High Road, Beeston

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High Road, Beeston
High Road, Beeston ca. 1912.jpg
High Road, Beeston ca. 1912
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Location within Nottinghamshire
Maintained by Broxtowe Borough Council
Coordinates 52°55′39″N1°12′51″W / 52.92750°N 1.21417°W / 52.92750; -1.21417

High Road, Beeston is a pedestrianised shopping street in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. It runs from Beeston Square to Humber Road.

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History

George the Beekeeper by Sioban Coppinger, 1987 Sculpture on the High Road.jpg
George the Beekeeper by Sioban Coppinger, 1987

The road was constructed as part of the Sawley to Nottingham turnpike road. In the 19th century, it was on the upper side of the village of Beeston and gained its name, High Road by the middle of the 19th century. By the end of the 19th century it was the principal shopping street, and has remained so into the 21st century.

In 1908, Ernest Anthony Bush, the surveyor to Beeston Urban District Council renumbered the properties on the High Road. [1]

Starting in 1965, the western end of the street in Post Office Square was redeveloped. All of the buildings on the south side of the street 2-10, including the National Provincial Bank which was only 30 years old, were demolished .

In 1987 a sculpture of a beekeeper commissioned by Broxtowe Borough Council and designed by Sioban Coppinger was installed in the street. [2] In 1989 the council installed a second piece of sculpture at the western end of the High Road in Beeston Square. Water Head was designed by Paul Mason.

In 2009 the pedestrian street was refurbished [3] with new paving and street furniture.

Notable buildings

North side

Nottingham and Notts Banking Company by Thomas Ignatius McCarthy 1907-08 Beeston Nat West - geograph.org.uk - 932116.jpg
Nottingham and Notts Banking Company by Thomas Ignatius McCarthy 1907-08
Durham Ox public house by Albert Edgar Eberlin 1925 The Durham Ox - geograph.org.uk - 904983.jpg
Durham Ox public house by Albert Edgar Eberlin 1925

South side

36 as Superdrug. Built as Woolworths by Harold Winbourne in 1934 Beeston Superdrug - geograph.org.uk - 1061584.jpg
36 as Superdrug. Built as Woolworths by Harold Winbourne in 1934
40-48 by William Vallance Betts High Road, Beeston (geograph 1826539).jpg
40-48 by William Vallance Betts

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