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St. Albans Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 6JH

Nottingham Road, Arnold.

Appears to depict a pair of bald eagles.

Wetherspoons establishment.

In 1895 the Arnold School Board commissioned a school for the accommodation of 420 girls comprising a central hall and seven class rooms. The cost was £4,700 and this school was opened in November 1896. It became a senior school in 1908 and older girls who had until been attending a school in High Street began attending here. The architect, William H. Higginbottom, was born in Leeds in 1868 but before he was 1 year old the family moved to Arnold following his father, Anthony's, appointment as the Headmaster of the British School on the site now occupied by the Arnold market. Anthony, it seems, was also something of an amateur draughtsman and his interest prompted his son to study and qualify as an architect and surveyor. William eventually opened an architectural practice with offices at 120 Front street, Arnold and 2, Friar Yard, Friar Lane, Nottingham. Apparently William designed a good many of Arnold's other well-known buildings. Prior to its closure - and conversion into a Business Centre - it was a mixed Primary School. This is a view towards where Church Drive and Church Drive East form the top bar of a T shape, this being the shaft of the T.

Facing Charles Street's junction with Nottingham Road. Nottingham Road is the one of the principal routes into Arnold's commercial heart. "The Old People's Welfare Centre" on the right was built in 1955 as a result of public generosity. It was provided "for the welfare of aged persons in Arnold and Daybrook and District, in perpetuity." It is also available for hire by community groups, e.g. a local amateur dramatic group uses it regularly to stage their productions.

Before the junction with St Alban's Road (visible ahead) the northerly end of Church Drive becomes wider once past this former traditional Church or Chapel - currently "The Church of God Prophecy" (sic) - and the former Church Drive Primary School opposite it (and now a Business Centre). The year of construction of the church building is identifed above the entrance as 1900.

A number of the fairly substantial (4-5 bedroomed) Victorian semi-detached houses on Church Drive looking in the St Alban's Road direction. Interestingly, the housing stock on the other side of the road is a long - almost continuous - row of smaller terraced houses, presumably built later.