Housing and Buildings Timeline

  • First Council Houses 1920’s – Watnall Road followed by Central Avenue, Windmill Avenue & Grove and William Street, together with some private development.
  • ? Date – Palmer Avenue purchased by Council, demolished Palmers Tenements and built old peoples Bungalows.
  • Early 30’s – further Council Houses on Nottingham Road, Brookside with additional work on Washdyke Lane, Addison Drive and Greenwood Avenue.
  • Bungalows on Bestwood Road and houses – St.John’s Crescent.
  • Ruffs Farm and Nabbs Farm purchased from Portland Estates.
  • Ruffs Estate begun in 1937. Contractor – G & C Whittle of Arnold.
  • ?Date – land on Wighay Road purchased from Linby Colliery
  • ?Date – Oakenhall (off Wigwam Lane) build by T.W.Joyce. Cost of houses £400 or £425 with bay window.
  • 1936 – Long Hill Rise started.
  • Thoresby Dale Est. – previously site of old mill dam built by Hustwayte.
  • ?date – Northill Est. built by ~E.E.Stow – houses £390 – £540.
  • In this period, Bodill, Hanson and Plumbs built houses in Nottingham Road, Wood Lane, Sandy Lane, Watnall Road and Papplewick Lane.
  • 600 dwellings – Beauvale Estate by McCarthy’s(21 original houses on Rockside Gardens – 1930’s) Coopers built 600 dwellings, mainly for rent but sold to owners in 1950’s.

  • POST WAR - all post war houses were built under government licence.
  • Ruffs Estate begun in 1936/37, named after Ruffs Farm, halted in 1939 with the outbreak of war. Resumed in 1949 - 50 more homes built, with space for 600 more.
  • Other small pockets on Broomhill (Welbeck Estate – early 1950’s to rehouse, many families from Butlers Hill, e.g. Whyburn Street demolished in 1955); also Sandy Lane and Wood Lane allotments.
  • Note: 25 Cherry Avenue, Welbeck Est. was the 1,000 built for Hucknall Council since 1945.

POPULATION GROWTH
  • 1939: 19,890
  • 1949: 21,350

  • Pre-fabricated houses put on Beardall St.,Gilbert St., and Peveril St.
  • 1946 : 16 council houses built on Beauvale Road.
  • 1947 : 2,400 houses approved by government.
  • 1948 : Third stage of Ruffs Estate. Some private housing allowed. 35 approved. Approval also given for Holgate Infant School (first new school in town since 1870’s)
  • 1949 : 80 houses allowed, 10 for private builders, remainder on Wighay Road.(built in 1951)
  • 1950 : Estate begun on Garden Road allotments.

  • 1940 – 1960 demolition of unfit property continued.
  • 1963 – Building St., Orchard St.,Byron St., Truman St., area being redeveloped.
  • 1969 – Demolition of Belle Isle Road and George Street.
  • 1980’s Right to Buy introduced and many tenants did so.
  • From 1960’s Private Developments.
  • Latest 80’s/90’s – Use of Brownfield sites. (Land between Vaughan Estate and Railway. Land of former School – Magdalene Way. Vedonis Park. Vyella Mews.)
Above information and details of street names and a heritage trail for houses is from Houses, Houses, Houses by C.J.Turner for Hucknall Heritage Society.
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 The following information is taken from History of Hucknall in the Local Studies section, Hucknall Library:-
  • 1951 Holgate infants school opens.
  • 1952 Holgate junior school opens.
  • 1957 Scala cinema closes.
  • 1960 Holy Cross Church, Watnall Road, opens.
  • 1965 Grammar School opens.
  • 1966 Catholic School, Walk Mill Drive, opens.
  • 1967 Hucknall Zoo opens.
  • 1968 East Side Methodist Church opens.
  • 1969 18thC Manor Farm (Station Road area) demolished to form Car Park.
  • 1970 Church of Christ – Watnall Road – closed.
  • 1972 Gt.Northern Cottages, Linby Road, lose Victorian type outside privies and join flush type system.
  • 1989 New Central Methodist Church opens.
  • 1992 Leisure Centre, Swimming Pool opened by Duncan Goodhew.
  • 1993 Hucknall By-Pass opens
  • 1993 Robin Hood Railway Line opens..
  • 1994 Butlers Hill School demolished. Fine Fare Premises, Nottingham Rd. Demolished, plans for housing development. (e.g. Jenny Butcher Way,etc.). Co-op Store,Hucknall Market, closes. Beardall Street Girls School demolished. Silverdale OP Home opens – Sept. Proposals for Housing Development off High Leys Road near Annie Holgate School.
  • 1995 White Rose Nursing Home opens on site of Butlers Hill School. Proposals for housing development on site of former Zoo (near Bowman Inn), and on former Vedonis Factory site on Watnall Road. Housing also considered for former Gatehouse Sports Ground on Linby Road.
  • 1996 International Clothing Centre opens. Plans considered for OP Home on site of former Petrol Service Station, Annesley Road. (Annesley Lodge). Housing also considered for former Linby Colliery Site, i.e. Waterloo Road.
  • 1998 Proposals to develop for housing the area occupied by Vyella and Stag Factories (i.e. Caddaw Avenue/Park Drive)
  • 1999 Vyella Factory demolished. Homes built on former allotments on Linby Road. New College opens on Portland Road.
  • 2001 Homes built on former Highfields factory site on Byron St.
  • 2002 Houses built on former pit site on Portland Road, behind Iceland Store. Hucknall Co-op Building, Market Place, transformed into apartments.
  • 2004 Trams come to Hucknall (trialled in 2003) now opened to public. New houses built on Sherwood Street – former yard of Bodills Builders. Plans for housing development on “Pinfold Site”, corner of Annesley Road/Baker Street.
Some information also extracted from “Streets of Hucknall” by Heritage Society.
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