Newsletter Volume 03 Issue 45 August 2021 The Opening of Nottingham’s despite the building that was about to take place. The plan was to create a circle of walks around the Victorian Town Trail town, linked to local parks and including a few cricket grounds. This was subsequently amended 1:00pm on Sunday 26th September from the south to include an arboretum but to reduce the extent of end of Queen’s Walk by the Embankment tram the walks. Some land was also to be used to stop. expand the General Cemetery and the Rock Cemetery. In the 18th century Nottingham was a fashionable, elegant town however due to a combination of When The Friends of the Forest was set up in urbanisation, movement of people off the land, 2001 there was little appreciation of how industrialisation, and population growth, the important the 1845 Act had been in maintaining number of people in the town increased from open space as a source of fresh air and recreation 10,910 in 1750 to 28,861 in 1800 and by 1831 it for the people of Nottingham. The Friends set had reached 50,220. The upper classes moved out about establishing an itinerary and created a free of the town centre which became increasingly public event to show and explain this land, its populated by the working class. All the available heritage, and its purpose. For the past 17 years space within the town boundaries was intensively June Perry and The Friends of the Forest have developed which resulted in the creation of cheap, been conducting an annual guided walk which poorly designed, overcrowded housing with poor takes in Queens Walk, Queens Walk Recreation sanitation. Ground, Victoria Park, Robin Hood Chase, Corporation Oaks, St. Ann’s Hill (round Belle Historically the town boundaries were surrounded Vue Reservoir), Elm Avenue, The Arboretum, by open ‘Common Land’ to the north-west (the Waterloo Promenade, and The Forest. The walk Sand Field), the north-east (the Clay Field) and also includes parts of the General and the Rock the south, between the Rivers Leen and Trent (the Cemeteries, both of which provide the pleasures Meadows). The obvious solution was to develop of a park with their winding paths over hilly this open land through the process of Enclosure, landscapes, richly populated with trees and but the Town Corporation was persistently against fascinating monuments. This year the walk has it and so it remained until the implementation of been made into a Town Trail marked with the Municipal Reform Act of 1835 which changed information boards to help follow the 5-mile route the way that councils were elected. and Kate Ashbrook, General Secretary of the On June 30th, 1845, an Act to enclose the Fields Open Spaces Society, will formally open The and Wastes of Nottingham, St. Mary’s Parish, was Trail and start the walk at 1:00pm on Sunday 26th given the Royal Assent. The Act would allow the September from the south end of Queen’s Walk town to build out over the fields in all directions, by the Embankment tram stop. but it was not actually implemented until 1865, The walk takes a leisurely pace and includes brief which must suggest the number and complexity of historical chats along the way. It is suitable for the different issues involved. powered wheelchairs. It finishes at the Inclosure One benefit of this process was the allocation of Oak at the Lodge end of The Forest. 130 acres of land for the use of the public for Please join in supporting the Inclosure Walk and recreation. The open fields around Nottingham Nottingham’s green spaces. had given the townspeople space for walks and games in the fresh air, and now it was seen to be necessary to keep something of this facility Page 1 of 15 Thoroton Society Visit to Nottingham Castle Due to the continuation of restrictions on group numbers attending visits to attractions, the visit to Nottingham Castle scheduled for Tuesday 6 July has been re-arranged for 10-19 September 2021 Wednesday 8 September. Most HOD events are FREE and most but not all are available throughout the week. For For more information see: specific dates, times and booking information http://www.thorotonsociety.org.uk/events.htm go to https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/visiti ng/advanced-search and select Trains, Trams and Trolley Buses, ‘Nottinghamshire’ Steve Wright, Burton Joyce and Bulcote Local History Society Small Air Forces of the British On Wednesday 8th September 2021 in the Empire, Bob Massey, Carnarvon Room on Chestnut Heritage Lincolnshire Avenue in Burton Joyce, at On Wednesday 1st September 7.30 pm Steve Wright will talk 2021 at 7:00pm via ZOOM about historic transport Bob Massey will tell how Visitors are very welcome at a small Empire air forces played fee of £5.00. their part in World War Two. Book online at www.heritagelincolnshire.org/shop/tickets/ A Flavour of Flintham Single tickets for HTL members £5 (non-members Flintham Museum, Inholms Road, £7) Combination ticket for the four-talk series, Flintham, Nottinghamshire, NG23 5LF £14 for