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Mapperley
Mapperley is a residential and commercial area of north-eastern Nottingham, England. The area is bounded by Sherwood to the north-west, Thorneywood to the south and Gedling to the east. History At various periods the terms 'Mapperley' and 'Mapperley Plains' have been applied to lands, on either side of Woodborough Road (B684), from a point at the junction of Mapperley Road, north-east for a distance of some , to that point where the road forks towards Woodborough village. The stretch of Woodborough Road from Mapperley Road to Porchester Road is called 'Mapperley Plains' on Jackson's map of 1851–66, for example. This section considers the history of the suburb within the present day city boundary. The origins of the city of Nottingham suburb called Mapperley seem to be found in the fourteenth century. Writing in the 1670s about lands in the lordship of Basford (i.e. west of present-day Woodborough Road) which were called ''cornerswong'', Dr Robert Thoroton, notes: Ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Jude's Church, Mapperley
St Jude's Church is a parish church of the Church of England in Mapperley, Nottinghamshire. History The land for St. Jude's Church was given by the banking branch of the Wright family – Charles Ichabod Wright, Henry Smith Wright, Frederick and Theodoria Wright. The trustees of the church were F.B. Gill, Rev. Henry Wright, Rev. J.A. Smith, Frederick Wright and Henry Ann Norman. The foundation stone was laid on 10 April 1877 by William Windley and it was built to a design by Evans and Jolley. The church consisting only of a nave was opened for worship on 29 November 1877 as a daughter church to St. Ann's Church, Nottingham. It was consecrated two years later on 13 November 1879 by Dr. Trollope, Suffragan Bishop of Nottingham. The chancel was added in 1893 to the designs of William Arthur Heazell and the east window of stained glass with images of the Ascension by Samuel Evans was gifted by R. Halford. The flooring was laid with Maw and Co's tiles by A.G. Foss of Mansfield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mapperley, Derbyshire
Mapperley is a village and civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England, situated northeast of Derby and northwest of Ilkeston. In the 2001 census it had a population of 253, increasing to 289 at the 2011 Census. The village is on a loop off the A609 Nottingham to Belper road. A minor road leading to Shipley was closed by Derbyshire County Council in 2007. The village is inaccessible from the rest of Amber Valley Borough by road without first passing through Erewash Borough. The facilities in the village include a church, a C of E primary school and a pub A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term first appeared in England in the late 17th century, to differentiate private ho .... Mapperley Colliery, which was in operation from 1871 until 1965, was formerly a major employer in the area. See also * Listed buildings in Mapperl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mapperley Hospital
Mapperley Hospital was a mental health facility on Porchester Road in Nottingham, England. History The hospital, which was designed by George Thomas Hine using a linear corridor layout, opened as the Nottingham Borough Lunatic Asylum in August 1880. It was extended in 1889 and joined the National Health Service as Mapperley Hospital in 1948. After the introduction of Care in the Community Care in the Community (also called "Community Care" or "Domiciliary Care") is a British policy of deinstitutionalisation, treating and caring for physically and mentally disabled people in their homes rather than in an institution. Institutional c ... in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in December 1994. Today, most of the original buildings still remain, but have been repurposed. The north end of the campus has been renamed "Duncan Macmillan House" and is now used as the headquarters of the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust while the sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mapperley Hall
Mapperley Hall is a country house located at 51 Lucknow Avenue in the Mapperley Park conservation area of Nottingham, England. Built by Ichabod Wright in 1792, it was the home of the Wright family of bankers until the end of the nineteenth century. From about 1900 the building was used as part of the University College Nottingham, the Principal being Professor Amos Henderson, who died in 1922. It was later used for offices and became a Grade II listed building on 12 July 1972. The road to the north of the property is named Mapperley Hall Drive. Background The first occupants were Ichabod Wright II (1767–1862) and his wife Harriet Maria Day (d.1843). Ichabod Wright was a banker, like his father Thomas, in the family bank founded by his grandfather Ichabod Wright I (1700-1777), a former ironmonger and Baltic merchant, in the Long Row, Nottingham in 1761. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham East
Nottingham East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Nadia Whittome of the Labour Party. Members of Parliament MPs 1885–1955 ''Nottingham prior to 1885'' MPs since February 1974 ''Nottingham Central and Nottingham South prior to 1974'' Constituency profile On average earners' incomes are slightly lower than the national average and in 2010 unemployment stood at 7.4%, which was higher than the East Midlands average at the time of 3.6% however the picture is not uniform across all 2011 Census Output Areas, some of which have incomes at the national average or above and together with the affordability of property in the area, those on the national average way or above generally have the ability to save, purchase property or enjoy a high standard of living. Boundaries Historic 1885–1918: The Borough of Nottingham wards of Byron, Manvers, Mapperley, Robin Hood, and St Ann's. 1918–1950: The County Borough of Nottingh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham (UK Parliament Constituency)
