title: Arthur Brown (engineer)
text: # Arthur Brown (engineer)
  
  Arthur Brown M.Inst. C.E. (21 November 1851 - 13 April 1935) was City Engineer for Nottingham, England from 1880 to 1919.
  
  ## Life
  
  He was born on 21 November 1851 in Nottingham, the son of George Hutchinson Brown a Nottingham merchant. He was educated at Nottingham Grammar School.
  
  On 13 March 1877 at All Saints' Church, Nottingham he married Caroline Goodwin (1854-1919), only daughter of T.A. Goodwin of Nottingham, and they had the following children:
  
  * Lieutenant Arthur Goodwin Brown M.T., A.S.C. (1878-1947)
  * Lieutenant Ernest Victor Brown R.G.A. (b.1880)
  * Ethel Carrie Brown (b. 1883)
  * Winifred M. Brown (1888-1918) (drowned in the sinking of a ship)
  
  For many years he lived in Glenthorne, Lucknow Avenue, Nottingham. He died on 13 April 1935 and left an estate valued at £43,626 (equivalent to £3,221,900 in 2021).
  
  ## Career
  
  He was articled to the Borough Engineer Marriott Ogle Tarbotton becoming Assistant Borough Engineer in 1874, and succeeded to the role himself in 1880. He retired in 1919.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham 1882-83
  * Lenton Boulevard, Nottingham 1882-83
  * Radford Boulevard, Nottingham 1882-83
  * Beck Valley storm water culvert, St Ann's Well Road, Nottingham 1882-83
  * St Peter's Gate churchyard disinterments and improvements 1884
  * Cattle Market, London Road, Nottingham 1885
  * King Street and Queen Street, Nottingham 1890
  * Victoria Park, Nottingham 1894
  * Sneinton Baths, Nottingham 1895
  * Victoria Embankment, Nottingham 1898
  * Construction works for Nottingham Corporation Tramways 1900 onwards
  * Talbot Street power station extension 1900
  * St Ann's Well Road power station 1901-02 and extension 1919
  * Carrington Street bridge, 1904
  * Stoke and Bulcote Sewage Farm extension
  * Bridge over the Nottingham Canal, Trent Street
  * Bridge over the Nottingham Canal, Wilford Street
  * Milton Street, Nottingham (widening)
  * Bath Street, Nottingham (widening)
  * Manvers Street, Nottingham (widening)
  * Bulwell Forest Cricket Ground
  * Lenton recreation ground
  * Wilford Suspension Bridge Nottingham 1906
  * Street works depot, Church Street, Basford 1907-08
  * Goose Gate, Nottingham, (widening) 1911
  * Carlton Road, Nottingham (widening between Thorneywood Lane and the city boundary) 1913
  