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Pelham Street, Nottingham
Pelham Street is an historic street in Nottingham City Centre between High Street and Carlton Street. History The street is medieval and was originally known as ''Gridlesmith Gate'' or ''Greytsmythisgate''. ( la, Vicus Magnorum Fabrorum or Vicus Grossorum Fabrorum) The name was changed around 1800 to Pelham street in compliment to the Duke of Newcastle. In 1844 the western end of the street was widened as far as Thurland Street, and the eastern end was completed about 10 years later. Notable buildings *5 and 7, 2 houses now shops ca. 1810. No. 5 has a doorcase by Sutton and Gregory of 1913. *10, Boots the Chemist 1903-04 by Albert Nelson Bromley *Former Nottingham Journal Offices 1860 by Robert Clarke *Ormiston House, 1872 (with additions by Evans, Clark and Woollatt in 1937) *Extension to the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank of 1924-25 by Basil Baily * Thurland Hall public house, 1898-1900 by Gilbert Smith Doughty Captain Gilbert Smith Doughty (1862 – 18 December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham Journal
The ''Nottingham Journal'' was a newspaper published in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands in England. During that time, the paper went through several title changes through mergers, take-overs, acquisitions and ownership changes. History Nottingham's first newspaper was probably ''The Weekly Courant'', published by William Ayscough in August, 1712. It was followed by The ''Nottingham Post'' in 1716. In 1723 Ayscough took over the Post and later that year he published ''The Nottingham Weekly Courant''. ''The Courant'' lasted until 1769, when Samuel Cresswell bought it and in 1787 changed its name to ''The Nottingham Journal''. In 1775 he was joined by George Burbage and ''Cresswell and Burbage's Nottingham Journal'' came into existence. Later Burbage became sole owner. On his death it was purchased by George Stretton. On Stretton's retirement in 1832 it was purchased by John Hicklin and Job Bradshaw. In 1841 it became Bradshaw's property. In 1860 they occupied new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham City Council
Nottingham City Council is the local authority for the Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, England. It consists of 55 councillors, representing a total of 20 Wards of the United Kingdom, wards, elected every four years. The council is led by David Mellen, of the majority Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. The most recent elections were held on 2019 Nottingham City Council election, Thursday 2 May 2019. History Nottingham was an ancient borough. It was reformed under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 to become a municipal borough, and when county councils were established in 1889 the town was administered separately from the rest of Nottinghamshire, being made its own county borough. When Nottingham was awarded city status in the United Kingdom, city status in 1897 the borough council was allowed to call itself Nottingham City Council. In 1974 Nottingham became a non-metropolitan district under the Local Government Act 1972, becoming a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham City Centre
Nottingham city centre is the cultural, commercial, financial and historical heart of Nottingham, England. Nottingham's city centre represents the central area of the Greater Nottingham conurbation. The centre of the city is usually defined as the Old Market Square, one of the largest surviving town squares in the United Kingdom. Covering about 12,000 square metres, it is within the boundaries of the centuries-old Great Market Place, which covered about 22,000 square metres. A major redevelopment of the Old Market Square was completed in March 2007. Many of the main shopping streets abut the square, which is dominated by Nottingham's city hall. The building's landmark dome can be seen for miles around. Much of the ground floor of the building houses the Exchange Arcade, a boutique shopping centre. A Bohemian quarter of the city known as Hockley has gained popularity in recent years, situated close to the Lace Market area. The northwestern end of the city centre is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Richard Eckett Sutton
