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Royal Albert Mill, Gamble Street
Image: © Bryn Holmes
Taken: 25 Mar 2019
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Former J B Spray & Co lace mill, Russell Street
After standing empty for many years it was converted to student accommodation in 2017. Built c.1870 as a tenement lace factory, Listed Grade II.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 12 Aug 2019
0.03 miles
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Entrance to Waterloo Promenade, Forest Road West, Nottingham ? gate pier
Waterloo Promenade was developed in the 1850s as part of improvements under the Nottingham Inclosure Act of 1845. Piers and stone copings are Listed Grade II, the railings being modern replacements for the originals which were taken for war effort scrap during WW2.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 12 Aug 2019
0.03 miles
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Side yard of J. B. Spray & Co.
A graffiti artist has picked a good complementary colour for his work on the green shed door.
Image: © David Lally
Taken: 6 Mar 2008
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Waterloo Promenade and Forest Road West
The distinctive gate piers are peculiar to this part of Nottingham - see
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Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 23 Jan 2017
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Entrance to Waterloo Promenade, Forest Road West, Nottingham
Waterloo Promenade was developed in the 1850s as part of improvements under the Nottingham Inclosure Act of 1845. Piers and stone copings are Listed Grade II, the railings being modern replacements for the originals which were taken for war effort scrap during WW2.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 12 Aug 2019
0.04 miles
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Forest Road West
The Alfreton Road end of Forest Road, with the entrance to Waterloo Promenade on the right.
For more views of these extraordinary carved gate piers, see
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Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 21 Jun 2017
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Gamble Street: Bertrand Russell House
Now student accommodation, this was originally a lace works, with north-light clerestory attic finishing rooms. The cement pattern on the end gable is a clue to the size (and chimneys) of the adjoining building which preceded the current one.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 21 Jun 2017
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Albert Mill, Gamble Street, Nottingham
In a cluster of former industrial buildings associated with lacemaking. This fine building was rebuilt by Arthur Brewill in 1893. A chimney - sacrificed for this photo - survives (
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Like everything else, it's now student accommodation.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 19 Jun 2015
0.04 miles
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Goodbye to a mill
Some of the Lace mills on or near the Alfreton Road have survived as apartment conversions or are in use as small industrial units. This one on the corner of Russell Street and Forest Road West however has not been so lucky and is being demolished.
Image: © David Lally
Taken: 6 Mar 2008
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