In 1908, Ernest Anthony Bush, the surveyor to Beeston Urban District Council renumbered the properties on the High Road.

[1] Starting in 1965, the western end of the street in Post Office Square was redeveloped.

All of the buildings on the south side of the street 2-10, including the National Provincial Bank which was only 30 years old, were demolished .

In 1987 a sculpture of a beekeeper commissioned by Broxtowe Borough Council and designed by Sioban Coppinger was installed in the street.

[2] In 1989 the council installed a second piece of sculpture at the western end of the High Road in Beeston Square.