THEME4 Health, hygiene and education
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Open Air Schools in Nottingham Parks
by Judith Mills, University of Nottingham and Val Wood, Friends of the Arboretum Towards the end of the First World War, Nottingham’s Board of Education began to promote an ‘open […]
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A Place to Rest – in Peace
The two main cemeteries in Nottingham during the 1800’s were the General Cemetery and the Church Cemetery, locally known as the Rock Cemetery. Both were conceived either side of the […]
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Belle View Reservoir
History Trevor Buck (in a paper entitled ‘Corporation Oaks’, 1983) tells us that Thomas Hawksley (1807 – 1893), ‘the greatest water engineer of the age’, was the force behind the […]
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Australian Birds
In the 1930s a gift of Australian birds was made, via the Honorary Curator of the aviary, Captain John Fletcher MC, by Mr Bert Barnett. Out of 126 birds offered, 40 […]
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Whistons green spaces
The lepers of st Leonards needed green spaces as well. fortunately the land adjoining the north end of their site was theirs. So when in 1852 land was released to become Elm […]
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Green Flags Award
The Forest has just (August 2013) been awarded its first green flag and, exclusively for the city, it has also been given a Green Heritage Flag, in recognition of the […]
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Creation of Nottingham’s out-of-town Cemeteries
Under an Act of Parliament, in 1836 the Town Council of Nottingham was required to sell land to the newly formed General Cemetery Company to develop a new Cemetery for […]
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