![]() ![]() ![]() "It was one of the earliest theatres in Nottingham. The Grand Theatre, Radford Road, opened in 1886 and began showing films as a cinema in 1910. On the southern part of Radford Road there was also a Woolworths and quite a large Boots store. He adds: "There was a Co-op store down there. Between the top of Radford Road, the southern end of Radford Road, and the northern end, by 1890 there were 180 shops along the road." (Image: Picture Nottingham/Nottingham Historical Film Unit) "These people needed somewhere to live but not too far from Nottingham because a lot of the trade was controlled by large hosiery firms that were based in Nottingham but they needed space for workers and initially these were domestic.ġ975: Radford Road, Hyson Green. "But it needed people to work the frames and then it needed women and girls to do embroidery and seaming. He says: "A lot of the pioneers of the inventions of the machinery, improvements to the machinery, were based in or around Nottingham. The city was known for its hand-knitting and stocking-making, as Mr Weir explains. Housing was built for people working in the hosiery industry that began to take off in the late 18th century. "They needed to be walkable because, for the working people of Nottingham, they weren't going to be affording wagons." "One of them was to Ison, or the Green, where people could go bowling or run around a bit and perhaps listen to a band. There weren't really that many places to go within walking distance. "Nottingham people were crowded together and there were a lot of slums in places like Narrow Marsh. "It was the early 1800s when it became a place to visit," says Mr Weir, who lives in Mapperley. Local historian Chris Weir, 71, says it was a popular area in this era. One stems from a man called John Ison who built some houses in the early 1800s and named them Ison Green.Īnother suggestion is that the original Cricket Players Inn, which opened in Radford Road, in 1824, and was later demolished, served Hyson tea. There are several theories as to how the area became known as Hyson Green. ![]() There's a map of the area from around about 1813 that shows it was just fields." The redevelopment is likely to be seen as a bellwether for major overhauls of moribund shopping centres around the country which have been pushed aside by online shopping, out-of-town retail parks and increased interest in leisure activities, rather than buying physical stuff."It was very little value - it was completely undeveloped. The aim is to bridge between generations, communities, and cultures so that the new Broad Marsh can reflect the true diversity of the city.” Rather than demolish the structure, we are proposing to keep the frame and breathe new life into it, creating a place that can hold the diversity and vibrancy that is so lacking from many city centres. They should be about bringing people together, not just about retail. Heatherwick said: “The challenge of what to do with the former Broadmarsh shopping centre has been a chance to think about the failure of our city centres. Members of the committee include Sir Tim Smit of the Eden Project in Cornwall and Greg Nugent, a former director of the London 2012 Olympics committee. The lease was taken on by Nottingham city council, which launched a public consultation and steering committee to help decide on the future of the site. Photograph: Broad MarshĪbout half of the Broadmarsh centre, which opened in 1975, was demolished amid redevelopment of the 8-hectare (20-acre) site, which was halted when its former owner, the retail property group Intu, went bust last year. Leisure facilities depicted in the design drawings include a climbing wall and an oversized trampoline. ![]()
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