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The Magazine of Lenton Local History Society
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Highfield Road - Lenton
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narrow detached property is No. 84, the first house you see on the western
side of Highfield Road as you turn into the road from Greenfield
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| Nigel
Mann provided us with this photograph of No. 84 Highfield
Road, and he suggests it was possibly taken some time in the 1950s.
Apart from the paintwork the exterior of the building is much
the same as is shown in our 2004 shot of the property although the
view beyond the side garden is very different today. |
| No. 26. The earliest part of this building is likely to have been the portion on the right. The section on the left definitely looks of a more recent vintage. Doubtless it is possible to date both sections of the building from the original plans lodged for building regulations approval, which can now be examined at Nottingham Archives. |
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| No.24. This property was known as Highfields Cottage in the 1930s. The design of this building plus the fact that it is a detached property set back from the road would suggest that it was among the earliest to be built after the streets were laid out by the Osmaston Land Company in the late nineteenth century. |
| This site used to house just one property which has since been demolished to make way for this set of town houses, No. 14-18, situated opposite the junction with Lace Street. |
| The three sets of semi-detached properties, No. 2-12, situated at the Clifton Boulevard end of Highfield Road. It is not every property that has a crenellated top to its side entrance. |
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84
Highfield Road
Among
the former occupants of 84 Highfield Road, also known as Vernon House, were
the Anderson family – Arthur Stuart Anderson, his wife Louie Anderson (nee Krause)
and their children, Mabel Constance, Caroline, Donald, and Vernon. They
were already in residence at the time of the 1901 census and were, we are told,
still living there after the end of the First World War. Mabel Anderson’s
great grandson, Nigel Mann, is
in possession of a letter written by Louie Anderson to her brother-in-law out
in Australia in April 1917 from which we include the following extract:
'We have snow more or less since end of October 1916 & is still here 1 April (Sunday). Both sons [are] on munitions [work] but not able to go full time [owing to] health broken down. … just got two young people in yesterday another wounded soldier & wife [on a] temporary [basis working] on munitions paying 15s. for rooms & attention & by the 5 April Mabel & boys will come home for a holiday making 10 in the house – some work – but the latter is only for a week. Our Carrie is looking fine so she said .. she wll look out for a house to let – meaning a husband but this war has made such avock (havoc) with the male tribe I don’t know where she will look: still I suppose when the boys come back wounded & tired they will be looking for what I have here in my well trained daughters [namely] a beautiful heart not painted up dolls. Everything is very dear potatoes 3s 6d a packet, bread 1s. a quarter loaf, butter 2s 6d ….'
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