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Beeston is an unparished area and has no town council, though it was a civil parish until 1935. [28] The parish area was reduced in 1933, with some lands in the east transferred to the City of Nottingham. Boundary posts were erected on the new Beeston-Nottingham boundary and many are still in place today, with "1933" marked on them.
By 1926, John Boot had bought back the company and in 1927, renamed the Boots Pure Drug Company, it purchased a new 200-acre (81 ha) site at Beeston, outside of Nottingham, which became the Boots Factory Site. [3] Work began immediately and Owen Williams, an architect and engineer, was engaged to design a range of buildings on the site.
In 1904-05, Beeston Urban District Council undertook improvement and widening works on Brown Lane (which ran from High Road to Middle Street). Brown Lane South (which ran to the junction with Nether Street), and with Victoria Avenue (constructed in the 1890s from the junction with Nether Street to Queens Road), they were all renamed Station Street.
St John the Baptist Church, Beeston 75-83 by John Bowley 1908 and 85-93, all now demolished. 5 Architect Joseph Warburton 1910 (demolished 1965) 7 House and shop. Architect Charles Nelson Holloway 1909 (demolished 1965) St John the Baptist Church, Beeston [4] The Grange, Beeston [5] ca. 1820; 17-19. Semi-detached houses. Architect James ...
4 Glebe Street, built 1878. Following the enclosure of the land surrounding Beeston in 1809 the area of St John's Grove was allotted to the vicar of the parish church.In 1878 the land was acquired from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners by the Beeston Land Society, a group of citizens, who divided the land out into 28 plots of between three-quarters and 1-acre (0.40 ha) and set out the wide ...
Beeston, Cheshire, a village and civil parish Beeston Castle; Beeston Castle and Tarporley railway station; Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, a suburb of Leeds. Beeston railway station (West Yorkshire) Beeston, Norfolk, a village; Beeston Regis; Beeston St Andrew; Beeston St Lawrence, a former parish which is now part of Ashmanhaugh; Beeston with ...
Non-metropolitan district and borough in England Broxtowe Non-metropolitan district and borough Broxtowe Beeston, the largest settlement and administrative centre of the borough Shown within Nottinghamshire Sovereign state United Kingdom Constituent country England Region East Midlands Administrative county Nottinghamshire Founded 1974 Admin. HQ Beeston Government • Type Borough Council (non ...
Thomas Humber (1841–1910) [1] founded a bicycle manufacturing business at Nottingham which moved about 1878 to Beeston, Nottinghamshire. By 1887, still under his day-to-day management, it was owned by a public listed company, Humber & Co Limited. Thomas Humber improved cycle technology through the independence of his thinking and his ...