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Exeter Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 6LP

The Forest Fields district was built as Nottingham expanded hugely in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Terraces in these styles can be found all over the city.

The red-brick suburb of Forest Fields developed in the last twenty years of the 19th century, after the expansion of the Borough to include Radford, Basford and other parishes in 1877.

Snail on a garden wall, Harcourt Road ~ a wet July 2007 evening

Shama's shop on the corner of Berridge Road and Foxhall Road.

The new building on the left, on the corner of Leslie Road, replaces the semi-detached houses and garage shown in part in Roger Templeman's Image] (2013).

Houses built during the massive expansion of Nottingham in the last twenty years of the nineteenth century.

A relatively rare, and possibly the only extant, example of Watson Fothergill's domestic work. Built 1901. See also Image Grade II listed. Watson Fothergill, or Fothergill Watson as he began life, is Nottingham's Victorian architectural superstar. Walking around the city, it's not long before his idiosyncratic buildings jump out. Drawing on English traditions in a style sometimes labelled as Domestic Revival, his copious use of polychromatic bands of stone, timberwork and carved detail are very distinctive. In lesser hands, a mass of features results in an overwrought jumble, but Fothergill, despite apparently never working outside Nottinghamshire, and rarely even outside the city, was clearly skilled enough to blend everything together successfully. For a full list of his buildings, see http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/The-Buildings-of-Watson-Fothergill.

The picture includes nos. 65 to 95 which are three blocks of terraces built in 1901 and designed by the idiosyncratic Nottingham architect Watson Fothergill. These are probably the humblest buildings by him. Each block is separately Grade II listed.