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Long-tailed Tit / aegithalos caudatus. Mapperley Wood, Derbys. 18/01/15.
A flock of ten birds circulated the wood as a tight group with no extra species integrating as 'hangers-on'. Their tiny contact calls were audible and remained constant whenever they came near.
A vacant shop in Mapperley. On the plus side, there’s still good business to be had for glazing companies and OSB manufacturers.
7th May 2011 — GBR, Nottinghamshire
Canon PowerShot S5 IS
This bridge carried Sherwood Vale in Nottingham over the line from the Nottingham Suburban Line to Mapperley Brickworks, the site of which was at the top of Woodborough Road opposite the Wells Road.
The eastern end of Mapperley Plains Tunnel still welcomes visitors but the western end 1132 yards distant is long obliterated & was back-filled to the middle with colliery waste after the line shut in 1960. Near Mapperley Plains Crossroads is the middle shaft & this has been used by the locals as a dump for many years with the rubbish pile stretching to the roof of the tunnel & up into the shaft. The strata of this curiosity is a microcosm of the Earth's crust with fossils ageing as you go further down. Right at the base will be record players for 78s & valve radios, further up will be found twin-tub washing machines, 8 track players, cassette decks, walkmans, microwave ovens, cathode ray tvs & CD players with plasma screens & last year's i-phone nearer the top.
This magnificent house was designed by the Nottingham architect, Watson Fothergill aided by his assistant Lawrence G Summers. It has all the hallmarks of Fothergill's Tudoresque Gothic style such as a turret, timber inserts in the red brick and decorative finials etc.
This picture, looking back towards Blue Bell Hill tunnel from Carlton Road, shows the northern portal of this short tunnel in about 1950. After 1931 trains no longer came north from Trent Lane - they all came south from Daybrook and were freight trains only, picking up bricks from the two brickworks next to the line at Mapperley and Thorneywood. (Copyright - Nottm Libraries).
Grave of Harold Horsley, Horsley (St. Clement) Churchyard, Derbyshire
Horsley, Harold, Private, 7982, Royal Army Medical Corps
Born Horsley Woodhouse, Derbyshire
Enlisted Derby
Disembarked for service 28th August 1914
Drowned whilst aboard the Hospital Ship Asturias 21st March 1917 aged 36
Husband of Alice Horsley, of Pit Lane, Smalley, Derbyshire.
Buried in Horsley (St. Clement) Churchyard, Derbyshire
1911 Census
A colliery joiner and shaftman
Husband of Alice Harrison Horsley, and father of George Frederick, Amy, Eliza, Jessie Harrison and Harold Horsley, of Pit Lane, Smalley, Derbyshire
Pension Records
Husband of Alice (born 2nd May 1882); father of George Frederick (born 10th July 1902), Amy (born 27th August 1903), Eliza (born 31st December 1904), Jessie Harrison (born 16th September 1907) and Harold Horsley (born 13th March 1909), of Pit Lane, Smalley, Derbyshire
Gedling Station was the first station on the newly built GNR Back Line (or Derbyshire extension) from Colwick to Basford North via Daybrook.
The 'Back Line' opened in 1875 to allow the GNR access to the lucrative Derbyshire and Staffordshire coal fields and a route from Derby to the east coast holiday resorts. Passenger services commenced in 1876. Because the Midland Railway (MR) had already used up the best routes to Derbyshire and beyond, the GNR had to build a long loop line around the north or back part of Nottingham - hence the line's name.The line linked up with the GNR's line from Grantham, with Gedling being the first station, followed by Daybrook and Basford North. After Basford the line went on towards Kimberley, Awsworth, Ilkeston, West hallam and on to Derby Friargate. It finally led to Egginton Junction in Staffordshire where it linked up with the North Staffordshire Railway.
In 1899, when the Great Central Railway opened in Nottingham, connecting links from the GCR's mainline to the Back Line at Basford were built, cutting out Colwick, Gedling and Daybrook for Derby bound passenger trains, but the Back Line was still used heavily, especially for coal but also for holiday trains from Derby to the east coast resorts. The east end of the line closed in 1960 after major structural problems with Mapperley Tunnel north of Gedling, and the whole line closed in 1966.
Another from the Nottingham set ... rainy miserable day, just the kind of shooting conditions I love.
