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Booth’s homes in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
Notintone Place, Sneinton.
William Booth was born at 12 Notintone Place, Sneinton, Nottingham on 10th April 1829 and lived in the three-storey, red brick Georgian terraced house with his family until they moved to Bleasby, Nottinghamshire in 1831. It is now the William Booth Birthplace Museum and is open to the public for both individual and group bookings. More information about the Museum and visiting the Museum is available on the William Booth Birthplace Museum webpage (www.salvationarmy.org.uk/william-booth-birthplace-museum).
The Booth family subsequently moved to other properties in Nottinghamshire:
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From 1831-1835 the Booth family rented a smallholding in Bleasby. The property that is thought to have been the property the family rented is referred to as ‘Ellmore’s Farm’ by St John Ervine [pp10-11] , and it is believed to be the property now known as ‘The Old Farm’, on Main Street, though locally there is no certainty that this was the property.
Old Farm, Bleasby. - A property in Sneinton Road, Nottingham (according to the 1841 Census), most likely on the corner of Bond Street, Nottingham, now near the space between Sneinton Road and Bond Street. In the Electoral Registers (1841-43) Samuel Booth's abode was given as Sneinton Road.
- A property in Brougham Street, Nottingham, from approximately 1844-1848. White's Directory of 1844 has Mrs Booth in Brougham Street, as has Lascelles and Hagar's Commercial Directory in 1848. In the 1851 Census, Mrs Booth (with daughters Emma and Mary) were at 19 Ferguson Street, Nottingham, but by this time William was living in London.
Other buildings
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St Stephen’s Church, Sneinton, where Booth was christened on 12th April 1829 and where he attended Sunday School in his later childhood.
St Stephen's church, Sneinton. - St Mary’s Church, Bleasby, where it is thought that Booth ‘learned his letters’ in the vestry room.
- Halifax Place Academy (later sometimes referred to as ‘Biddulph’s Academy), a school run by Sampson Biddulph, a Wesleyan Local Preacher, where Booth attended from about 1836-1842, is now The Lace Market Theatre, Nottingham.
- Wesley Chapel in Broad Street, where Booth attended church from approximately 1842-1849, is now the Broadway Cinema. Booth said that he transferred there from the Church of England when he was 13 years old.