Hucknall Road, Nottingham
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Hucknall Road, Nottingham by David Hallam-Jones as part of the Geograph project.
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Hucknall Road, Nottingham
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 13 Feb 2016
The Hucknall Road/Haydn Road crossroads are a few metres behind the photographer. Hucknall Road, i.e. the A611 stretches ahead in the direction of City Hospital. The two-storey 1930s block on the right was formerly a public house known as The Quorn Hotel and later as The Hubb public house and gig venue. Following the fatal stabbing of Malakai McKenzie in its car park in 2012 business fell away and eventually The Hubb closed. It was bought by a developer and in 2014-15 it was converted into a seven apartments. John Richard Townsend (1930-2013), an artist who was born in the suburb of Sherwood, NG5, studied at the Nottingham College of Art. He and his girlfriend, later his wife, spent some of their courting days, socialising in The Quorn in the 1930s. In 1970, Her Majesty The Queen commissioned a portrait of herself to be painted by Townsend and it now hangs in Nottingham Council Chambers. In August 2015 the apartment block was named Townsend House in his memory.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.979916
Longitude
-1.157129