Pentacon Six TL | 60/2.8 Biometar |Kodak Portra 160NC
premiere Travel ran red group of services
red 1 Bingham
red2 cotgrave
red3 Keyworth
red4 sandiacre and long Eaton short lived
red5 Long Eaton
red 5X non stop long Eaton express
red 7 (7.1 7.2 7.3) Mapperley and Arnold area including netherfield
red 8 Hucknall
red 9 Loughborough
red express airport link
plus a cavalcade of Notts bus routes when they acquired veolia Dunn line and all the Notts bus contacts like the shop link and eventlink services
The high bridge that carried the Suburban Line over Colwick Road can be seen in this 1905 postcard picture of an early electric tram. The line crossed Colwick Road on a high viaduct, but the track was badly damaged during World War 2 and never repaired. Afterwards only freight trains serving the two brickworks at Mapperley and Thorneywood used the line from the Daybrook end. The bridge was where the Ginger Tom pub was later built. The tram is on its way back to Nottingham from its terminus at Colwick Crossing. The steep embankment up to Sneinton Boulevard is on the right.
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.
Photo courtesy of Nottingham City Museums & Galleries.
Blue Line 40 at Winwood Heights, Woodthorpe Court for the City via Mapperley Rise, St Ann's & The Wells Road.
Since CT4N no longer run the L73/4/5 anymore, it's left their mini solo free to work other routes, today it was seen on the 19 which has also seen a reduced timetable, only running on Tuesday and Thursday, and the school journeys are withdrawn as well.
Definitely isn't what it used to be, hourly between Bulwell and Sherwood via Norwich Gardens, Bulwell Morrisons, Top Valley Tesco, Beckhampton Road, Mildenhall Crescent, Arnold Town Centre, Ramsey Drive, Mapperley Plains, Mapperley Shops and Sherwood, Winwood Heights.
Mapperley Hospital closed as a residential psychiatric hospital in 1994 and the site has been developed for housing with some of the 19th century buildings converted into apartments and new residential blocks built on to the grounds. One wing remains as part of Nottingham's Medical School and is known as Ducan Macmillan House. The hospital was designed by George Chambers Hine, son of Thbomas Chambers Hine, one of the architects who transformer the appearence of mid 19th century Nottingham with his devewlopment of the Park Estate and his construction of superbly designed factories for the lace industry. George's work is less well-known in Nottingham than that of his father, although during his lifetime his reputation exceeded Thomas's and he achieved national recognition designing local authority hospitals for the treatment of psychiatric cases. Mapperley was George's first hospital commission and already displays a number of distictive features in its plan and layout that he used for later buildings.
Due to roadworks on Ramsey Drive, NCT are diverting their 56/7/X via Gedling Road, Mapperley Plains & Coppice Road.
Mapperley Brick Works was on Woodborough Road, opposite The Wells Road, between Mapperley Rise and Sherwood Vale. It was owned by The Nottingham Patent Brick Company.
The park has earned the Green Flag Award for the quality of its green spaces every year since 2008. The Green Flag Award is the national standard for parks and green spaces in England and Wales.
In 2011 the park also achieved Country Park Accreditation from Natural England for its facilities and services.
Whatever the season, there's always lots to see and do in the park - walking, cycling, horse riding, bird watching, angling, picnicking, kite flying, jogging, wayfaring, photography, exploring the park and much more.
Entry is free but a pay-and-display parking charge applies in our main car parks at the visitor centre and next to Mapperley Reservoir.
Elm Bank Drive in Mapperley Park. A nice example of mapping by walking about (MBWA) is that it gives an opportunity to discuss some of the little niggles everyone encounters. Roads with a mix of surfaces are a good example.
In 1877 under the Borough Extension Act, Nottingham extended its town boundary to include Basford, Bulwell, Lenton, Radford (including Hyson Green), Carrington, Sherwood, Sneinton and part of Wilford. New boundary posts were erected to show the revised boundary. The town went overnight from an area of 1,996 acres to 10,935 acres with a population increase from 86,620 to 157,000. There then followed a massive programme of development in most of these parishes and it wasn't until the building of the massive council housing estates in the 1920's and 1930's before anything like it happened again. There are still a few of these old cast-iron boundary markers in situ, and they are all now Grade II listed.
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South facing, looking towards Nottingham and beyond, what were once wards at the former Mapperley Hospital have been converted into luxury apartments.
Having been a volutary worker at Mapperley Hospital, looking at the above illustration, the ward right at the top was Belvior Ward. On the right was the patients dormantory whilst in the cental area was the wards dayroom.
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