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  2. Cottage on Bramcote Lane Wollaton

    in Bramcote & Wollaton

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    My wife , as a kid, regularly came along the now Bramcote Lane , to the cemetery, and from there it was all open fields . She recalls that the Tottle Brook was quite steep sided in places and believes that there were other mini tributaries which flowed (in a trickle) into the Brook.

    There was no continuation of Bramcote Lane towards the now Thoresby Road. The only tract went across to Sandy Lane and from there to the Derby Road.

    Apparently there was a riding school somewhere nearby amongst the fields. Part of the land to the North, which was drained by the Tottle Brook was quite boggy and I have seen an area which was called "Misty Bottom" which I believe was near the canal.

    Wollaton Vale was a late addition.

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  3. Cottage on Bramcote Lane Wollaton

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    Yes that's it. Its been changed a lot in recent years and did at one time have a mock windmill in the garden.

     

    Sorry I had not read the above post referring to the windmill. I don't think that it was anything other than ornamental. The whole wall at the front was rebuilt in the past 20 years or so in the same brickwork.

    I don't think that being adjacent to the Tottle Brook had any connection to the mock windmill and I rather think no connection at all to Greens in Sneinton.

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  4. Wollaton Vale -old railway bridge

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    Thanks for the pictures of "Black Path Bridge". We had friends in the who moved into one of these houses just after they were built and we thought they looked rather strange at the time. Lego Land springs to mind as people have said.

    I wonder if this bridge could have been built using bricks from the Wollaton Brick Works?

  9. Wollaton Vale -old railway bridge

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    Also at the back of our council estate in Southampton, there was a disused quarry where we used to have our gang dens and have pitched battles with rivals (bricks, stones, bows and arrows etc).

    Often we fought but as mates we looked after each other. Guess it was no different here !

    We were all warned about strange men frequenting the overgrown quarry ( paedos were not a known word in the 50s ) but the lure of battle and collecting newts overcame that fear. In those days our parents encouraged us to get out all day and learn how to look after yourself. It certainly helped if anyone tried to bully you as you grew up! If you didn't come home not needing a bath they thought there was something wrong with you.

    We used to climb through all sorts of tunnels , sewers and streams. You never asked what floated in them!!

  10. Wollaton Vale -old railway bridge

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    Thanks to all, especially Pete .That map is VERY interesting and helps with a previous thread about the Tottle Brook and Moor Lane Cut through.

    The map alludes to a tramway at the Clay Pit which was adjacent to the brickworks. Could it have crossed the Moor Lane Bridge? A bridge must also have been used for coal transportation to the canal and before the canal to The Trent, continuation being down Moor Lane

    All this adds up to me thinking that the Moor Lane cutting was indeed originally made for horses and carts (with or without a tramway added) and a direct link to mills at Beeston and onwards to the Trent, providing a cutting through the Bramcote Hills sandstone. I cannot see any other logical explanation.

  13. Wollaton Vale -old railway bridge

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    I thought you guys might respond and give me some knowledgeable information. I cant believe it myself but I have lived in the area since 1971 and never come across this bridge before!! (observation powers nil! ).

    I assume that between this and the bridge on Moor Lane was the approx. site of the Wollaton Brickworks that once existed, which suggests that there were clay deposits close by.

    I have been fascinated by many of your previous posts showing just how industrialised the area was . Economic history has always been a favoured topic of mine and this area has it in bucket fulls.

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  16. Wollaton Vale -old railway bridge

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    I was walking along the site of the Old Nottingham Canal yesterday when I came to the underpass on Wollaton Vale. Rather than take the underpass I took a footpath towards Balloon Woods (on the south side of the road) and this passed over a brick rail bridge adjacent to the concrete Vale Bridge that was built about 30 odd years ago.

    Does anyone know when the original bridge was built and did it take anything other than footfall? Strange I had never come across this bridge before !!

  21. Bankfield Farm, Bramcote Hills, Moor Farm

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    "the state and the country houses in Nottinghamshire" is an e site which gives fantastic details of many of our old estates and houses.

    Later in the document it contains a photograph of Bankfield Farm, probably taken from Cow Lane looking NE in the early part of the 20th century.

    It also well documents the break up of the Bramcote Hills estate

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  23. Bankfield Farm, Bramcote Hills, Moor Farm

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    Old Maps show a Bankfield Farm on Bramcote Hills (now Bankfield Drive).

    Does anyone have a photo of this Farm?

    I also notice two footpaths from the site of the Bramcote Hills School one to Bankfield Farm and one to Deddington Plantation. I am trying to trace the exact line of these paths .

    also if you walk along Deddington now you come to a footpath to Moor Farm alongside the northern boundary of the disused Golf Course and the hedge there must be 300 years old.

    Does anyone have a photo of The Moor Farm??

    There a Planning Application lodged to build on the old Golf Course and alter the Green Belt which allow building on the school site and on Bramcote Moor.

    I would urge all local people to raise objections with Broxtowe Borough Council who have conveniently rescheduled the next Planning Meeting until after the election.

    I would urge all local residents to ask their prospective local candidates what their stance is on both the Planning Application and Green Belt alteration before they cast their votes on May 7