Nottingham was a parliamentary borough in Nottinghamshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the British House of Commons, House of Commons from 1295. In 1885 the constituency was abolished and the city of Nottingham divided into three single-member constituencies. History Nottingham sent two representatives to Parliament from 1283 onwards. In the mid eighteenth century it was influenced by the large local landowners the Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, Duke of Newcastle for the Whigs (British political party), Whigs and Lord Middleton for the Tories (British political party), Tories and as a consequence would tend to return MP from each party. The constituency was abolished in 1885 and replaced by Nottingham East, Nottingham South and Nottingham West. Members of Parliament 1295–1640 1640–1885 Notes Election results Elections in the 1830s Ponsonby was appointed Home Secretary and elevated to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gedling, Nottinghamshire
Gedling is a village and former civil parish which gives its name to the larger Borough of Gedling in Nottinghamshire, England. It lies north-east of Nottingham city centre. The parish was abolished in 1935 and absorbed into the urban district of Carlton, which in turn was abolished in 1974 on the creation of borough of Gedling. The population of the Gedling ward at the 2011 census was 6,817 and 111,787 for the district. Gedling was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, and is still a distinct settlement, although residential, commercial and industrial growth in the wider borough of Gedling and the neighbouring city of Nottingham, boroughs of Broxtowe and Rushcliffe and district of Ashfield (as well as the Derbyshire boroughs of Amber Valley and Erewash, which have become increasingly urban around Nottingham) means it can be difficult to distinguish the village of Gedling from the nearby town of Carlton, with which it has become contiguous. History Gedling was first set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Chambers Hine
Thomas Chambers Hine (31 May 1813 – 6 February 1899) was an architect based in Nottingham. Background He was born in Covent Garden into a prosperous middle-class family, the eldest son of Jonathan Hine (1780–1862), a hosiery manufacturer and Melicent Chambers (1778–1845). He was articled to the London architect Matthew Habershon until 1834. In 1837 he arrived in Nottingham and formed a partnership with the builder William Patterson. This business relationship was dissolved in 1849. He worked from 1857 with Robert Evans JP until early in 1867 and thereafter with his son George Thomas Hine until his retirement around 1890. He was nominated as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1878, but this appears to have been voided. Personal life He married Mary Betts (1813–1893) in 1837 and together had seven children surviving to adulthood. Their eldest child, Mary Melicent Hine (1838–1928) became a nurse and founded the Nottingham Children's Hospital on P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of 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 south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham is the legendary home of Robin Hood and to the lace-making, bicycle and Smoking in the United Kingdom, 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. In the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 Census, Nottingham had a reported population of 323,632. 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 of the Nottingham/Derby metropolitan a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gedling (UK Parliament Constituency)
Gedling is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency in Nottinghamshire created in 1983 represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 by Michael Payne (politician), Michael Payne of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. The seat (and its predecessor, Carlton (UK Parliament constituency), Carlton) was safely Conservative until the Labour Party's landslide victory in 1997, when it was won for Labour Party (UK), Labour by Vernon Coaker. Coaker & Labour held Gedling until 2019, when it was regained by the Conservative Party with Tom Randall, but regained the seat in 2024. Boundaries and profile Gedling is a substantial part of Greater Nottingham covering the most populated parts of the borough status in the United Kingdom, borough of Borough of Gedling, the same name; it has mainly affluent, middle-income north eastern suburbs o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Beedham Starr
William Beedham Starr JP (1865- 2 November 1953) was an architect based in Nottingham. History He was born in 1865 in Quorndon, Leicestershire to Thomas Starr (1832-1918) and Arabella Beedham (1833-1921). He married Emily Ida Kirkness in 1890 in Scarborough. In 1891 he was listed as living at 12 Stratford Square, Nottingham. He was a liberal councillor and in 1906 appointed Justice of the Peace for Nottinghamshire. He was articled to Lawrence Bright and then he established himself in business around 1898 with offices in Rutland Chambers, 12 St Peter's Gate, Nottingham. He produced a number of houses in Mapperley Park Estate from 1906 to 1914. Built his own house, Northfield at 470 Mansfield Road on the estate. Had offices at 12 Victoria Street, Nottingham. In 1910 he entered into a partnership with Edwin Benjamin Holmes Hall (1883-1939), and for 29 years they practised as ''W. B. Starr and Hall'', until Hall's death in 1939. He died on 2 November 1953 at 18 Baker Street, Not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
