Nazareth Road, Dunkirk, Nottingham

Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 30 Jan 2016

This cherry tree and a stone tablet on the ground beneath it exist as a memorial to the work of the Congregation of the Poor Sisters of Nazareth who looked after children (in a children’s home) and the elderly in a combined religious and care ‘complex’ here between 1880-2002. In the early 2000s the Congregation’s financial difficulties made selling the site a necessity. The sale was completed in 2005 and all the buildings, with the exception of “Priory House” - an early C19th castellated house behind the photographer - were demolished and the area turned into an up-market housing estate. The house has been converted into an apartment block. There is a branch of Nazareth Road behind the photographer’s left shoulder (a cul-de-sac) that peters out within a matter of seconds. Pedestrians and cyclists can however, continue into Old Church Street using a footpath. This reaches the Priory Church of St Anthony within a minute or two.

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