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Home Brewery

Founded in 1875 by John Robinson, the Home Brewery was famous for its trademark Robin Hood logo on beermats. The name of the brewery referred to the Robinson family’s Bestwood Home Farm, located on Oxclose Lane. The company is currently still under the ownership of Heineken UK, with an active but non-trading status at Companies House. Arnold Town F.C. relocated away from the town centre to another ground in Arnold, known as Eagle Valley.

Framework knitting industry

Arnold was a centre of the framework knitting industry in the 19th century. It was the site of the first framebreaking incidents of the Luddite riots, on 11 March 1811, when 63 frames were smashed.

Arnot Hill Park

Arnot Hill Park was created in c. 1792 to serve as a backdrop to Arnot Hill House. Arnot Hill House in Daybrook was the home of the Hawksleys, a prominent Nottingham family. John Hawksley (1765-1815), a mill owner, lived there with his partner Sarah Thompson, who was the mother of his six children, four of whom survived. He had married Sarah Arnold, a doctor’s daughter, on 23 February 1799 at St Margaret’s Church in Leicester, but the marriage failed and she returned to Leicester where she remained until her death in 1846. John Hawksley’s relationship with Sarah Thompson is clearly demonstrated in his will dated 5 June 1812 when he writes. “I revoke all former wills and this is my last. I give and devise all my property of whatever nature or form the same may be to Mrs Beech and Sarah Thompson whom I appoint joint Executrixes of this my will for the benefit of my children John, Thomas, Francis, Maria, Frances, issue that are and any that may thereafter be born also of the body of Sarah Thompson (who assumes my name from the affection I bear her)”. The will was proved on 2 April 1816 by the oaths of Sarah Beech widow (John Hawksley’s sister) and Sarah Thompson spinster. John Hawksley and his business partner, the former hosier Robert Davison, had been operating a worsted mill they had built in 1788 on the north bank of the River Leen in Nottingham. After this mill had been destroyed by fire in January 1791, the two men decided to erect a new mill adjacent to Arnot Hill House. The new factory was operational before the end of 1791, but – despite its large scale and 60 horsepower (45,000 W) engine – was not a success. Davison’s death in 1807, followed by extensive losses in 1809, led to the closure and subsequent demolition of the mill. On 5 February 1810 in Nottingham, John Hawksley laid the foundations of another mill, whose engine had a power of 20 horsepower (15,000 W), and he relocated with his family to Sneinton that year. He died on 27 January 1815 in Cheshunt in Hertfordshire and he appears on the family plaque in St Nicholas Church on Maid Marian Way, Nottingham. One of John Hawksley and Sarah Thompson’s children was Thomas Hawksley, born 12 July 1807, who attended Nottingham High School and was articled in 1822 by the architect and surveyor Edward Staveley, going on to become a partner in Staveley’s business. Thomas Hawksley eventually became a prominent civil engineer in the 19th century. Thomas Hawksley and his son Charles Hawksley, grandson Kenneth Phipson Hawksley, and great grandson, Thomas Edwin Hawksley (died 1972) were civil engineers specialising in public water supplies. In the early 1830s, Thomas Hawksley used a filtration system and other improvements to the water supply to greatly reduce the death rate from cholera in Nottingham. There is a common misconception that John Hawksley the manufacturer married Mary Whittle. This is a mistake; there is a marriage between a John Hawksley and Mary Whittle on 25 October 1803 but he was a barber/hairdresser. It was in 1803 that Sarah Thompson gave birth to Maria Hawksley on 19 March. John the manufacturer died in 1815 and John the barber was still alive living with Mary a fact recorded in the 1841 and 1851 censuses. The mistake is rooted in an erroneous family tree produced in 1896 by Ida Hawksley, the wife of Charles Hawksley. The details of Ida’s tree were made available by a living descendant of the Hawksley family and the corrections detailed above, including the differences in generation, are based on parish records, John Hawksley’s will and the Hawksley family plaque in St Nicholas’ Church in Nottingham. This confusion regarding the two men named John Hawksley living in Nottingham is added to by the birth of sons to both men, in the same year, 1807. John Hawksley, the hairdresser, had a son named Edward John Hawskley (1808-1875). The son was a Unitarian who converted to Roman Catholicism and later rose to acclaim as a political radical in New South Wales, Australia. After fighting in Spain with the British Auxiliary Legion in the Carlist Wars, Edward John Hawksley was encouraged to emigrate to New South Wales. Once there he was employed as a teacher, became warden of the Sydney Holy Catholic Guild (1848), and wrote religious pamphlets. He edited and published The Sydney Chronicle (1846-7) and the short-lived Daily News with Charles St Julian before working with Francis Cunninghame as editor of The People’s Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator. From 1863–70 Hawksley was employed at the Australian Government Printing Office before retiring to Fiji, where he died in 1875. The headquarters of Gedling Borough Council are located in the Civic Centre at Arnot Hill Park.

Railway

Arnold was an important junction on the Nottingham Suburban Railway, Leen Valley Line and Friar Gate Line. It was closed along with the rest of the lines between 1916 and 1964. The station was located on Mansfield Road on what is now a retail park.

Arnold, Nottinghamshire toponymy

Arnold was referred to as “Ernehale” in Domesday Book of 1086. This name meant ‘place frequented by eagles’ or ‘the valley of eagles’. Local topography suggests that Arnold can never have been a haunt of eagle roosting place.

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Carrington Baptist Church, Nottingham Carrington Baptist Church was a Baptist church on Sherbrooke Road, Carrington, Nottingham which was opened in 1883. It was located in Carrington.

Church of St John the Evangelist, Carrington St. John the Evanglist, Carrington is a parish church in Carrington, Nottingham. The church is Grade II listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as it is a building of special architectural or historic interest.

Coppice Hospital The Coppice Hospital was a mental health facility in Mapperley, Nottingham, England. It was located on the outskirts of Nottingham.

Mapperley Hall Built by Ichabod Wright in 1792, it was the home of the Wright family of bankers until the end of the nineteenth century. From about 1900 the building was used as part of the University College Nottingham, the Principal being Professor Amos Henderson. It was later used for offices and became a Grade II listed building on 12 July 1972.

Cross Street Baptist Church Cross Street Baptist Church is on Cross Street in Arnold, Nottinghamshire. The church is located on the corner of Cross Street Road, Arnold, in Notts.

Gedling Miners Welfare F.C. Gedling Miners Welfare Football Club is a football club based in Nottinghamshire. They are currently members of the United Counties League Division One and play at the Plains Social Club.

Daybrook Baptist Church Daybrook Baptist Church is on Mansfield Road in Daybrook, near Arnold, Nottingham. The church is located in the area of Nottingham.

Bestwood Pumping Station Bestwood Pumping Station was a water pumping station operating in Nottinghamshire from 1874 until 1964. The station was operating between 1874 and 1964.

Woodthorpe Grange Park Woodthorpe Grange Park is a Green Flag–awarded public park located in Sherwood, Nottingham, on the northern edge of the city. It includes a tropical plant house, a nursery, formal landscaped gardens and a café. Sporting facilities include football pitches, a children’s play area and a pitch and putt course.

Mapperley Hospital Mapperley Hospital is a mental health facility on Porchester Road in Nottingham, England. It is located in the city centre of Nottingham.

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