Alan Sillitoe (1928 - 2010)

As a child the Nottingham author, Alan Sillito, lived just behind this building on Albion Street, in one of the many crumbling terraces his poverty-stricken family was forced to flit between in the 1930's

Alan Sillitoe, renowned Nottingham-born author of *Saturday Night and Sunday Morning*, lived in the area as a child during the 1930s, experiencing the poverty that later influenced his working-class literary voice. This building is important as a tangible link to his early life and the social conditions that shaped his writing.