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Nottinghamshire Archives. In 1939, Nottingham Corporation appointed Violet Walker the first City Archivist; she had been appointed a librarian at Radford in 1926, before moving to Nottingham Reference Library in 1928, where she became librarian in 1936 and oversaw the re-cataloguing of its stock using the Dewey decimal system.
The collection of manuscripts and local archives in the University Library was encouraged initially by G.E. Flack, the first College Librarian. References in minutes of the University Council from the 1930s refer to the University Library's accession of significant gifts and deposits of archival materials, a process which accelerated after the war.
The Mary Hardstaff Homes, are 10 almshouses on Arnold Lane in Gedling, Nottingham. These were built as Almshouses in 1936 for the widows and orphans of miners by the builders Greenwoods of Mansfield. The design by the architect Thomas Cecil Howitt won the RIBA Bronze Medal in 1936 from the Nottingham, Derby and Lincoln Architectural Society. [1]
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This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf , gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Thomas Cecil Howitt, OBE (6 June 1889 – 3 September 1968) was a British provincial architect [1] of the 20th Century. Howitt is chiefly remembered for designing prominent public buildings, such as the Council House and Processional Way in Nottingham, Baskerville House in Birmingham (first phase of the unrealised Civic Centre scheme), Newport Civic Centre, and several Odeon cinemas (such as ...
There are a number of listed buildings in Nottinghamshire.The term "listed building", in the United Kingdom, refers to a building or structure designated as being of special architectural, historical, or cultural significance.
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