Old photos of nottingham england8/16/2023 It stood on the east side of Carlton Road in Sneinton. Nottingham’s General Lunatic Asylum, also known as The County Lunatic Asylum, was officially opened by the Borough Corporation for town and county pauper patients, with beds for 400 patients. William Abednego ‘Bendigo’ Thompson was born in Nottingham, later to become the champion bare knuckle prize fighter of all England. Clumber Street was previously called Cow Lane, as cattle used to be herded along it into the old town market. 1811Ĭow Lane, Nottingham, was widened by 16ft and renamed Clumber Street, after a gift of land from the Duke of Newcastle. Following a fairly peaceful demonstration of framework knitters in Nottingham’s Market Place, the crowd marched to Arnold and destroyed 63 knitting frames over the next few days further disturbances resulted in many more frames being destroyed around Nottinghamshire and into Derbyshire. St James’ Church was built on Standard Hill, Nottingham. This scheme delivered Britain’s first high pressure ‘constant supply’, preventing contamination entering the supply of clean water mains. Educated at Nottingham High School, he was engineer to the Nottingham Gas Light and Coke Company and Nottingham Waterworks Company for more than half a century, completing, early in his career, the Trent Bridge waterworks (1831). Thomas Hawksley, one of the leading 19 th century British water engineers, was born in Arnot Hill House, Arnold, near Nottingham. The supply of whale oil was kept under the steps of the old Guildhall in Weekday Cross. These were probably only in use for a few years until replaced by gas lamps. The first street lighting in Nottingham used whale oil and standards were set up throughout the town using thick globular-shaped lanterns of glass partially filled with oil and a floating wick. Green’s Windmill in Sneinton was built by the father of notable scientist and mathematician George Green. Henry Kirke White, the Nottingham born poet, died at the very young age of 21. 1806Īn extension to the Nottingham House of Correction on St John’s Street was completed. The Borough of Nottingham ordered that the ground on which the old Malt Cross had stood, until demolished in 1804, should be cleared and repaired, and that the pump be taken away. John Townsend opened for business in a little shop at 9 Long Row, Nottingham that would eventually become Jessop & Son department store. The Malt Cross was first mentioned in 1495, when it was a long shaft standing on ten steps, but in 1711 this early cross was replaced by a roofed structure of six columns on a base of four steps and surmounted by sundials. It had stood in the Market Place at the foot of St James’s Street for centuries and had been used in the 15th and 16th centuries to announce historic events, and sometimes for public whippings. Nottingham’s old Malt Cross was demolished. Richard Parkes Bonington was born in Arnold, the son of a governor of Nottingham prison, Bonington was a popular landscape painter of the early 19th century, specialising in miniatures. 1802Ī fever ward was built at Nottingham General Hospital due to widespread infectious diseases such as typhoid, typhus, tuberculosis and cholera. Nottingham’s population was about 29,000. Return to the introduction and contents page Go back to Early Modern Nottingham (1500 – 1799) ‘Nottingham Market Place’ by William Goodacre c1827 © Nottingham City Museums and Galleries 1800
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