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Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Sneinton and Me 4 - The Building Boom of the 1820s and its effect on Sneinton due to Failure to Enclose Nottingham's Fields
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For a period of twenty years Nottingham's only spatial expansion consisted of a north-easterly advance into the parish of Sneinton. In h...
Sneinton and Me 3 - Graft on the Corporation and Spatial Expansion
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Burgesses control the land surrounding Nottingham - prevent the outward expansion of the town in order to profit from land values in the t...
Sneinton and Me 2 - The Industrial Revolution as a Stimulus for the Growth of a Domestic Outwork System
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In Notti n gham an increase in the availability of cotton and yarn, made possible by industrialisation, led to a boom in domestic frame...
Sneinton and Me 1 - Introduction 2025
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Sneinton is where I spent most of the early part of my life. When I went to uni I studied the history of working class housing. This entaile...
Saturday, 13 May 2017
No Place Like Home
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I live in a very small terrace house, 'two up, two down'. It was built over 140 years ago, and as an enthusiast for 19th century h...
Monday, 8 May 2017
What's Your Poison? Again
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In What's Your Poison? I told of my grandmother's experience of being poisoned by a 'medication' given to her in the 189...
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