He married Annie Sophia Turner, youngest daughter of John Turner of Edwalton, on 25 January 1872 at Holy Rood Church, Edwalton and they had the following children: *Ethel Walker (b. 1873) *Mabel Elizabeth Walk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
