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No problems with photo copies as most maps are out of copyrite.

By scanning or photographing & putting on a small screen a lot of detail would be lost. Reducing from two & a half feet square( the 1880s maps are larger) to a small screen would not do the maps justice. I am on pension credits & can't afford a large format scanner or the lens for my camera to do a worth while job. But I can get photo copies and bring them to Nottingham if people know exactly what they want. Price 1950s maps £2.50 each 1880s maps £3 50 each

The Gedling & Carlton maps add up to some 20-25 maps. If you look at the squares on an OS 1" map, there are 4 maps per square. Westdale lane is on 4 maps. I also don't have a large format scanner.

Don't go that far out I can manage as far as Lenton,Basford,Bulwell,Arnold<Carlton & Gedling. Got all of City centre (early 50s) 50" to the mile( I have over 200 maps of this scale.)

Potatoes just poking through on the allotment I hope there is not a frost in the next week or so.

I have a large number(about 150) of 1/500 scale(1" = 41') maps are parts of Nottingham I don,t have entire town dated 1880/1/2 I also have a number of 50" to the mile maps mostly of the early 1950s. Plus I have a few maps of odds & sods of various dates.

Down the the allotment yesterday & will be down there again in about an hours time.

The map I am referring to is 25 inches to the mile. I also have some of Nottingham Ten & a half FEET to the mile these maps were surveyed 1880/1/2

Glad I got the "fence" up this morning it's back to the rain this afto.

Plumptre colliery is mentioned many times in "The history of the Nottingham Miners" volume 1 by A.R. Griffin published in 1955. Plumtre colliery closed in 1912 during the 1912 Strike/lockout

Plumptre colliery was about half a mile south of Brinsley just north west of Eastwood hall Clinton colliery was just east of the Cromford Canal & had a tramway to the canal at Limekiln lock there was a warf there called Clinton warf. My map is dated 1881 scale 25.344 inches to the mile.

Thank you for that As you my know I have quite a large collection of maps of the Nottingham area. One map has 3 colliierys on it Brindsley, Plumptre (Closed 1912) & a small pit called Clinton which I believe only employed about a dozen men.

The other "pit" in that are was Newcastle & I know it was shut by the early 50s but I don't know exactly when.

Only the fence the beans are still in the greenhouse & will not be planted out till the beginning of June. Also have about 200 leeks 100 parsnips 100 French beans + 5 each squash,courgettes & punpkins.

My Grandfather(mothers dad) worked down Radford pit for most of it's working life. Grandfather was born in 1887 & started work at the age of 12 and worked long after the age of 65.

Job done' bean fence up:)

Heading for Beastmarket Hill?

A total of six hours down the allotment yesterday & to-day. I hope to put the bean fence up tomorrow(weather permitting)

There was an Anderson shelter in my Grandparents(mother's side)garden in Middleton Street Radford it was "filled in" some time in the mid 1950s My Grandparent's house was right next to Raleigh.

Window cleaner? I think it's the "local burglar"

I think it is the same photo

I have photos of people ice skating on the Trent at Trent Bridge in 1896. The book "Memories of Nottingham" (Nottingham Evening Post)ISBN 0 948946 15 6 published 1987

Eric Pickles & George Osborne Fatman & The boy Blunder

Use it to stiffen your shirt collar then