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Wentworth Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 2LL

Victorian semis, off Hucknall Road.

Possible eroded Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark which is described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35155.

Looking east from Hucknall Road towards Sherwood; early 20th century housing.

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..

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

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.

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.

On the right-hand side of the descending A611 (Hucknall Rd) several new houses and a construction company advertising hoarding heralds the entrance/exit to a 'new build' housing development referred to as "Burlington Place" by Peveril Homes plc. This new estate has been developed on a brown field site that previously housed an industrial complex owned by Courtaulds Ltd, who were taken over by the Sara Lee Corporation.

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.

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.