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Bentinck Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 4AA

Hyson Green has the largest ethnic minority population in Nottingham and this is seen in the multicultural shops on Radford Road.

The building on the right, now a mosque, was originally, according to Robert Mellors' "Old Nottingham suburbs: then and now" (1914), a handicraft centre, one of the many council schools - including Bentinck Road, Berridge Road, Scotholme and Forster Street - built in Radford following the Forster Education Act of 1870.

Of most historical interest is the early 19th-century house with framework-knitter's windows on its third storey (above the red car). These large windows were essential to give the hand-loom weavers enough light. The Alfreton Road frontage of the house is shown in Alan Murray-Rust's photograph of the Alma Inn http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1044403. This photograph is also notable in showing the then home, on the left, of the alluring fellow student who shared the Forest Fields Grammar School 0-level English prize with me in 1964.

It is suggested that this may have been most recently an Indian bank, but originally it seems to have been opened by the National Provincial Bank after 1918, and became a National Westminster Bank branch after Westminster and National Provincial merged about 1967.

Older people will remember the Staddons furnishing store and its huge clock on the Radford Road side, above the main door. The white panel above the windows on the Caulton Street facade once carried the Staddon name, in large, flourishing letters.

A view from the corner of Southey Street, taken on the sunny morning of midsummer day.

Looking from Bentinck Road towards the backs of Victorian and twentieth-century houses on Peveril Street.

Taken from the corner of Lake Street on a brilliant June morning.

A view from the corner of Bentinck Road (left) and Alfreton Road. The early 19th-century house next to the closed pub has third-floor frame-knitter's windows.