Venue

The Albert Hall Conference Centre, Nottingham

The Albert Hall
North Circus Street(Off Derby Road)
Nottingham
England
NG1 5AA

Telephone: 0115 9500411
Fax: 0115 947 6512
Email: alberthall@alberthallnottingham.com

The conference will take place in the historic Albert Hall Conference Centre in central Nottingham.

In the early 1870's the Good Templars and others were looking for a site for a Nottingham Temperance Hall. Mr Watson Fothergill, the fashionable and award winning local architect, won the commission but although the foundation stone was laid in September 1873 funds soon ran out.

 The dream of a temperance hall seemed to be in jeopardy but a rescue bid was put together with the formation of a limited liability company. Work resumed on what was to become the Albert Hall, a prestigious and expensive building costing some £14,000.

The Albert Hall was the City's largest concert hall and a major venue for political rallies. But by the turn of the century it was quite clear it would never be able to generate enough cash to avoid frequent financial crises.

Fortunately, the Wesleyans were at this time seeking big city venues for their great central missions. The Albert Hall came on the market in 1901 and was brought by a syndicate of local businessmen for £8,450, opening as a mission in September 1902.

Although the outstanding debt was a millstone, the work of the mission went from strength to strength until 22nd April 1906 when fire swept through the building.

This disaster became a double blow when the Methodists learned the Hall was under-insured and they would have to raise a substantial sum of money to rebuild. Undeterred, the community raised the cash and sought another architect. This time, a prominent local Methodist, Mr A E Lambert, who had been responsible for the terracotta Midland Station, was asked to produce a plan. His new Albert Hall Methodist Mission was built in the style of an Edwardian Theatre or Music Hall and, in the practice of temperance halls, concerts and other events were staged in the building ...

 

Getting to Nottingham

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Taxis

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