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Elm Avenue, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 4GF

The houses on the east side of the avenue are generally less pretentious than those on the opposite side.

In 1833 a Select Committee on Public Walks recommended the creation of “properly regulated” public walks for the “middle and humbler classes” in order to improve “their cleanliness, neatness and personal appearance” and provide a venue for a man to show off his wife and well-behaved children. Such walks were seen as an alternative to the “drinking shops, where, in short-lived excitement, they may forget their toil, but where they waste the means of their families and too often destroy their health”. It became possible to implement these recommendations after the 1845 Enclosure Act, and by 1852 walks and other green spaces had been established in an arc north of the town centre, from Robin Hood Chase in the east, along Corporation Oaks and Elm Avenue to the Arboretum and the General Cemetery. The Forest recreation ground was also established. A journalist then wrote that “Nottingham might vie with any town in England for its well-grown and well-dressed women of the operative classes who on Sunday throng the park and public walks.” (All of this information comes from “The transformation of green space in old and new Nottingham” in Volume 118 of the Transactions of the Thoroton Society.)

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm47927

Former works building now housing recording studios. There is an OS benchmark Image on the near corner, under the H sign and left of the white-painted bricks around the entrance to Dance School (Arabic & Brazilian Culture and Dance)

A Grade II listed lace factory of the 1850s, now a "centre of creative enterprise". The enterprises include a dance studio and, appropriately, a lace and textile company. For the very informative listing text, see http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-492001-oldknows-factory-#.VZ_f5CiwHZY . To the left, fronting Egerton Street, is the slightly older part of the building.

Part of a green corridor created probably in the 1870s, stretching from the Arboretum round the north east of the City to St Ann's. Other parts still retain the mature trees planted at the inception, but the age of trees along here suggests that the originals were elms which succumbed to the Dutch Elm Disease disaster of the late 70s.

Elm Avenue from Huntingdon Road. This is the reverse view to Image This delightful traffic-free avenue runs, As Elm Avenue, from Huntingdon Road, A60, to Bellvue Reservoir then as Corporation Oaks and as Robin Hood Chase to St Ann's Well Road.

A fine former lace factory built c1850. Grade II listed. Now rentable office space.

This large lace making factory complex, known as Oldnow's Factory. The complex comprises two linked factory ranges and a separate ancillary building, currently partly vacant and partly in use as studios, offices, workshops and for textile manufacturing. This view is of the slightly more recent St Ann's Hill Road range, built circa 1855 for Hartshorn & Oldknow, lace manufacturers. The complex is listed, grade II, and there is much history and detail at: https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1391487