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Fourth Avenue, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 6JB

The pleasing villas on First, Second, Third and Fourth Avenues were some of the first houses built north of The Forest as Nottingham expanded after the Enclosure Act of 1845. The houses face south and the road approach is from the rear.

This narrow and nondescript lane actually provides access to a number of quite attractive Victorian villas with south-facing frontages.

Looking from Sherwood Rise towards Gladstone Street and Forest Fields. Any number of houses of this kind were built as Nottingham mushroomed in the last twenty years of the nineteenth century.

Looking east across Sherwood Rise to Hamilton Road from Alberta Terrace.

Ordnance Survey 1986 cut mark benchmark which is described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35126

Looking up the hill towards New Basford from near the corner of Alberta Terrace.

The northern edge of Forest Fields, where it shades into New Basford. The typical three-storey terraced houses at this end of the road date, like much of the area, from the end of the 19th century. This is the view towards Sherwood Rise.

2nd floor windows 2nd house from the right was my home for 2nd year at Nottingham University. This house was always colder inside than out, even in the middle of winter when we all had our gas fires on full. We would emerge from the front door and take our coats off! There was a hole in the roof in those days through which pigeons would enter to make the loft-space their home. I would be woken in the mornings (to realise I'd just missed another lecture) by their scratching and scraping on my ceiling.

Note pointy French chateau roof and the stone carved "Watson Fothergill Architect".