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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.
This is a list of archives in the United Kingdom. As of 2009 [update] there were 122 national, 654 local, 328 university, 1,224 special and 61 business archives. [ 1 ]
Manuscript and archive holdings include the papers of leading Nottinghamshire families and their estates, the records of local businesses and organisations, the personal papers of political, diplomatic, literary, scientific and academic figures, as well as some of the historical records of the university and its predecessor, University College Nottingham.
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 ...
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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.
The Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, generally known as the Thoroton Society, is Nottinghamshire’s principal historical and archaeological society. [1] It was established in 1897, and takes its name from Dr Robert Thoroton who published the first county history of Nottinghamshire in 1677. It is a registered charity.
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.