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Cranmer Walk, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 4FP

A short section of Cranmer Street featuring a Nottingham Trent University Hall of Residence now known as Gordon House. The first "Gordon Memorial Home" in Nottingham was founded elsewhere in 1885. By 1898 it had moved to 28-30, Peel Street. Its purpose was to support and train 45 destitute boys for industrial and other work. The residents were between 10-16 years old and each wore a uniform. Apparently the home boasted a brass band that was available for hire. 70 boys and their supervisors moved to these larger premises in 1904.

General Gordon is most famous for the Siege of Khartoum, but in 1885 he founded a "home for destitute boys of working age" in Nottingham (see http://mapperleyandsherwoodhistorygroup.co.uk/the-gordon-boys-home for a full history). It occupied this building from 1904 to 1958. After that it as variously used as a Civil Defence Centre, teacher training college, student accommodation and is now private rented accommodation.

Erected in 1904 as a purpose built home for destitute boys. The home moved in 1958 and closed in 1965. The building is now student accommodation with 58 bedrooms.

Goldswong Terrace - Wong being an old Saxon word for a field. Ernest Weekley, a professor of modern languages and his wife lived at No.9. Soon after D.H.Lawrence and Frieda Weekley became lovers, the couple left for Italy. They soon returned to Nottingham however, in order to try to re-establish contact with Frieda's children. Sadly the children’s father denied them access and as a result they returned to Europe. Frieda divorced Ernest Weekley in 1914 and she and D.H. were married in London in the same year. They had hoped to return to Italy but were unable to do so due to the outbreak of World War I. Instead they moved to Cornwall in 1915. As the war intensified, hatred towards Germans grew and as a result of this, and because Frieda was German, people began to despise them. They were ordered to leave the UK in October 1917. It seems that they visited Australia for a few weeks before sailing to Taos, New Mexico via New Zealand, Tahiti and San Francisco. They finally left North America in September 1925, 6 mths after David was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Apparently they lived in Italy between 1925-28 before moving to Vence in the south of France where David died on 2nd March 1930.

Now a hall of residence for Nottingham Trent University, it was formerly the Nottingham Gordon Home for Boys.

Looking towards Alfred Street and Mansfield Road from the Cranmer Street end.

The school is located in St Ann's Hill Road.

The driveway that leads to the now defunct Elms Nursery School, Cranmer Street, albeit that this entrance is off Goldswong Terrace. This establishment and its partner institution, The Elms Primary School, Cranmer Street were closed on 31st August 2008.

See Image for the front of this private school on St Ann's Hill Road.

The Elms school was closed in 2009. The house in the foreground was presumably for the caretaker.