HTL members (non-members £20) Learn about 20th century sweets and Bob is also conducting a free history talk and walk chocolates at the Flintham Museum and discover on Sunday 5th September 2021 at 2:OOpm how families coped with wartime food rationing. starting outside the Community Centre at Killisick Recreation Ground on Coppice Road Behind the Scenes Tours of The National Civil War Museum 14 Brunel Drive, Newark, Mechanics in the Air, Bob Massey, Nottinghamshire, NG24 2EG Heritage Lincolnshire Come and see some of the 95,000 objects in our reserve collection in this rare opportunity to see On Tuesday 7th September 2021 at 7:00pm via behind the scenes of a working museum. ZOOM Bob Massey will tell the unknown story of the Air Arm of the British breakdown rescue Assistant Curator Kevin will lift covers and open service, the Automobile Association. boxes to show you art, social history, military history, archives and lots more, from Anglo Book online at Saxons, Romans and Victorians to the present www.heritagelincolnshire.org/shop/tickets/ day. Single tickets for HTL members £5 (non-members £7) Combination ticket for the four-talk series, £14 for HTL members (non-members £20) Page 2 of 15 Civil War tour of Newark, including Newark Masonic Hall Museum the Queens Sconce Opening Masonic Hall, The Avenue, Newark, Newark Castle, Newark Castle Gardens, Nottinghamshire, NG24 1ST Castle Gate, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 1BG Visitors will be able to see artefacts related to the history of the Masons in Newark, including Kevin Winter will lead a Civil War tour of regalia and objects related to past members Newark. Explore some of the places that were at the heart of key events, ending at the Queens Palace Theatre Centre Stage Sconce. Palace Theatre, Appleton Gate, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 1JY Friends of Newark Town Hall Museum and Art Gallery Visit the pop-up exhibition about Newark Palace Theatre's first 100 years. Newark Town Hall, Market Place, Spotlight Tours - Spotlight on Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 1DU Families Discover more about this beautiful Georgian National Civil War Centre, Newark building and its classical architecture from Museum, 14 Appleton Gate, Newark, pediment to piano nobile. Nottinghamshire, NG24 1JY Heritage Building Skills Free family taster tours of the National Civil War Demonstration and Participation Centre Newark Market Place, Newark, Spotlight Tours - Spotlight on Status Nottinghamshire, NG24 1DU National Civil War Centre, Newark When you look at the historic buildings around Museum, 14 Appleton Gate, Newark, Newark you may wonder how they are kept Nottinghamshire, NG24 1JY looking like they did in the past. Short taster tours of Newark Museum, exploring Milton Mausoleum some of the museum collection's treasures. Milton Mausoleum, The Avenue, Stories of Newark Castle Milton, Newark, Nottinghamshire, Newark Castle, Castle Gate, Newark, NG22 0PW Nottinghamshire, NG24 1BG The Mausoleum was commissioned by the 4th Explore the tower, debtors dungeon and Duke of Newcastle and built for his wife Georgina secret places inside Newark Castle and watch a when she died shortly after giving birth to twins. short performance from the monk who tried to Newark Heritage Barge “Leicester cure King John… Trader” The Exotic Food History of Thoresby Riverside Park, Tolney Lane, Newark, Park Nottinghamshire, NG24 1BS The Stonebridge Trust, Thoresby, Research information about Trent size Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG22 9EP sailing barges built at Newark and life on board Join us at Thoresby Park for a for families, especially children. celebration of food history covering over three hundred years. Page 3 of 15 Walks of Life Museum / From Field Home Farm Barn to Fork 17 Main Street, Keyworth, Nottingham, The Walks of Life Museum, Lincoln Nottinghamshire, NG12 5AA Road, Tuxford, Newark, Come and visit this grade II listed barn. Nottinghamshire, NG22 0HR The Walks of Life Museum makes the link Green’s Windmill and Science Centre Greens Mill Science Centre, Windmill between the production of food on the land to the Lane, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, dinner table. NG2 4QB A Slice of Ruddington Join us for a special exhibition to celebrate Ruddington Framework Knitters Heritage Open Days. Learn more about famous Museum, 3-7 Chapel Street, mathematician George Green, view photos of the Ruddington, Nottingham, mill Nottinghamshire, NG11 6HE Be one the first to experience our newly Heritage Bus Depot Museum Open redeveloped museum and community garden. Weekend Nottingham Heritage Vehicles Charity, Bagthorpe Gardens Portland Road, Hucknall, Nottingham, Hucknall Road, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG15 7SF Nottinghamshire, NG5 1DA Nottinghamshire’s buses and coaches of Enjoy a guided walk through these yesteryear in a fully refurbished Art Deco heritage interesting historical allotments created in the depot.