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Hucknall Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 1FG

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark which is described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35158.

There is an OS benchmark Image on the wall at the left hand side of the image

A view of the A611 (Hucknall Rd) as it descends to cross the junction with Haydn Rd, before ascending the other side of the valley towards the city centre. The factory on the right-hand side is currently occupied by "Rachel Ellen", a company manufacturing greetings cards. Immediately beyond it is a two storey office block that forms part of a local Severn Trent Water Authority depot. This depot occupies a large corner site at the Hucknall Rd/Haydn Rd junction. The Bagthorpe Water Works, reservoir and pumping station first developed this site in 1857.

Basford Waterworks was located at the junction of Haydn Road and Hucknall Road at the site now occupied by the Severn Trent Water Authority. This looking up the main drive towards Hucknall Road. The one storey building on the opposite of Hucknall Road was a small garage operated by the Imperial Motor Company. The lad on the tricycle is me and my sister is in the pushchair.

Built during the 1930s Townsend Court was initially a public house called The Quorn Hotel, and later The Hubb public house and gig venue. Its car park was the site of the fatal stabbing of Malakai McKenzie in 2012. Following its closure it was converted into an apartments block in 2014-15. John Richard Townsend (1930-2013), the Nottingham artist born in Sherwood NG5, studied at the Nottingham College of Art. He and his girlfriend - later his wife - spent some of their courting days, socialising in The Quorn in the 1930s. In 1970 Her Majesty The Queen commissioned a portrait of herself to be painted by Townsend which now hangs in Nottingham Council Chambers. The apartment block was named Townsend House in 2015 in his memory.

Renamed pub on Hucknall Road. It used to be called the Quorn and I'm fairly certain that it's a former Shipstone's house..

Basford Waterworks was located at the junction of Haydn Road and Hucknall Road at the site now occupied by the Severn Trent Water Authority. The works had a staff of two superindentents who lived in tied houses on the site. The original Victorian houses were demolished in the early 1960s and replaced by this modern pair of semi-detached. Hicknall Road is behind the large sandstone wall on the right. The last time I was there the building was still there but used as offices for the Severn Trent Water Authority.

The Hucknall Road/Haydn Road crossroads are a few metres behind the photographer. Hucknall Road, i.e. the A611 stretches ahead in the direction of City Hospital. The two-storey 1930s block on the right was formerly a public house known as The Quorn Hotel and later as The Hubb public house and gig venue. Following the fatal stabbing of Malakai McKenzie in its car park in 2012 business fell away and eventually The Hubb closed. It was bought by a developer and in 2014-15 it was converted into a seven apartments. John Richard Townsend (1930-2013), an artist who was born in the suburb of Sherwood, NG5, studied at the Nottingham College of Art. He and his girlfriend, later his wife, spent some of their courting days, socialising in The Quorn in the 1930s. In 1970, Her Majesty The Queen commissioned a portrait of herself to be painted by Townsend and it now hangs in Nottingham Council Chambers. In August 2015 the apartment block was named Townsend House in his memory.

Basford Waterworks was located at the junction of Haydn Road and Hucknall Road at the site now occupied by the Severn Trent Water Authority. My sister poses in the snow on the main drive. The building on the right is the Nos. 1 & 2 Engine House and the shorter building partially hidden by the bushes is the Nos. 1 & 2 Boiler House. The bushes also hide the coal storage area.

Sadly, The Hubb, on Hucknall Road closed down after a fatal shooting incident in the car park. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-17797594