Gladstone Avenue

Gladstone Street, off East Street was built by the builder Mr Duffty in 1903. It began on a plot of land 40 feet wide by 77 feet long [12m x 23.5m]. At the far side of the plot there was access through a five-barred gate to a rough track that later became Gladstone Avenue. At the end of this track on the right were two semi-detached houses called Gladstone Cottages that are still there today [2008]. In the 1891 census we find the first cottage occupied by a 'plaster' miner with his family. In the second cottage lived a bricklayer with his family.

Gladstone Street was renamed Gladstone Avenue, probably when the postal district for Gotham was changed from Kegworth, Derby to Nottingham during the ’thirties. According to the electoral registers this took place during 1935. The street was of course named after the great liberal prime minister, William Ewart Gladstone [1809-98], who served four terms as Prime Minister between 1868 and 1894.