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19-519: John Boot (1815–1860) opened a shop selling herbal remedies in Goosegate in the City of Nottingham in 1849. Over the next 70 years his son, Jesse Boot , through a series of innovations; trading only in cash , the use of large-scale industrial production methodologies , the establishment of a major distribution and retailing network including the opening of over a thousand stores allowing direct selling, and

38-792: A medium-sized secondary, South Nottinghamshire Academy , formerly known as Dayncourt School. John Boot , the founder of the pharmacy chain Boots , was born in Radcliffe in 1815. The 19th-century Nottinghamshire and England cricket captain George Parr was born and died in the village. He also played for the Radcliffe on Trent Cricket Club. Evidence of the Parr family's long association with Radcliffe appears in several street and building names. Professional footballer Ian Woan (born 1967) lived near Radcliffe while playing for Nottingham Forest F.C. As of 2024, Woan

57-454: A number of community spaces, such as Cliff Walk (which runs beside the river to nearby Shelford village), Rockley Memorial Park, a recreation ground and skate park, and a complex of sports fields at the eastern end of the village. There is an amateur dramatics group which stages regular productions at the Grange Hall, as well as numerous other clubs and associations. There are local branches of

76-501: Is Grade II*. Williams' fire station is listed at Grade II. Jesse Boot is commemorated with a life-size bronze bust at the entrance to the boating lake in the park he donated as a civic amenity to his workers and to the people of Nottingham. John Boot John Boot (October 1815 – 30 May 1860) was an English chemist and retail businessperson who was the sole founder of Boots the Chemists . Originally working in agriculture, he

95-637: Is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire , England. The population of the civil parish at the Census 2011 was 8,205, falling slightly at the Census 2021 to 8,144 Radcliffe has a population of about 8,000. It is to the east of Nottingham , close to but not part of the Greater Nottingham built-up area. However, the Greater Nottingham Partnership sees

114-474: Is assistant manager of Everton F.C. Gary Mills , who played in the victorious 1980 European Cup Final , making him the youngest finalist in European Cup history, still lives in Radcliffe. Billy Walker (1897-1964), former Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest player and manager, died at Saxondale Hospital after a long illness. The actor Tom Graham who played Tom Archer for 17 years (1997–2014) in

133-446: The Boys' Brigade and Scouts . The village has four public houses , its own football , golf and cricket clubs. There is also a Kickboxing club through KickboxUK ( Professional Kickboxing Association – Radcliffe-on-Trent). In 1999 the village was twinned with Bussy-St-Georges, a French town which lies east of Paris. Radcliffe has an infant and nursery school, a junior school and

152-585: The Pevsner Buildings of England series, Clare Hartwell describes the collection of buildings at the Boots Factory Site as "some of the most important 20th-century work in Britain". Building D10 is the largest Grade I listed structure in Britain. Its Historic England listing record describes it as "the most significant icon of British Modernism ". Building D6 is also a Grade I listed building. D90

171-497: The Boots Pure Drug Company, it purchased a new 200-acre (81 ha) site at Beeston , outside of Nottingham, which became the Boots Factory Site. Work began immediately and Owen Williams , an architect and engineer, was engaged to design a range of buildings on the site. The first was D10, the 'Wets' building, so-called because it was used for the manufacture and packaging of lotions and medicines in liquid form. This

190-581: The Radcliffe Road runs along the north-eastern edge of Trent Bridge cricket ground. Radcliffe has a railway station connecting it to Nottingham and beyond in the west and Grantham and beyond to the east. The village is served by the Trentbarton bus company, which runs daily services to Nottingham – once every 10 minutes on weekdays. The village has an Anglican parish church, St. Mary's , and Roman Catholic and Methodist churches. The village has

209-751: The United States. The Beeston site remains the headquarters of Boots UK Limited in the 21st century, although the company is now owned by the American pharmacy chain Walgreens , through the Walgreens Boots Alliance . In April 2022, Walgreens put the UK business up for sale, before withdrawing it in June 2022. Parts of the site have been zoned for residential development. In her 2020 revised edition of Nottinghamshire , in

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228-561: The company Boots UK . Boot was born in Radcliffe-on-Trent , England, in October 1815. He was the son of William Boot; his mother Sarah ( née Fox) had practised the duty of herbal management; John was inspired by this. Originally a farm worker, he was forced to change career due to poor health. He set up a shop at Goose Gate, Nottingham , to sell medicinal herbal remedies, and called it "British and American Botanic Establishment". In

247-452: The couple had one child, Jesse , on 2 June 1850. Boot died on 30 May 1860, leaving his wife and business behind. Mary Boot carried on with the business, renaming it as M & J Boot, Herbalists. Boot's son, Jesse, would help bring the business to a much larger custom base, by opening further shops in other poor areas of the city, and eventually evolving into the national Boots UK empire. Radcliffe-on-Trent Radcliffe-on-Trent

266-487: The development of pharmacies which enabled him to undercut the prescription prices previously charged by doctors; expanded the business to become one of the world's biggest drug companies. In 1920, concerned as to whether his son, John had the commercial acumen necessary to run the company, Jesse Boot sold it to the United Drug Company of America. By 1926, John Boot had bought back the company and in 1927, renamed

285-403: The south-east of the parish lies the former Saxondale Hospital, which has been redeveloped into some 350 dwellings and renamed Upper Saxondale , which was formerly within Radcliffe, but has now become its own civil parish. Harlequin , a small mainly residential area, lies between it and Radcliffe, which is mainly on the northern side of the major, east-west, A52 trunk road . At its western end it

304-442: The store, he offered remedies and consultations to members of the public three days a week, in a poor area of Nottingham. The career had also appealed to Boot due to his Methodist roots, where he had studied the books of John Wesley , including Primitive Physic , a book about the fundamentals of herbal biology and remedies. Boot married Elizabeth Mills in 1838; she died in 1848. He married his second wife Mary Wills, in 1849, and

323-515: The whole of Rushcliffe as part of the conurbation. The village lies on the south bank and cliff overlooking the River Trent . The "Rad" part of its name is a corruption of the Old English for red, in reference to the dark red colour of the cliffs, which are formed of Triassic red shale with gypsum banding. Nearby places are Shelford , East Bridgford , Holme Pierrepont and Stoke Bardolph . To

342-400: Was constructed between 1930 and 1932 and was followed between 1935 and 1938 by D6, the 'Drys' building, used for production of tablets and lozenges . Williams went on to design a fire station , D34, for the plant. In the 1960s, the American firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill was commissioned to design D90, the company headquarters, after Boots' executives had seen examples of their work in

361-512: Was forced by ill health to change careers and set up a shop to sell medicinal herbal remedies at Goose Gate, Nottingham . Although he had no formal qualification, he had learned the skills from his mother and from the Methodist book, Primitive Physic by John Wesley . When Boot died in 1860, his wife Mary took over the business, and his son, Jesse , went on to expand the business by opening more stores in poor areas, eventually expanding it into

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