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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.
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 ...
The Nottingham Blitz was the Nazi German Luftwaffe bombing on the city of Nottingham on the evenings of 8/9 May 1941 as part of a nationwide campaign to disrupt key industrial production, undermine morale and destroy factories, rail networks and infrastructure. During one air raid alone 140 people had been killed and 4,500 houses had been ...
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.
Warehouse, Castle Gate/Stanford Street, Nottingham 1880 [5] (with Howitt) Nottingham School of Art 1881 [10] new roof; Dixon and Bowles Warehouse, Haymarket, Leicester 1881. [11] Carlton Buildings, Heathcote Street, Nottingham 1881 [5] (with Howitt) [12] King John's Arcade, Bridlesmith Gate 1882 with John Howitt [13] 15-17 Broad Street ...
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Location of Mary Hardstaff Homes in Nottinghamshire 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.
Wheeler Gate is a street in Nottingham City Centre between Old Market Square and St Peter’s Square. [1] ... 9 to 23 Premier House by John Howitt ca. 1900 Grade II ...