An 'outstanding' Victorian house set for destruction gives an insight into the town's once booming lace trade. Oban House in Beeston could be demolished to make way for a new GP surgery, but many fear its remarkable history will be lost under the rubble if plans go ahead.
Oban House, in Chilwell Road, was built in around 1890. It was a period of industrialisation and Beeston had become a "boom town" according to Valerie Henstock, of the Beeston and District Local History Society, in the Beeston Echoes local history magazine. It was the "age of the horse" and the house would go on to survive years of change and the further industrialisation of the country.
However the Manor Surgery, currently located in Middle Street in Beeston, is anticipating a significant rise in the number of patients. Estimates suggest the list will grow from 13,000 to 18,000 by 2025, and so it has been proposed a new and larger surgery should be built on the site of Oban House.
