Newspaper cutting
Evening Post
Category
Ephemera
Date
22 Aug 1978
Materials
Newspaper
Measurements
157 x 220 mm
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 749699.11
Summary
One of a series of newspaper cuttings. 'Nottingham'. Numbers 21/1 - 21/12. A single page from the 'Evening Post, Tuesday, August 22, 1978', pages 5 and 6. 'Now you can play spot the Watson Fothergill by MARTIN STEVENSON THERE'S NO doubt that Watson Fothergill is an imposing name. It impresses itself on the mind in the same way that his buildings catch the eye as you walk around Nottingham. No doubt he thought it sounded rather grand too. For his real name was Fothergill Watson which doesn't have quite the same ring to it. And in 1892, when he was 51, he made the juxtaposition which gave him a name as ornate as his banks, temperance halls and pubs which are decorated with cats, dogs, owls, tigers, parrots, sheep and, in the case of the National Westminster Bank in Thurland Street, a monkey. ...'.
Makers and roles
Evening Post, printer and publisher