Nottingham - NG3
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Nottingham - NG3
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 17 Jun 2012
Chestnut Grove is now a cul-de-sac created by these gates, whereas the drive beyond the gates actually links to Berkeley Avenue. These gates act to secure one of the entrances/exits to Forest House, a property-with-grounds that has served several masters in the past. The domestic-sized house behind the gates may have been a gate lodge and a porter's lodge in the past. The extensive premises themselves (not visible here) were once the home of Thomas Isaac Birkin, of the lace making dynasty. When he became the 1st Baronet of Ruddington Grange and moved to Ruddington he gave the property away for conversion into a Children's Hospital. It functioned as such (with extensions) until the early 1980s when it became the HQ of Nottinghamshire Area Health Authority and later on the base of Nottingham Health Authority.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.967017
Longitude
-1.150977