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From Robert Mellors, Old Nottingham suburbs: then and now, (1914) for New Radford:
The Church. Was it owing to poverty, or was it spiritual apathy, that caused the Church people to make no spiritual provision beyond the parish church at Old Radford for fifty years, when the population had become over ten thousand, and there were fourteen nonconformist chapels in the seven hamlets then included in the parish? The first chapel seems to have been built in 1798, in Chapel street, of which it is recorded, "a Sunday school was established in 1800, and was the only Sunday school (in the villages) within a circuit of several miles, and children from Basford and Bilborough regularly attended." The Wesleyans followed in 1805.
Christ Church is named in 1844 as then being in course of erection, but it was not consecrated until 1847. It has now extensive Sunday and Day Schools, a Mission Hall, etc. The Rev. T. Pyper was Vicar from 1867 to 1902. In the Day Schools Mr. W. Williams, M.A., has been the valued Head Master for 80 years, and some of the boys have made a splendid success.
There are large Council Schools, and the Public Baths, Bethel Chapel (1857), etc., and great factories for the manufacture of lace, cotton doubling, hosiery, embroideries, bobbins and carriages, and other industries.
http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/mellorsarticles/radford2.htmJane