EPW057132 ENGLAND (1938). Mapperley Brick Works, Nottingham, 1938

St James Church, Marshall Hill Drive

Mapperley Methodist Church [ Closed 2020]

The Wells Road

Covered reservoir

Porchester Road

Westdale Lane

This will become Penarth Rise, Penarth Gardens & Manthorpe Crescent.

Woodborough Road

Mapperley Hospital, the Victorian asylum.

This will become Springwood Gardens, accessed off Woodthorpe Drive.

Site of the Mapperley war memorial

By 1938 the station buildings - ticket office and waiting rooms on both platforms show recent signs of demolition following the singling of the whole route between Trent Lane, Nottingham and Daybrook on the 9th February 1930. The signal box and weighbridge office in the station yard and the Lamp Room on the down platform remained until the early 1950s.

Woodthorpe Grange fish pond fed by a stream from Mapperley. By the 1920's and after, it had become a paddling pool until by the 1940's it leaked and would no longer hold water. From 1940 until 1947 the land on this side of Woodthorpe Park was ploughed and worked by The Land Army for growing potatoes and carrots.

Winchester Street, Sherwood

Mapperley Rise

Exchange sidings. LNER rails met 'end-on' here with those of the Nottingham Patent Brick Company. Ascending and descending trucks were controlled from a small brick built hut close to the Sherwood Vale overbridge by means of a bell code.

Allotments.

Allotments

By 1938 this and other land adjacent to the railway line was rented by allotment holders: the rents paid annually to the London & North Eastern Railway Company at Nottingham Victoria Station. After the 1948 Nationalisation of railways the allotment lands became the property of Nottingham Corporation and to which body allotment rents were paid.