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Mansfield Grove, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 4GQ

Part of Nottingham City's Arboretum Conservation Area - see http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=25588&p=0 .

A corner of the memorial garden on the High School side of the arboretum showing the Chinese Bell Tower and the Sebastapol cannons. Beyond the hedge the clubhouse of the Nottingham Proprietary Bowling Green Club can be seen. The entrance to this private lawn bowls club is at No.29 Addison Street. It seems that the club was developed on some former farm land - circa 1901 - by a collection of city mill owners and industrialists for their exclusive benefit and that of their families.

Weathered Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm42605

There is an OS benchmark Image on the wall near the middle of the image.

The premises of the Nottingham Proprietary Bowling Green Club are located at 29, Addison Street. This club was constructed on former farm land - circa 1901 - by a group of city mill owners and industrialists for their benefit and that of their families. The pointed roof and the coloured tiles of the Chinese Bell Tower are visible in the adjacent Arboretum.

A view of Peel Street looking in the direction of Waverley St. The Italianate tower on top of "The School of Art" building in the distance (now part of Nottingham Trent University) indicates where Waverley St is. The red brick building was part of the now defunct Nottingham Women's Hospital (1930-1981) that has now been converted into privately owned apartments) and the building beyond it - with the grey upper floor and roof - is "The Gooseberry Bush" pub; also on the old maternity hospital site.

The dome of The Council House shows above the roofs more or less at the vanishing point. In "The Illustrated History of Nottingham's Suburbs" Geoffrey Oldfield describes "a short, secluded row between Peel Street [ahead] and Annesley Grove", adding that in 1881 "four of the thirteen houses on the east [left] side were occupied by nonconformist clergymen".

The delicately detailed cap to the spire. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6229843 for location.

This is a replica of the original bell looted from Canton during the Anglo-Chinese War of 1857-61. The original was given to the East Lancs Regimental Museum in 1956. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6229843 for location.

Although styled as a war memorial, it does not refer to casualties but was essentially a glorification of the British Army during the Crimean War of 1854-5 and the Anglo-Chinese War of 1857-61. Two of the cannon were brought back from the battle of Sebastopol, the other two being cast for the monument to create symmetry. The tower houses a replica of the bell looted from Canton during the Anglo-Chinese War, the original having passed to the regimental museum in the 1950s. Designed by the Borough Surveyor M Ogle Tarbotton, erected 1862-3. Listed Grade II.