Excerpt from The City of Nottingham: Past, Present and Future; Its Special Advantages as a Commercial Centre and as a Place of Residence

But it is as a commercial centre-that Nottingham has the greatest practical importance and interest. Situated in the very middle of England, and also in the centre of one of the most important coalfields in the county (having several large collieries within the city boundaries), with an ironstone area a few miles away, with economising haulage, and with all public services - gas, electricity, water, trams - municipally controlled and managed on soundly successful commercial lines, it is a fortunate place of abode for the manufacturer and trader. The excellent railway communication with London makes it an eligible place of residence for families of refinement. The health record is excellent, and the Public Health service has a high reputation for efficiency among experts qualified to judge. Not many manufacturing places have a lower death-rate. The supply of labour, both male and female, is abundant and well-trained, technical schools and a school of art doing excellent work for employers in preparing and improving the character of the labour. The educational facilities for children of good families are abundant, comprising high schools and a university college, where a complete curriculum is available, while the free elementary schools and the secondary schools subsidised by the Corporation provide for the children of the large working-class population.

The facts thus briefly summarised - to be developed in fuller detail in the next few pages - will show how advantageous a site Nottingham affords to the highly varied industries at present carried on there. It will be shown that similar advantages are available to manufacturing and distributing firms seeking an abode or a place of extension. The progress of Nottingham during recent years in all departments will be proved and illustrated. Nottingham is a growing business centre, where labour is cheap, abundant, and provided with easy access to the factory district; where electric power, gas for industrial purposes, water, and transit are all economical; and where, at the same time, the surroundings are agreeable for a business man who has a family to consider. When all is taken into account, there is no place within the length and breadth of the fair land of England that can compare with this ancient but modernised and beautiful city of Nottingham.

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