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Due to roadworks on Woodborough Road, the 60 and 61 towards Nottingham were diverting via Woodthrope Drive, Mansfield Road, Winchester Street and Mapperley Rise.
Mapperley Tunnel was a 1,132-yard-long tunnel built by the Great Northern Railway. Closed since the early 1960's, mining subsidence has always been an issue with the tunnel. Part of it (approximately 500 yards) is navigable.
This is the remaining tunnel portal. The other end is buried
The 46 is finding itself getting more and more popular as the days go by, with passengers along Ravenswood Road and Coppice Road benefiting from a ten minute saving on a trip Nottingham over the 56. It's not uncommon to have a full bus by Mapperley now!!
145 illustrates the short-cut over the 56, seen zipping down Mapperley Plains to Nottingham on a 46 via Mapperley.
OOC 43612 Nottingham City Transport Dennis Arrow NC Palatine II
Advertising: Robin Hood Entertainment Centre
Fleet No: 401 - Registration No: N401 ARA
Route: 51 - Destination: City via Arnold Mapperley
Every weekday, the 15:15 47 & 16:45 46 from Nottingham use an extra bus, any vehicle from Trent Bridge, with todays being 303.
303 is seen on Woodborough Road on the 16:45 46 to Woodborough via Mapperley.
Aylesham Avenue exit as it now looks - just a residential area where the footpath traces the line of the track through to Daybrook
I would like to thank Brian Cuff of the Notts Footpaths Preservation Society for taking this photograph for me.
For a complete and accurate map of the entire former route please see my map :
www.derbyphotos.co.uk/features/friargatebridge/maps/
Thanks
Andy
Slowly being covered in ivy, the latest in my series of images of the derelict chapel that was once part of Mapperley Hospital.
Nuthatch / sitta europaea. Mapperley, Derbyshire. 02/04/15. Noticeably less activity around the feeders now that Spring has arrived. This Nuthatch however made frequent visits, lingering on perches longer than normal, which of course was fine by me.
Registration E27YCH
Make LANCIA
Model THEMA
Description IE TURBO
Date of Liability 01 11 1994
Date of First Registration 18 02 1988
Year of Manufacture 1988
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1995cc
CO2 Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type PETROL
Export Marker NO
Vehicle Status Unlicensed
Vehicle Colour GREY
Reg. District Office DVLA Nottingham
Due to roadworks on Ramsey Drive, NCT are diverting their 56/7/X via Gedling Road, Mapperley Plains & Coppice Road.
Had a jolly nice morning at Mapperley Wood Nature Reserve with Jo, Alison and Paul (natural diversity). I did have a go with Paul's uber-lens, those pics to follow...
Mapperley Tunnel was a 1,132-yard-long tunnel built by the Great Northern Railway. Closed since the early 1960's, mining subsidence has always been an issue with the tunnel. Part of it (approximately 500 yards) is navigable.
An abandoned buffer in the mud
I would like to thank Brian Cuff of the Notts Footpaths Preservation Society for taking this photograph for me.
For a complete and accurate map of the entire former route please see my map :
www.derbyphotos.co.uk/features/friargatebridge/maps/
Thanks
Andy
A fixed solar shading system was installed at Mapperley Plains Primary School to create a better learning environment.
Nottingham City Transport Network Lilac Line Scania Omnidekka 738 (YN04 UJT) travels along Westdale Lane towards Mapperley Shops before continuing onto Arnold, Front Stret.
Mapperley Tunnel was a 1,132-yard-long tunnel built by the Great Northern Railway. Closed since the early 1960's, mining subsidence has always been an issue with the tunnel. Part of it (approximately 500 yards) is navigable.
This is the remaining tunnel portal. The other end is buried
The first time I've been able to catch up with this one in traffic, it seems to spend a lot of time on the 48, I assume to promote the Easyrider card over the tram, just like 970/1 did before it....
631 is seen on Westdale Lane at the Mapperley end with a 25 to Arnold via Woodthorpe and Daybrook.
Ex Nottingham city transport optare Metrorider in service with Littles travel on schools ironically later seeing service with Gills Travel on there route 9 occasionally also . The bus is seen at Mapperley Top shops which is unusual for Littles travel to operate in
Mapperley Tunnel is 1132 yards long and the track bed is 210 feet below ground at its lowest point. It was built by digging six shafts downwards and then digging outwards. The approach cutting is over 70 feet deep. Over 5 million bricks were needed for completion of the tunnel, mostly for the lining.
