Paying to get into Netherfield

[Dark Angel 138]

@Beekay: to answer your query. After the 1792 enclosure act, land was divided up mainly between the Nobility and the Church.

 The two Lords of the Manor in this instance being the Earl of Chesterfield and Charles Pierrepont.

from North to South there was already in existence a carriage/bridle path leading to the river Trent. Heading West off this path was another public bridle road heading towards Nottingham via Colwick.

 The former became known as the Nether Field lane.

As the route through Colwick was less arduous than going over Carlton Hill, most travellers took the low road.

 Charles Pierrepont decided to charge a toll for crossing his land.

 Around 1800 a toll gate was erected at the junction of these bridle ways. Arguably, it should have been sited further along this bridle path, possibly around the site where Netherfield Coaches operated from at a later date.

 This land at this time was all meadow land and fields. No railways, no industry.

 Whilst contentious, it took until 1905 for disputes to be settled and compensation paid to the owners of Colwick Hall.

[Dark Angel 138]

@loppylugs:  just read your post about living on Willow Road, it’s likely our paths crossed at some point in the early sixties, as I lived in the middle of where you lived and worked.

[loppylugs 8,429]

We may have been to the same schools.  For me,  Ashwell street. 1950 to 1956.  Chandos sec school 1956 to 1959.  Otherwise known as the Chandos academy for young gentlemen and less flattering names like 'Stalagluft 12. 

[philmayfield 6,123]

An old friend of mine, Derek Brooks, co-owned Hambro Machinery on Chandos St. They manufactured tobacco machinery. He visited his customers in the company aircraft registered G-BRUX.

[Dark Angel 138]

@Messy Hessey: a quick reply. The row of houses where you lived were originally in Colwick. The old boundary being where Charworth Road was built to take road traffic over the railway. West of that was Colwick. The railway station was also built on Colwick land and the boundary was the northern edge of the cinderpath running alongside the railway until you reach Arthur Street where it merges with the tarmac. The bottom end of Netherfield was also Colwick. Even as late as the Great War, house address’ in that part gave Colwick as their address.

   A little side story: the western bank of Charworth Road was known as Petts Bank.

there was a building which he says she says was haunted by a man who committed suicide. I have know idea of the truth or not of that story.

 However, one day I was sat on the road fence on the eastern side looking at Petts building, when I realised there was a man walking from left to right inside the building. Having walked roughly three quarters of the floor space, he stopped to look up at a beam.

    I have know idea of what followed as I ran home like a scalded cat. Not wishing to see a re-enactment of what may or may not have occurred.

   He may have just been checking the building, but my imagination in full alarm mode suggested otherwise.

[loppylugs 8,429]

That brought back a memory. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if I remember correctly in my young days Petts building was occupied by a sporting goods co.  Footballs etc.

[Dark Angel 138]

Nothing wrong with your memory. Spot on with Petts.

and yes, I also went to Chandos although you had left before I arrived to serve my sentence.

[loppylugs 8,429]

Left as soon as I legally could age 15.  school days were not the happiest days of my life there.  Enough said I guess.

[Dark Angel 138]

Am in agreement with you.