Radford

You will want to check out the Radford-Lenton Library as a research asset.

And, if you need a picture to help you find the building, Alan MURRAY-RUST provides a portrait of the building on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2008.

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

• The churchyard was extended in 1869.
   
• John SUTTON has a photograph of St Peter's Lych Gate on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2012.
   

• The parish was in the Lenton sub-district of the Radford Registration District until 1880.
   
• In 1880, the Radford Registration District was abolished, so the parish was assigned to the Hyson Green sub-district of the Nottingham Registration District after 1880.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• There was a church here by 1171 AD as part of a Priory.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter.
   
• An old church was demolished in 1811.
   
• The church was rebuilt from the rubble of the old one in 1812.
   
• The church chancel was consecrated in 1872.
   
• The church seats 370.
   
• John SUTTON has a photograph of St Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2009.
   
• John SUTTON has a photograph of the north side of St Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2010.
   
• Roger TEMPLEMAN has a photograph of St Peter's Tower on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2013.
   
• "New Radford" is an ecclesiastical parish formed in April, 1845. In it, Christ Church was erected in 1847 on the Ilkeston Road. It seated 1,000, but was demolished in 1950.
   
• All Souls Church, Radford, was the last Anglican church of the 19th century to be erected in Radford. The church was opened in 1895. In 1943 nearby Christ Church was closed and for seven years its parish was in the care of All Souls. In 1979, this church was closed and was demolished.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1556.
   
• The register for Christ Church dates from 1845.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a small chapel built here in 1805 and enlarged it in 1828.
   
• The United Free Methodists had a chapel built here in St. Peter's Street in 1878 but closed it in 1947.
   
• John SUTTON has a photograph of the United Methodist chapel on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2015.
   
• A United Methodist chapel was built here in Independent Street in 1912.
   
• There is a photograph of St. Paul's Catholic Church on Lenton Blvd. on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2008.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of St. Paul's Catholic Church on Lenton Blvd. on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2008.
   
• St. Paul's Catholic Church has an online History page.
   
• There is a photograph of the Evangelical Free Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2008.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Lenton sub-district of the Radford Registration District until 1880.
   
• In 1880, the Radford Registration District was abolished, so the parish was assigned to the Hyson Green sub-district of the Nottingham Registration District after 1880.
   

Radford is both a village and a parish just north of Nottingham city, 128 miles north of London and 9 miles north of Loughborough. The parish covered only 600 acres and has been incorporated into Nottingham city.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A609 arterial road west out of Nottingham city centre. The A609 bisects the village about 3 miles west of the city centre.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.
   

John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72,"  describes Radford as:

"RADFORD, a suburban town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district in Notts. The town is suburban to Nottingham; lies on the river Leen and on the Nottingham and Mansfield railway, 1½ mile W N W of the centre of Nottingham; consists of two parts, called Old R. and New R.; increased its population nearly sixfold between 1801 and 1861; shares largely in the manufactures of Nottingham, chiefly lace and stockings; and has a post-office under Nottingham, a railway-station, two churches, six dissenting chapels, a national school, a workhouse, and charities £12.
St. Peter's church was rebuilt in 1812; and is a neat Gothic edifice, with a tower. Christchurch was built in 1845, and is in New Radford. The parish includes Kensington, New Coleorton, and part of Hyson-Green, and comprises 1,000 acres. Real property, £27,659. Pop. in 1851, 12,637; in 1861, 13,495. Houses, 2,858. The manor belongs to J. S. Gregory, Esq. Gas-works were erected in 1844; and coal is mined. The living of St. Peter is a vicarage, and that of Christchurch is a p. curacy, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value of the former, £293; of the latter, £300. Patron of the former, the Lord Chancellor; of the latter, alternately the Crown and the Bishop."

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Radford to another place.

John SUTTON has a photograph of Player Street after the fire of March 2015 on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2015.

John SUTTON has a photograph of The Plough Pub. on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2017.

John SUTTON has a photograph of The Pheasant Inn on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012.