A fixed solar shading system was installed at Mapperley Plains Primary School to create a better learning environment.
This picture is but a snap shot (pardon the pun) into the history of the adjoining Alexandra Park. The land on which the park was built was plot 163 on the 1845 Enclosure Award, a 27 acre site on the east side of Woodborough Road, then called Mapperley Halls Road. In 1854, the plot was bought by Thomas Chambers Hine (architect) and his brother, John, for £5,946 (£477K today). They planned to build four substantial houses on the land, known as Enderleigh, Fernleigh, Springfield and Sunnyholm. These houses still stand in the park today and are seriously luxurious mid-Victorian properties but no longer single dwellings. Fernleigh, on the west side of the park, was owned by John Dane Player, the son of John Player the tobacco magnate from Nottingham, and in 1899 John Dane Player acquired land on the south side of the park road, The Crescent, to build this carriage house, designed by Arthur Marshall. When John died in 1949 he left a fortune of £2.5 million (then) and the house and adjoining land was acquired by Nottingham Corporation in 1950; they built the adjoining tall block behind the coach house, known as Alexandra Court. Fernleigh is now Nottingham Hospice.
Designed by Watson Fothergill and built in 1904. It stands on the corner of Mapperley Road and Park Avenue, Mapperley. The building was a joint design project with his 'right-hand man', Lawrence George Summers.
Mapperley Tunnel was a 1,132-yard-long tunnel built by the Great Northern Railway. Closed since the early 1960's, mining subsidence has always been an issue with the tunnel. Part of it (approximately 500 yards) is navigable.
Additional supports were required to keep the tunnel open
A bit of fun from today's shoot at Mapperley Woods.
Warning. Although the image doesn't contain nuts the hide it was taken from does!!
Seen on Woodbrough Road, Mapperley an East Lancs bodied Scania with a hideous overall advertising livery for a car dealer. Note also the various alterations to the three storey terrace behind, none of which preserve its architectural integrity.
Bus Lists on the Web yields the following data
NRR400W Sca BR112DH 1801284 EL 30 H46/32F 7/1981 Nottingham 400
Mapperley Tunnel was a 1,132-yard-long tunnel built by the Great Northern Railway. Closed since the early 1960's, mining subsidence has always been an issue with the tunnel. Part of it (approximately 500 yards) is navigable.
The remains of the track bed leading to the tunnel, as seen from the top of the portal
Mapperley Hospital opened in 1880 as the second main city facility for mentally ill patients. It was originally called the Lunatic Asylum and cost £30,000 to build. It was designed by the architect George Thomas Hine, the son of TC Hine. George Hine went on to design several similar sites in Essex, Dorset, Sunderland and Somerset to name a few, all based on a linear corridor layout established by his father when he built the Coppice Hospital in 1857-59. Mapperley was designed to house 280 patients but a sudden increase in the town's population meant that when it opened, 246 patients were transferred there within a few days and in no time it was full. An extension (the south wing) was added in 1889, but within 12 months of it opening the hospital was again overcrowded. This part of the hospital is named after the much respected third and last superintendent, Dr Duncan MacMillan, who retired in 1966 and died three years later. The hospital closed in 1994, with the service replaced by 'Care in the Community'.
Nottingham Patent Brick Company Limited, Mapperley Hills, Thorneywood Lane & Arnold, Nottingham.
Wright's Nottingham Directory 1910
The Nottingham Patent Brick Co. was formed by two Nottingham brickmakers Edward Gripper & William Burgass in 1867, they were later joined in 1881 by Robert Mellors. This company is recorded in Kelly's from 1876 with works at Carlton & Mapperley and with entries for Thorneywood Lane, Woodborough Road, Mapperley Hill, Burgass Road & Arnold all being listed in later editions. In 1969 production at Mapperley & Carlton Hill ceased only leaving Dorket Head at Arnold. In 1976 the company dropped Patent from its name & then in 1987 the Dorket Head Works was acquired by the Marley Brick Co. The works changed hands again in 1993 becoming part of the Tarmac Group. In 1996 it was acquired by the present owners of the works, Ibstock. The Company is most famously known for producing the millions of bricks required in the building of St. Pancras Railway Station & Hotel in the 1860's. Info. courtesy of Martyn Fretwell.