Then and Now #8 - Jesse Boot's Plaisaunce Summer House
The back view on Wilford Lane. Flats built in the 60's where Plaisaunce house stood.
Further down on Wilford Lane The Chateau - now demolished.
Timeline around this area
1838 The tithe map showed that the Lordship of West Bridgford was 1078 acres, of which 985 acres were West Bridgford Estate land owned by the Lord of the Manor John Musters, 58 acres owned by Clifford Caunt of The Poplars Farm and 33 acres were glebe land, on permanent lease to the Rector of St Giles Church.
1851 Census shows 258 people living in 51 houses in West Bridgford. 1872 Basford Rural Sanitory Authority was set up in place of the Basford Board of Guardians and Poor Law Union and had jurisdiction over West Bridgford.
1880 The first plots of West Bridgford Estate land are offered for housing development by John Chaworth Musters. 1881 Census showed 293 people living in 55 houses in West Bridgford.
1882 Nottingham Corporation agree to supply water to West Bridgford through a Trent Bridge pipeline at a cost 33% above that charged to Nottingham residents.
1889 (June) The Lordship of West Bridgford and the remaining estate lands were sold by John Patricius Musters to Col Horatio Davies of Wateringbury Place, Kent 1891 Census shows 2502 people living in 519 houses in West Bridgford. 1894 An elected West Bridgford Urban District Council replaced the West Bridgford Local Board.
1901 Census shows 7018 people living in 1559 houses in West Bridgford. 1906 Welbeck suspension bridge opened. Main function was to carry water from Wilford Hill resevoir to the Meadows.
1910 Opening of West Bridgford Masonic Hall in Welbeck Road. 1911 Census showed 11632 people living in 2864 houses in West Bridgford.
1921 Census showed 13346 people living in 3440 houses in West Bridgford. 1931 Census shows 17821 people living in 5065 houses in West Bridgford. 1935 Edwalton and Wilford incorporated into West Bridgford Urban District.
1952 Land west of the LNER railway line (including Wilford village) was transferred to Nottingham City Council and land south of the Trent was transferred to West Bridgford UDC. For the first time County Hall and Forest Football Ground became part of West Bridgford.