Image ID: 19681

Strelley Hall, Main Street, Strelley, 1908

off Main Street
Strelley
England

This location was used in Alan Sillitoe's book (1958) 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' (but not the film of 1960). Alan Sillitoe's family lived off Salisbury Street and he drew on his own experiences of life in Nottingham for the story. His main character, Arthur Seaton, worked at the Raleigh factory opposite. Karel Reisz, the film's director used many parts of Nottingham throughout to add realism to the film, but this building did not make it into the film. Strelley Hall is located to the west of Nottingham, in a picturesque locality. It stands next to Strelley church. Within the church are some splendid monuments of the ancient family of Stradlegh or Strelley, who took their name from the village, and were associated with it for several centuries. As far back as the reign of Henry I. (A.D. 1100-1135), Walter de Stradlegh or Strelley was the principal owner of the parish, and from him it descended to his son Samson, one of the warlike Nottinghamshire gentry who took up arms in behalf of Earl John. This conduct of the representative of the Strelleys did not meet with the approval of King Richard, and Strelley was seized by him, but when John came to the throne his adherent was abundantly recompensed for this. Successive members of the family took part in most of the national events and baronial conflicts of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Strelleys were called to perform military service against Wallace in Scotland, and one of them, Robert, was made a leader of levies in Notts in 1313, and in 1324 represented the county at a great council at Westminster. After being in the hands of a family whose proud boast it was to have had twelve generations honoured with knighthood, the manor was eventually sold. In 1651 the Strelley Estate was sold to a Nottingham lawyer Ralph Edge. Single ownership of the estate by the Edge family continued up to 1978 with the death of Miss E M Edge who left no heirs to the estate. All repairs, replacement and new building work was sanctioned by the Edge family and consequently allowed Strelley to retain its historic character and parkland setting. It is now used as a company headquarters.

Date: 1908

Organisation Reference: NCCS003067

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