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Morley Court, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 4QA

A 100 from Southwell nears the end of its journey as it reaches the bottom of Carlton Road, Nottingham, just a short distance from the city centre.

A glance along the Manvers Street end of Carlton Road (B686) reveals these two Church or Sunday School related buildings. The nearest one, now occupied by a non-conformist church group, has an obvious cross shape incorporated into some ornate herringbone brickwork - once popular in the "Tudorbethan" or "Jacobethan" styles of the 1920's and 1930's - plus a low bell tower. The second property, formerly St Luke's Parochial School, was designed by the Nottingham architect Frederick Bakewell and built in the 1860s. It currently houses the offices of an internal design consultancy company. St Luke's Church itself was demolished in 1925.

Traditional Victorian period public house, which has been closed since around 2013 and is at the time of writing subject to a planning application for conversion to student flats. A similar fate has overtaken the nearby White Lion http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4230251 and Duke of Cambridge http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5401874 public houses. It appears to have retained the same name throughout its existence.

See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5401870 for location. Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe is particularly noted for his victory over the French fleet at the Battle known as The Glorious First of June. The portrait is taken from a painting by Henry Singleton.

Typical inter-war period pub. It closed sometime in 2014.

An attractive Victorian building in local stone, it has been well refurbished in recent years. It has had a succession of business occupiers for several decades.

By George Frederick Bodley

By George Frederick Bodley.

A view of Dakeyne Street (cul-de-sac) on the other side of the B686, taken from the corner of Handel Street. The street-name sign of the latter is affixed to the corner of The Duke of Devonshire pub whose entrance is on Carlton Road. This pub is still known to some as “The Madhouse” because of the fact that selected patients from The County Lunatic Asylum in Dakeyne Street were allowed to use the pub as a meeting place until the hospital closed in 1902. A plaque near to the pub entrance refers to this.

West Street becomes Bond Street at this corner, on which is also situated a Ukrainian Catholic Church. The small church hall immediately in front of it seems likely to have been added later?