Nottingham - NG3 (Alexandra Park Area)
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Nottingham - NG3 (Alexandra Park Area)
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 10 Jun 2012
A few metres further up this section of Woodborough Road, just after the right-hand Hungerhill Road turning, are the Lambley Almshouses. Turner, D., believes these replacement almshouses to have designed by Arthur Brown (1851-1935), Nottingham Corporation’s Engineer. (See http://www.theworksofwatsonfothergill.weebly.com ) This particular row, built in 1897 and consisting of twelve single-bedroomed dwellings, was built as a replacement for The Lambley Hospitals (i.e. almshouses) that existed at the summit of Derby Road. It seems that a charitable body - funded by the wealth of an estate owner in Lambley, Notts - financed the construction of the original complex of 22 rooms and various communal facilities in Derby Road for deserving burgesses, or their widows. They were however, replaced c.1896.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.968128
Longitude
-1.142915