IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
The Poplars, NOTTINGHAM, NG9 2UY

A side view of this landmark building which has now been converted into apartments very sympathetically, with a newly built block behind which is in harmony with the original mill. I have heard said, that people in the old building have difficulty getting off-the-shelf curtains with a long enough drop!

Outside the entrance to the Francis Mill apartments. Taken from the third floor.

View of the rear buildings from Wollaton Road. The white house would probably have been the original proprietor's residence.

This mill complex occupies an area in Beeston bounded by Wollaton, Abbey, and Muriel Roads and Albion Street. This photo, taken from Albion Street, shows the back of the block which has its frontage on Wollaton Road (now, of course, converted into flats).

A view through the side gate, showing the new block of apartments - well matched to the original building

Taken from the Sainsbury's overspill car park. Converted to apartments around about 2004. The mill is Grade II listed List entry Number: 1263866 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1263866

Tenement lace factory of 1892. Not quite in the same league as Templeton's carpet factory, Glasgow but quite passable on a dull Sunday in December.

The former lace factory as seen from the opposite side of Albion Street. The Anglo-Scotian Mill was designed by J. Huckerby for the owner, Frank Wilkinson, in 1892 after the previous mill was destroyed by fire. Wilkinson made a fortune from the manufacture of lace curtains, in what has been described as “the largest net curtain factory in Europe”, by revolutionising marketing methods. Both the Gothic style frontage on Wollaton Road and this exotic entrance are well known locally. Lace production here was said to be at its peak just prior to World War I. Now however, this Grade II-listed building has been converted into a mixed commercial and residential complex.

A supermarket petrol station and car park on Albion Street, opposite the apartments developed in this Grade II-listed former lace mill, "The Anglo-Scotian Mill" development.

The former lace factory - The Anglo-Scotian Mill - situated on a plot of land in the angle of Wollaton Road (the B6006) on the right and Albion Street seen behind it. On a small plot of land facing Wollaton Road, near where the divided chimney-breast branches are visible on the side wall of the mill, a cottage once existed where William Abednigo Thompson (1818-1880) - "Bendigo" - the All-England bare-knuckle prize fighter lived during his retirement. He was born in Sneinton and during his life he became known as a successful boxer, an alcoholic and a Methodist evangelist. Following his death, 7 weeks after falling down the stairs of this cottage, his mile long funeral procession involved thousands and included national figures. Even "The Times" published an obituary on him. He was buried in his mother's grave in the former burial grounds at Bath Street Rest Gardens in Sneinton.