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History information for Basford and places above it in the hierarchy

Basford

  • Basford was a major centre for frameowrk knitting in the 1800s and early 1900s.
     
  • Several Framework Knitter families moved to Calai in the early 1800s.
     
  • Basford used to be a major soap manufacturing town. A factory was established in the 1890s by Gerard Bros., which in 1955 was acquired by Cussons Sons & Co, manufacturer of Cussons Imperial Leather soap. In 2005 the factory was closed.
     
  • You might want to get a subscription to the Basford Bystander and keep track of what is happening in the area. The site offers copies of the newsletter in Portable Document File format for Adobe Acrobat Reader by e-mail.
     
  • J. THOMAS has a photograph of The Vernon public house on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2017.

The London Gazette, October 1841, carried this notice:

"A David TRUEMAN, formerly of King Street, New Basford Nottingham, residing at Edmund's Place, Aldergate St., London, Lace Dealer, Commission Agent for the Sale of Lace, and Manchester Warehouseman, afterwards of No. 9. Wallbrook Buildings, New Road, Hoxton, Middx, in business first at No. 98 Wood St. Cheapside and afterwards of No. 18 Maiden Lane, Cheapside, Lace Dealer, Commission Agent, and Manchester warehouseman, then of Shand's place, New Peckham, then of No. 35 Gainsford St., Horsleydown, then of No 8. Salisbury Place, Walworth, then of Rodney Buildings, New Kent Rd. Surrey, in business at No. 71 Lower Thames St. afterwards at No 98 Lower Thames St. aforesaid, as a Foreign Merchant and General Dealer and Dealer in Lace and Manchester Warehouseman at No 4 Skinner Place, Sise Lane, London, occasionally residing at Ostend, in Belgium, and Rotterdam, in Holland, as Merchant, then of Green Mount Place, Beeston Hill Near Leeds, Wharfinger, then of same place, then of No 31 Bedford Place, Park Lane, Leeds, and late of Brewer's Place, Hunset, near Leeds, Wharfinger and Coal Merchant, at Bishop-Wharf Leeds, also at Kingston upon Hull, Coal Merchant, under the style or firm of David Trueman and Company."

Nottinghamshire

  • The Thoroton Society tells us that the county of Nottinghamshire was created around 1,000 years ago by the Anglo-Saxon monarchy as a means of stabilizing the kingdom after Viking invasions.
     
  • Some of Nottinghamshire's history lies underground. Fly through some caves just off Peel Street on Youtube.
     
  • Read about Nottinghamshire history.
     
  • The manpower shortages caused by World War One was a great boon to women who moved into factory and clerical jobs that had primarily been male-oriented in the past. The trend was noticed in the Newark Great War Bulletin of June 21st, 1915.
     
  • The Newark Great War Bulletin of August 23rd, 1915 notes that recent rainstorms have ruined crops. Coupled with depredations from U-Boats, the paper notes the scarcity of produce and the threat of inflation.
     

England

  • England - History - links and information.

UK and Ireland

  • UK & Ireland - History - links and information.