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Sillitoe Way, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 2JZ

These student flats are named after Radford's most famous son, the novelist Alan Sillitoe. Scenes of the film of "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", starring Albert Finney as Sillitoe's anti-hero Arthur Seaton, were filmed in the area, including a sequence at the White Horse, at the corner of Faraday Road, which is shown in other photos nearby. Part of the Raleigh Cycle Factory was on Faraday Road. The photograph is taken from the end of St Peter's Street, at the crossroads where Ilkeston Road becomes Wollaton Road.

Radford was the birthplace of Alan Sillitoe, author of "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" (set in Radford), "The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner" and many other novels and short stories. On the right are the Sillitoe Court student flats, part of the Raleigh Park development. On the corner of Faraday Road is The White Horse (no longer a pub), where Albert Finney, playing Arthur Seaton, is seen falling down the stairs in the film of "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", much of which was filmed on location hereabouts.

The White Horse pub, referred to in the Alan Sillitoe book & film "Saturday Night & Sunday Morning" is now a cafe, albeit that the exterior has been preserved (protected even ?). This is the view across the Ilkeston Road (A609) with the "Opal 1" "premium grade" student accommodation block opposite, on St Peter's Street.

The former "White Horse" pub (of "Saturday Night & Sunday Morning" fame) - currently a cafe - appears to be drowning in a sea of modern architecture on this corner formed by Ilkeston Road and Faraday Road. Six years after Frank Bowden started manufacturing bicycles in a small workshop in Raleigh Street Radford he owned a seven and a half acre cycle factory in Faraday Road, the one with cars disappearing into the distance.

The White Horse pub referred to in the Alan Sillitoe book & film "Saturday Night & Sunday Morning" is now a cafe, albeit that the exterior has been preserved (or protected?). This is the view from opposite it looking up Ilkeston Road (A609) towards the city centre.

Architect Frederick Ball, 1912.

This is the crossroads where Faraday Road and Wollaton Road (left), St Peter's Street (ahead) and Ilkeston Road (right) meet. In recent years brownfield sites have been redeveloped as student accommodation - Nottingham University's Jubilee Campus is nearby.

This tiled pub is now surrounded by student accommodation blocks. The one seen here on the right is called Sillitoe Court. At the time that Alan Sillitoe wrote Saturday Night Sunday Morning it would have been surrounded by the Raleigh factory.