Chadborn Avenue

Gotham Properties Ltd built 16 bungalows in the late 1960s on Chadborn Avenue as part of the Curzon Street development. The avenue being named after William Cyril Chadborn [1899-1956].

William Cyril Chadborn was a clerical worker at Morris's in Loughborough and later at J W Sheppard Ltd, Gotham. During his lifetime, he served as a parish councillor, as chairman to the parish council and chairman of the school governors. He was also the superintendent of the Gotham Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School and a Methodist circuit secretary for South Nottinghamshire, besides running the Boy’s Club at the Youth Fellowship.

After the death of his first wife, he married Anne Elizabeth Baguley living on Leake Road. William Chadborn died at the City Hospital in November, 1956 and the funeral service took place at the Nottingham Road Methodist Church.