Ernest Richard Eckett Sutton (1860 - 19 July 1946) FRIBA (also Richard Ernest Eckett Sutton) was an English architect based in Nottingham. Career He was born the son of Richard Charles Sutton and was articled to him in 1876. Later he was assistant to Alfred Waterhouse and then Sir Arthur William Blomfield. He started in independent practice in Nottingham in partnership with his father in 1895, and was then in partnership with Frederick William Charles Gregory from 1904 to 1914. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context. In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements. Within the context of higher educationa ... on 9 January 1905. He was president of the Nottinghamshire Architectural Society from 1912-1913 and first president of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Architectural Society from 1913-191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Nelson Bromley
Albert Nelson Bromley (15 July 1850 – 16 August 1934) was an English architect based in Nottingham."Brodie" (2001), pg.263 History He was born in Stafford on 15 July 1850, the son of Charles Nelson Bromley, a surgeon (1817–1853) and Emma Bakewell (1819–1907). His father died two years later and the family moved to Nottingham, where they lived with Bromley's maternal uncle, the architect and surveyor Frederick Bakewell. Bromley was educated in Nottingham, and then at Mr George Shipley's academy, a boarding school in Lincoln. In 1867 he was articled to his uncle but by 1871 he was back in Lincoln and working as an ''architect's clerk'' in Henry Goddard's architectural practice. Then from 1872 he spent the next 14 months travelling in Greece, Turkey and the United States. He returned to London and 1874 was working in the office of Charles Barry, junior. He then returned to Nottingham and 1875 he was taken into partnership with his uncle. Within two years Bakewell went in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Clarke (architect)
Robert Clarke (1819 – 11 December 1877) was an architect based in Nottingham. History Born in 1819, Robert Clarke was the son of Mr. Clarke of ''Stoney and Clarke''. He married Frances Sympson at St Martin’s Church, Lincoln, on 12 May 1841. He studied architecture under William Adams Nicholson in Lincoln. He went into a partnership with Edmund Francis Law in Northampton in 1848. This partnership was short-lived, and dissolved on 31 July 1849. In 1852, he established himself as an independent architect back in Nottingham. He set up in business in Nottingham with offices in Grosvenor Place, Parliament Street. In 1854 he moved to Shakespere Street, opposite Angelo Terrace. His son, Robert Charles Clarke (1843-16 February 1904) joined his father to form Robert Clarke & Son. He died on 11 December 1877 in Sneinton, Nottingham and left a small estate to his widow, Frances Clarke. Works * Littlemore Lunatic Asylum, Oxfordshire 1843 *Building to house the Bunker’s Hill Weighin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evans, Clark And Woollatt
Evans, Clark and Wollatt was an architectural practice based in Nottingham from the early 1920s to 1948. History The practice was established by Robert Evans, John Thomas Clark and John Woollatt by 1921. Robert Evans died in 1927, and John Thomas Clark retired in 1940. In 1948 the practice changed its name and became Evans, Cartwright and Woollatt until 1961 when it was ''Cartwright, Woollatt and Partners''. Works *Fairholme, Lenton Road, Nottingham, 1922 additions *12 Elm Avenue, St John's Grove, Beeston 1922 *Barclays Bank, 2 Chilwell Road, Beeston 1922 *Commercial Union Offices, 10 High Street, Nottingham 1922 *Bromley House Library, Angel Row 1929 new doorway and frontage * Greyfriars Hall Greyfriar Gate, Nottingham 1929 *St Peter's Church, Nottingham 1930 restoration of the south clerestory and south aisle *Nottingham General Hospital 1931 New operating theatre and children’s ward *Victory Club, Station Road, Beeston 1935 *Player Hall, Nottingham High School 1935-36 *S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham And Nottinghamshire Bank
The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank was a joint stock bank which operated from its headquarters in Nottingham from 1834 to 1919. History It was established in Nottingham as the Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Banking Company. The initial capital was £500,000 (). The bank began trading in Pelham Street in central Nottingham on 19 April 1834 under the management of Peter Watt, a Scottish banker. By the 1840s the bank's London agents were the London and Westminster Bank. In 1841 the bank ran into difficulty but shareholders injected money and it survived. A new head office building was constructed in Nottingham on Thurland Street in 1881. It was built to the designs of the architect Watson Fothergill Watson Fothergill (12 July 1841 – 6 March 1928) was a British architect who designed over 100 unique buildings in Nottingham in the East Midlands of England, his influences were mainly from the Gothic Revival and Old English vernacular archit .... In 1884 the bank assumed li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil Baily
