EPW057129 ENGLAND (1938). Mapperley Brick Works, Nottingham, 1938

Maurice Drive. The road and further housebuilding envisaged beyond here, was never taken forward.

Houses under construction by R W Hustwayte & Sons.

Station master's house.

The end of the railway spur, runround loop and sidings for the brick works at Mapperley Rise.

Standards of timber delivered by rail for Simms Sons and Cook's factory on Haydn Road, Sherwood.

Signal Box.

Weighbridge office.

Exchange sidings. The point where the brick company's rail line met 'end-on' with the reception and despatch sidings of the ex Nottingham Suburban Railway (by this date the L.N.E.R.)

Brick Works Wagon-man's hut. This had a wooden bench and stool and an electric bell and 'key' used to send and receive signals for hauling a train of empty trucks 'up' or, lowering four or five trucks 'down' loaded with finished bricks. The bell code would be the only means of communication between 'the winch man' controlling the winding drum at the top of the incline at Mapperley and 'wagon man' at the exchange sidings at Sherwood station. When all the shunting of trucks had finished and the crew of the daily goods train ready to depart for St Ann's or Daybrook, the wagon man would send his bell code 'up top'. Placing a plank across the buffers of the last truck, he would hoist himself up and ride up to Mapperley in style.

Sherwood Station