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Radford Boulevard, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 3BP

The white panels are inscribed Methodist Sunday Schools 1890, so it is clear that the church has moved in at a later stage. It is now shared with commercial occupants.

in Victorian times a very fashionable area of Nottingham. Not so now, but still nice with all the trees.

The church was designed by the Nottingham architect R C Sutton. A foundation stone beneath the blue notice board was "Laid on behalf of the sewing class by Mrs Smith". Another records the names of the Superintendent, Rev T Granger, the architect and the contractor, Mr W Savage. There has been only one slight external change since Alan Murray-Rust recorded the building on a brighter day in 2008: Image

A view from the junction with Ilkeston Road. Nottingham's boulevards were an enlightened piece of Victorian planning, creating a ring road from Carrington Street near the Midland Station to Mansfield Road at Carrington. (Be sure not to pronounce it boulvarr, in the French way - to true Nottinghamians it's a bulleevard.)

Alvey Terrace is the name given to this row of bungalows hugging this private footpath and connecting two sections of Forster Street. The bungalows, the path and the maisonettes opposite them are owned by the Wm. Sutton Housing Trust. William Sutton (1833-1900) was a Londoner who made his fortune through door-to-door parcel deliveries (something the Royal Mail was not doing at the time) through his company, Sutton Carriers. After his death most of his wealth went into housing trusts named after him that still provide affordable housing for impoverished people. The former Radford Methodist church, now being used by another Christian church, can be seen in the distance.

Radford Boulevard, near Denman Street corner, looking towards Alfreton Road and Gregory Boulevard. Castle, Lenton, Radford and Gregory Boulevards, laid out in the 1880s, were a piece of enlightened town planning, forming an early ring road, lined with genteel villas and some industrial premises, on the west side of the city.

The Gregory was one of the core components of this junction: known as "'ation Corner" after the four buildings surrounding the junction: a church (SalvATION), a school (EducATION), a pub (DamNATION), and a pawnshop (RuinATION). See http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=827 for more details.

Until the clearance schemes of the late 1960s, Denman Street ran almost the whole length of Radford, from St Peter's Street in the west uphill almost to Canning Circus. It has now been truncated and partly pedestrianised. When I was growing up in these parts in the 1950s, Denman Street was quite a shopping centre. Three-storey houses and shops were a Nottingham speciality in the late Victorian period.

On Ikeston Road.