Captain Basil Edgar Baily FRIBA (14 January 1869 – 1942) was an architect based in Nottingham. Much of his earlier work had to do with nearby churches. Background and family Basil Baily was born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, son of the architect Charles Baily. He married first May Clayton and lived in Bulcote Manor. He went on to marry Eleanor Corah in 1928. On his death in 1942, he was living at Bowyers Court, Wisborough Green, Suffolk. Architect career He was articled in 1885 in the offices of Martin and Hardy, Brewing and Malting engineers, then Sir Ernest George and Harold Ainsworth Peto. He worked independently in Newark-on-Trent from 1891, and then in partnership with Arthur Brewill from 1894 until 1922. He was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects on 2 December 1901. Later he formed a partnership with Albert Edgar Eberlin as ''Baily & Eberlin''. Buildings *New Bolsover model village, Old Bolsover, Derbyshire 1891–1894 * St Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thurland Hall Public House
The Thurland Hall is a Grade II listed public house in Nottingham. History The Thurland Hall Vaults public house was built on Pelham Street in the 1830s. It was named after the house of the Earls of Clare which had formerly stood on this site. King James I stayed at Thurland Hall on 17 August 1614. When the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway built its extension through Nottingham, the pub was subject to compulsory purchase, and it was rebuilt between 1898 and 1900 for Ezekiel Levy and Henry Franks, licensed victuallers from London to the designs of local architect Gilbert Smith Doughty Captain Gilbert Smith Doughty (1862 – 18 December 1909) CE was an architect based in Nottingham and Matlock. History Doughty was born in Nottinghamshire in 1862, the son of Edwin Doughty and Annie Smith. He was a pupil at University School .... It was restored in the 1990s and again in 2011. References {{Nottingham Places of Interest , state=autocollapse Pubs in Notting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Smith Doughty
Captain Gilbert Smith Doughty (1862 – 18 December 1909) CE was an architect based in Nottingham and Matlock. History Doughty was born in Nottinghamshire in 1862, the son of Edwin Doughty and Annie Smith. He was a pupil at University School, Nottingham and then studied at the Nottingham School of Art and in 1879 his design for a mantlepiece and glass was included in the annual exhibition. On 12 April 1894 he married May Edgcombe Rendle in Winslow. He served for a time in the Robin Hood Rifles, and in 1894 was appointed a captain. He resigned his commission on 13 May 1896. In 1893 he took over the practice of George Edward Statham in Matlock. He died in 1909 of alcoholism at his home in Prebend Mansions, Chiswick. Works *New Lace Factory, Ilkeston Junction. 1886–87 *St Paul's Church, Hyson Green Nottingham. 1889–91 Addition of the chancel. * Smedley's Hydro, Matlock 1892–94 new heating facility and baths (completed from plans by Statham) *The Borough Club, King St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Dennis Martin
George Dennis Martin, F.S.I. (20 December 1847 - 26 April 1915) was an English architect based in London. History He was born on 20 December 1847, the son of George and Cordelia Martin and baptised on 21 January 1848 at St Olave's Church, Southwark. He was educated at Dulwich College and South Kensington School of Art. He was articled to the architect Charles Laws in London. He started in independent practice in 1872. He was Architect and Surveyor to the Central London Properties’ Syndicate. In partnership with Edward Keynes Purchase (1862-1923) he was architect and director of the Bedford Court Mansion Company from 1883 to 1895. He was a Fellow of the Surveyor’s Institution (FSI) He married Jane Sim, daughter of James Sim, at St George’s Church, Hannover Square, London, on 23 February 1876. He died at 8 Bristol House, Southampton Row, London on 26 April 1915 and left an estate of £180 6s 6d () to his widow. Works *Craven House, 16 Northumberland Avenue, London 1885 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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