Nelson Village

Charles Street Warwick

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Nelson Village is all but lost in the expanse of the Percy Estate these days but stands as a testament to the vision of the Victorian industrialist George Nelson.

"It may be out of place if we refer to the fact that this Company seem to have fully comprehended the proper relations that should exist between Capital and Labour. The firm pay good wages and provide a very large number of their employes with comfortable houses of their own construction, which are built on a large estate adjoining the works, with due regard to comfort and sanitary conditions, and are let to them at most reasonable rents. Indeed, Nelson Village is quite a model colony, containing as it does, twenty-three work-men's cottages and two pretty villas for the Works Managers."

Alfred Barnard 1899

Nelson Village (Charles Street) 1899

Residents of Charles Street and Wharf Street (Later to become part of Charles Street)1899 Spennell's Directory

William russell, George Haelwood, William Jarvis, W Woodfield, Thomas Wright, Thomas Jones, Joseph Boswell junior, F W Griffin, George woodfield, T Lovatt, Charles Taplin, John Edwards, Thomas Isaac ashmore, William Lovatt, William Hudson, John mottram, A Fox, Thomas Watson.

Wharf Street - James Mountford, William Lester, John Hazelwood, W Stock, charles Cox, George Jackson, Frederick Sawford, Mrs E Stroud, Arthur ford, John turner, G Sayce, Mrs Hanson, E Hyde, Henry trhearn, Thomas Henry Mander, John Wilkins, Thomas Jeffs, JW Ariss.

Some of the above employees are probably featured in this photograph of Gelatine Workers from 1899

Nelson Village (Charles Street) 1899 & 2009

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The Manager's Villas, Nelson Village ((Charles Street) All Saints Road) 2009

Nelson Village Cottages (Charles Street) 2009

Nelson Club (Charles Street) 1899 & 2009

4 Charles Street Warwick built by Sir E Montague Nelson for his Gardener at the beginning of the 20th century.

Aerial Nelson Village Charles Street

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