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The Carmelite (White Friary) was founded in 1276 on land between Friar Lane and St James' Street known as Friar Yard. It was dissolved in February 1539. The building was replaced or partly rebuilt in the 17th century and the house was demolished in 1927 when Friar Lane was widened. In the 16th century, Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall reputedly eloped with John Manners. On Sir George's death, Dorothy inherited his estates. She and her husband lived chiefly at Haddon Hall, but they also spent part of their time in a wing of the old Friary, hence the name Dorothy Vernon's house.
Thomas William Hammond 1854-1935. Born in Philadelphia of Nottingham emigres, and orphaned at the age of four, he came to England with his younger sister Maria and lived for a short while with his grandparents in Mount Street. In 1868 age 14 he enrolled in the Government School of Art. On the 1871 census he is described as a lace curtain designer, and in 1872 he was awarded the 'Queen's Prize for a Design of a Lace Curtain'. Other prizes followed and in 1877 he was again awarded the Queen's Prize, this time for the design for a damask table Cloth. Hammond was an indefatigable worker, and soon began to use his skills as a draftsman to record aspects of the changing town. He began showing his work at local venues in 1882 and in 1890 exhibited for the first time at the Royal academy. His real hobby was black and white sketching in charcoal. He drew about 350 pictures all together mainly scenes of a Nottingham he knew but which has largely passed away today. Extracted from 'The Changing Face of Tom Hammond's Nottingham' by John Beckett which is the introductory essay in 'A City in the Making Drawings of Tom Hammond'.