Radford, Nottingham
Radford is an inner-city area of Nottingham, located just outside the city centre itself. The appropriate ward of the City of Nottingham Council is called Radford and Park with a population of 21,414.[1] It is bounded on the south by Lenton and Nottingham City Centre, and comprises around 600 acres (2.4 km2) of land.
History
St Peter's Church, Radford was given by William Peveril to Lenton Priory. The church was rebuilt in 1812 at a cost of £2,000. The Wesleyan chapel was built in 1805 and enlarged in 1828.[2] In September 1878 a chapel was built on St Peter's Street by the United Methodist Free Churches at a cost of £1,900. It was closed owing to declining membership and income in June 1947 and purchased by the Evangelical Free Church.[3]
Radford Registration District (RD) was created on 1 July 1837 on the introduction of Statutory Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths (BMD) - and was abolished, and absorbed into Nottingham RD, on 1 July 1880.
Population by year
- 1811 - 5,704
- 1821 - 7,348
- 1831 - 16,568
- 1841 - 22,473
- 1851 - 12,635
- 1901 - 34,354
Background
The area has a large ethnic minority population (mainly West Indian, African, Asian and increasingly Polish), and accordingly there is a large number of specialist food and retail shops catering to specific cultures, owing to the relatively cheap nature of housing in the area (and the large number of old Victorian properties converted into flats and bedsits).
Radford has a large student population, most of whom attend the nearby Nottingham Trent University and University of Nottingham.
Industry
Radford was the home of
- Raleigh Industries once the world's largest bicycle producer
- Player's cigarettes, with a range of buildings housing factories, offices and warehouses
- Manlove, Alliott & Co. Ltd. inventors of incinerators for waste disposal.
Culture
It provides the backdrop for much of Alan Sillitoe's book Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Numerous scenes from the film of the book which starred Albert Finney were shot in Radford.
References
- ↑ "City of Nottingham ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- ↑ White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853
- ↑ In Every Generation: A brief history of the Methodist Churches in Nottingham 1764-1978, Rowland C Swift
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Coordinates: 52°57′36″N 1°10′37″W / 52.960°N 1.177°W