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Birkin factory now derelict
Unoccupied and with many windows broken. For an earlier view, in the other direction, see
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Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 7 Sep 2016
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Performers at "The Stuff of Life" festival
A locally organised festival centred on Hedley Villas Park.
Image: © David Lally
Taken: 14 Sep 2019
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Guy Birkin Place Business Park, Beech Avenue
Once a lace factory owned by the Birkin family, whose wealth (and acquisition of the land) led to the development of Forest Fields as a genteel suburb, this is now let as offices, with permission for educational use.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 27 Apr 2011
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Villa on Beech Avenue
Most of Forest Fields dates from the last years of the Victorian era and the early part of the twentieth century, but this rather grand stuccoed villa probably dates from shortly after the Enclosure Act of 1845 which led to the rapid expansion of the city.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 27 Apr 2011
0.06 miles
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Gawthorne Street: The Pelham
Looking down from the crest of the ridge which divides New Basford (ahead) from Forest Fields.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 27 Sep 2013
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Gladstone Mews, Forest Fields
On Gladstone Street.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 27 Mar 2017
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Older houses on Beech Avenue
Most of Forest Fields dates from the last years of the Victorian era and the early part of the twentieth century, but these villas date from earlier in the nineteenth century, probably dating from shortly after the Enclosure Act of 1845 which led to the rapid expansion of the city.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 27 Apr 2011
0.10 miles
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Old and new terraces on Gladstone Street
Diligence Villas, the terrace on the right, is dated 1897. Beyond, a twenty-first-century version is going up. Leslie Road, on the left, leads down the hill to Gregory Boulevard and The Forest.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 19 May 2023
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Mount Street
The former Mount Street Mill is now Middlesex International College, which specialises in commercial diploma courses. The building is on the crest of the ridge which separates Sherwood Rise, Forest Fields and Hyson Green (ahead) from New Basford.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 27 Sep 2013
0.11 miles
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Junction of Gladstone Street and Leslie Road
The corner houses are #232 Gladstone Street and #141 Leslie Road.
Image: © Roger Templeman
Taken: 31 Mar 2013
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