Description: Shows the Sir Charles Napier Public House. Named after General Sir Charles Napier. He was Commander in Chief of troops in the north of England between 1839 and 1841, which was the period of the first violent outbreak of Chartism. Napier was a down-to-earth man with a well-developed social conscience; he had little sympathy with politicians whatever their party but he did have a great deal of sympathy with the poor in the north. He wrote an account which tells of the mayor and gentry of Nottingham helping the poor, many of which were Chartists, to subvert the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act by raising a public subscription (in it he recognised the hatred of those in need of welfare relief of the 'new' system, which would force them into The Workhouse. The public subscription would give money directly to those in need.). (Information extracted from Sir William Napier's, 'Life of General Sir Charles James Napier (1857, II, 111-133)'.) The publican at the time of the picture was Ellen England. Also showing the entrance lodge to the Arboretum. From the tablet on the Lodge visitors will learn that it was opened to the public May 11, 1852. It comprised seventeen acres, and presents within itself a landscape, Aviary, a People's Park, and an ornamental Garden. The Nottingham Enclosure Act 1845 enclosed fields and meadows, used by the burgesses of freeholders of the City to graze their animals, and to compensate for the loss of open space used for recreation, allotted space for a series of places of public recreation and public walks. One hundred and thirty acres made up of Queen's Walk and Queen's Walk Park, Victoria Park, Robin Hood Chase, Corporation Oaks, St Ann's Hill Avenue, Nottingham Arboretum (seen here), the General Cemetery, Waterloo Promenade, the Church Cemetery and the Forest were created as public open spaces from the enclosures.