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Castle Close, NOTTINGHAM, NG14 6LX

Part of the western block of development of Calverton as a colliery village in the 1950s, although the houses actually visible in the picture are not part of the development.

An unusual way of displaying one's house number.

The new housing development on the existing Cherry Tree pub site. Nearly ready for the moving in stage. See Image

The site where this pub stood, land sold to make way for housing development. See Image

I have been unable to discover the original use of this building. There is a stone in the right hand gable displaying an open book inscribed 'Bible', so it may well have been a Sunday School.

The extension is a sympathetic attempt at matching the traditional building style, doubtless resulting from the fact that this is within the Conservation Area of the village. Nevertheless, the roof pitch is much flatter than ideal, and the plastic windows appear to have an angular top rather than a true curve.

A small hosiery factory, which would have been equipped with framework knitting machines, a bit of an exception when most of the work was done in private dwellings. Built c1830, with the nearer end possibly slightly later. Listed Grade II. In use as a hosiery factory until 1944, later a printing works, currently a curtains and blinds supplier.

G VI R pillar box on Main Street. Also its neighbouring cast iron fingerpost, currently in need of some fresh paint.

A former C17th pinfold (a.k.a. stray animal pen) at the junction of Main Street and Mews Lane. The white gate marks the entrance into the village hall car park. The house beyond the pinfold, with the generous windows that allowed in as much natural light as possible, was a former frame-knitter's (stocking knitter's) house. By the early 1800s there were said to be more than 400 stocking frames in homes in Calverton. Some cottagers had four or five frames in one room. The heart of the village, with its churches, library and shops, lies behind the photographer.