Duck Pond, Arnot Hill Park, Arnold, Notts.
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Duck Pond, Arnot Hill Park, Arnold, Notts.
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 12 Jan 2014
A view towards Nottingham Road across a former mill pond. Robert Davison and John Hawkesley, partners in a worsted manufacturing business, owned a mill in Basford. This burnt down in 1791 whereupon they had an even bigger mill built on a plot of ground contiguous to the east side of Nottingham Road, Arnold on an estate known as Arnot Hill. This mill was the biggest in Gt Britain at the time with a workforce of 600 employees and 400 apprentices. The death of Davison, some heavy financial losses in 1809 and the already "encumbered state of the business", caused its closure in the early C19th.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.997636
Longitude
-1.13354