Curzon Street

Curzon Street was known as Bag Lane until 1936. As early as 1838 George Harrison living in Nottingham had a freehold house and land in Bag Lane. This name most probably came from the hessian type bags made by framework knitters for use by farmers and others. The demand increased with the expansion of gypsum mining in Gotham during Victorian times. Bags were used to hold crushed gypsum products before the advent of the multi-ply paper sacks employed today.

A period map shows Bag Lane starting from Town Street, now Leake Road, running down to open fields and Curzon House probably built around 1850. The census indicates that this land was part of Meadow End Farm. Leading off Bag Lane was Hallam's Yard and Holland's Yard.

An earlier Wesleyan Chapel is nearby to the Hallam's Yard, which has now been divided into two houses.

The Curzon family connection with Gotham dares back to the ancestors of Sir Nathaniel Curzon, the 4th Baronet of Kedleston in Derbyshire who died in 1758. The Curzon family and The Earl Howe connection, have been lords of the Gotham manor until the majority of their Estate was sold in 1918.

Since the Second World War Curzon Street has been extended eastwards with the building of houses and bungalows erected during the 1960s. A number of small roads and estates were built on either side the extended Curzon Street.