J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Gregory Public House on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2016.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of The Old Peacock (now closed) on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2014.

SK53 has a photograph of the Marquis of Lorne (now closed) on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2013.

Richard VINGE has a photograph of the Colonel Burnaby pub. on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2013.

Peter McKAY has a photograph of the White Horse pub. on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2008.

From The Nottingham Evening Post, September 25, 1929.

ALLEGED BETTING MACHINES
NOTTM. SOLICITOR EXPLAINS WORKING TO BENCH
GROCER SUMMONED
Four automatic machines, which it was alleged, had been used for the purposes of betting, 
were exhibited at the Nottingham Guildhall this afternoon, when Charles Warrener and Elizabeth 
Warrener, of Vane street, Radford, were summoned for using 23 Rancliffe street and permitting 
betting with a bell fruit machine, a cock machine, a betting machine, and a clown machine.

Agnes Warrener was summoned as the occupier of 23, Rancliffe street, for having permitted 
betting with the above machines. The three defendants were represented by Mr. A. M. Lucas, 
(instructed by Messrs. Whitworth and Eccleston), and pleaded not guilty.

Mr. F. Clayton, who represented the police said that Charles and Elizabeth Warrener were the 
joint tenants of the grocer's shop carried on at 23 Rancliffe street, which was managed by 
Agnes Warrener.

Explaining the working of the machines found on the premises, Mr. Clayton said successful 
operators of the machines having first inserted a coin were able to draw money or checks 
which entitled them to exchange them for goods at the counter.

Proceedings were taken under the Betting Act and it was his submission there could be no 
defence that skill was involved in the manipulation.

The consideration of skill with chance did not arise if the Bench were satisfied that the 
machines were being played on for money or money's worth. 

END

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK554405 (Lat/Lon: 52.959018, -1.176739), Radford which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• John SUTTON has a photograph of the War Memorial Cross on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2010. This is just outside St. Peter's churchyard.
   
• St. Peter's Church has a memorial board located on the north wall of the chancel and it has 341 names in columns with gold leaf embellishments.
   
• In All Souls Church, a Book of Remembrance and a Roll of Honour was produced. The whereabouts of the two Books of Remembrance is currently unknown.
   
• In All Souls Church, a side chapel was dedicated to the fallen of both wars.
   

• For a list of names on the War Memorial, see the Nottingham County Council site.
   
• Pte Thomas George YOELL, Army Service Corps, Died 24th November 1918 (after the Armistice), husband of Edith Caroline YOELL.
   
• From the Nottingham Evening Post March 22, 1916:

"Pte John JARVIS 8th Sherwood Foresters 123 Salisbury street Radford killed in action Nov 12th (1915) aged 17 years." John was buried at Suvla Bay. Served in the 9th Battalion, Notts and Derby Rgt., died (according to CWGC) on 13 Nov 1915.

Pronounced "RAD-fud" by the locals, it is often found as Retford in many records.

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake.
   
• In 1880, a detached part of this Civil Parish was attached to Lenton Civil Parish in exchange for a portion of Lenton parish.
   
• In March, 1897, this Civil Parish was abolished and amalgamated into Nottingham Civil Parish (Nottingham City).
   

• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1768.
   
• Prior to 1834, Radford had a parish workhouse for poor at St. Peter's Street. The institution was later known as Peveril House.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became the center of the Radford Poor Law Union.
   
• In July, 1880, this parish was re-assigned to the Nottingham Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	2,269
1811	3,447
1821	4,806
1831	9,806
1841	10,817
1851	12,637
1871	15,209
1881	20,954
1891	38,718
1901	35,354

• In 1911, the former Union house in Hartley Road was being used as the Nottingham Children's Training Institution. Most of the students were from the workhouse. The girls were taught domestic skills like sewing, food preparation, cleaning and laundry. At age 12 to 14 the girls were promoted to the public as efficient domestic servants for hire. The boys were educated to about the same age and were deemed suitable for factory or field work or farm animal care.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Old School and school house on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2014.