Street built by female developer Emily Blagg (1863-1935).
...in the early 1900s, she... made an unexpected move into housing development. She secured land to build The Park, a street of semi-detached houses set along a tree-lined avenue off London Road, one of Newark’s principal streets. Emily lived at No. 2 The Park. She became a major shareholder in a brick works in Dinnington near Sheffield where she built houses for workers in the local coal mines. (1)

Emily Blagg (nee Stevens) was born in Stoke in 1863. She trained as a dressmaker and in 1883 moved from Altrincham to Newark where she joined Cooper and Co. In 1876 this local clothing firm had started to pivot away from retail clothes sales to wholesale clothing manufacturing. It was a transformational move. Emily joined a fast-growing company and became an important part of the management team. In 1895 she organised a ball at the Town Hall for the ‘flourishing firm’, and was ‘indefatigable in providing for all the guests’. It became an annual event, hosted by the management and heads of departments, of which Emily was one. In 1897, employees had dinner at midnight and danced waltzes, polkas, gavottes and barn dances until 4.30am.(1)

Blagg also built other properties in Newark: houses on 'Lime Grove', the Palace Threatre (as a cinema) and a cinema on the corner of Barnby Gate and Balderton Gate. (1)

Need for further reaserch on the buidings of Emily Blagg identified by HE (2)

OS map published in 1900 show the street still to be built. The 2.5 acre plot had two buildings at a right angle to each other and a small outbuidling and pump at the south end of the plot which apper to have been demolished to make way for the new housing. (3)

<1> womenwhomeantbusiness.com, 2025, Emily Blagg (1863-1935) (Website). SNT6032.

<2> Historic England, 2024, Newark on Trent, Historic Area Assessment by Historic England (Unpublished document). SNT6029.

<3> OS, 1900, 1:2500, County Series 1900 (Map). SNT1021.