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Broadway in the Lace Market. The Lace Market is a historic quarter-mile square area in the centre of Nottingham, England. It was the centre of the world's lace industry during the British Empire and is now a protected heritage area. It was an area of salesrooms and warehouses for storing, displaying and selling
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The Nottingham Industrial Museum is a volunteer-run museum situated in part of the 17th-century stables block of Wollaton Hall, located in a suburb of the city of Nottingham. [1] The museum won the Nottinghamshire Heritage Site of the Year Award 2012 , a local accolade issued by Experience Nottinghamshire. [ 2 ]
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Leavers lace machines Border (ST293) - Lace-Machine Lace - MoMu Antwerp. The Leavers machine is a lacemaking machine that John Levers adapted from Heathcoat's Old Loughborough machine. It was made in Nottingham in 1813. The name of the machine was the Leavers machine (the 'a' was added to aid pronunciation in France).
Over the centuries, the courts and prison were developed and enlarged. In 1724, the courtroom floor collapsed. The Nottingham Courant in March 1724 recorded: [3]. On Monday morning after the Judge had gone into the County Hall, and a great crowd of people being there, a tracing or two that supported the floor broke and fell in and several people fell in with it, about three yards into the ...
It was built for George Henry Perry and Sons and comprises a 5 storey building, plus basement and attic. It had capacity for 234 standings of Levers lace making machines. In 1894, Perry purchased the clock from the Nottingham Guild Hall for £9 (equivalent to £1,294 in 2023) [3] with the intention of installing it in the boulevard works. [4]
On 2 September 1830, he married Lucy Cullen, daughter of a Nottingham businessman, in St Mary's Church, just a stone's throw away. He seems to have formed business partnerships, buying made lace goods and selling them on to wholesale and retail customers. In the mid-1830s, he was shown in local business directories as a lace manufacturer.