1873 - Hicking Building - Queen's Road - Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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The Hicking Building, a former lace warehouse on Queen's Street, Nottingham, built 1873.
Waymark Code: WMZ7RZ
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/24/2018
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The Hicking Building was built in 1873 as part of a large complex of lace warehouses. The building is now used, amongst other things, as a bar/restaurant.
"Hicking.—George Hicking, West Cliff House, The Park, Nottingham; born at Eastwood, Notts, January 4th, 1834; educated at Eastwood and Nottingham. Entered the service of the Midland Railway Company in 1851, as Clerk in the office of the Superintendent of the Line at Derby, and was promoted, at the age of twenty-three, to be Station Master at the Midland Railway Station, Nottingham; subsequently entered into partnership with his cousin in the wine and spirit trade in Market Street, Nottingham, and afterwards, in conjunction with his sons, established the businesses of George Hicking and Son, wine merchants and grocers, Carrington Street, and G. and W. N. Hicking, lace dyers and dressers, Queen's Road Works, and Station Street Works; relinquished his interest in the former business in favour of his son in 1893."
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