Cliff Ton 10,467 Posted September 27, 2021 Report Share Posted September 27, 2021 However many of them there may be, keeping students all in one place has a number of benefits. When they live in normal houses amongst normal people, there are always complaints about noise, litter, car parking, anti-social behaviour, etc etc, caused by the students. Their increasing presence has ruined many previously-decent areas. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paradiddle 146 Posted September 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2021 Here's a pic of the new building going up at the Wells Road/Woodborough junction. What used to be there? The views from the penthouse might be ok but wouldn't fancy living on the ground floor! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart.C 491 Posted September 29, 2021 Report Share Posted September 29, 2021 I only ever remember it as a sunken car park with a modernish building on it in the 70's/ 80's. May have been Don Greenwood Cardboard boxes, (same D.G as the founder of the Private Hire car company.) Looks like Google managed to go in there by mistake; https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.9802474,-1.1306051,3a,75y,332.21h,79.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4UEmDltktDH5A2CXcBkPqQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart.C 491 Posted September 29, 2021 Report Share Posted September 29, 2021 Looks like it was the garden for the house / shop on Woodborough Rd in 1938. https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW057127 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paradiddle 146 Posted September 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2021 Thanks for the picture Stuart, as youngsters we only ventured as far as The Majestic. I notice there are houses on the other side of Woodborough Road as well, don't remember those either! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,467 Posted September 29, 2021 Report Share Posted September 29, 2021 Looking on various old maps, there never appears to have been any building on that corner plot, going back to the late 1800s. Amazing how it's been ignored for so long. It has only ever been a garden/yard/waste ground/etc etc for other properties. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart.C 491 Posted September 29, 2021 Report Share Posted September 29, 2021 On the left looking down, from here; https://stannswellroad.weebly.com/the-wells-road.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted September 29, 2021 Report Share Posted September 29, 2021 It may be prone to intermittent flooding. There is usually a reason why land isn't built upon and in recent years many properties have been constructed on land which floods intermittently. The locals know these things. The new owners don't....until they get flooded out! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart.C 491 Posted September 29, 2021 Report Share Posted September 29, 2021 On a plan attached to the planning application for the flats, the land shows as a Crane Depot from 1968. On a 1978 plan it's just a Depot. On a plan dated 1966 it appears to be the original garden? layout with no buildings shown. Planning for the flats lapsed in 2020, unless someone has done some work to consider the development started. The planned flats sit above a parking area. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Engineer 614 Posted September 29, 2021 Report Share Posted September 29, 2021 I think something has been started - I saw some concrete wall formwork there a couple of weeks ago. While we are on Mapperley Top, there is another plot that stands empty - corner of Plains Road and Central Avenue. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart.C 491 Posted September 30, 2021 Report Share Posted September 30, 2021 Here's an advert relating to Wells Rd but I can't see any date on it or the PDF linked on the advert. https://www.marriotts.net/property/details/the-wells-road A bit of concrete should been enough to preserve the planning. My Son owns a farm with planning for development of the outbuildings, all we had to do there, with agreement from the Planning Officer was to lift up the stone floor in one and remove the timber upper floor in another. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Socram 130 Posted October 19, 2021 Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 On 9/30/2021 at 11:01 AM, The Engineer said: While we are on Mapperley Top, there is another plot that stands empty - corner of Plains Road and Central Avenue. For many years, that was the turnaround/terminus for the 31 bus. Prior to that, the buses left from alongside Plains School playground and prior to that, a bit further along, just before Westdale Lane - alongside some rather grubby public toilets. I can only presume that before the turnaround, buses must have reversed into Plains Grove, or even Hazel Grove or Steedman Avenue, probably with the assistance of the conductor. Not a manoeuvre you'd want to try today. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ube 38 Posted October 19, 2021 Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 On 9/29/2021 at 6:48 PM, Stuart.C said: On a plan dated 1966 it appears to be the original garden? Yep it used to be an allotment there before Speed Electric crane/folk lift.... Me mates Dad(George Butterworth of Eaton Street) used have the allotment..... Talking of Eaton Street.... Took a quick look down there and mine and me mates initals are still there carved in brickwork from the 60's Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,467 Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 Which side of Eaton Street ? I can see three or four possible walls https://goo.gl/maps/tLx3RWNo5YBXSYnMA Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart.C 491 Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 RH and MARK are on this one https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.9810157,-1.1273292,3a,15y,280.58h,80.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP8Enbv-fvh7z3WZAAQWTyw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 CT I clicked the link you posted and was very happy to see the church where Paul and I married back in 1966. I believe it’s still being used as a church - that’s good. We must visit it when we are next in Nottingham Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,467 Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 I'm not sure if it is still a church Margie. On Streetview there's a For Sale/Under Offer sign on it - https://goo.gl/maps/VxJteYvaeVo87kjr9 and most searches don't bring up any reference to it still operating as a church. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 I think I heard it was operating as a different church - Mustard Seed Chapel International - not one of the main denominations? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,467 Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 Maybe they are the new owners and nothing on the internet has been updated yet ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ube 38 Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 9 hours ago, Cliff Ton said: Which side of Eaton Street As you go down on your right there is a barn just before the entry..... All on there Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ube 38 Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 9 hours ago, Stuart.C said: RH and MARK are on this one To the left of mark IC that's me .... RH=Richard Henson.... Mark=Mark Fawsit 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paradiddle 146 Posted December 14, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2021 Watch this space - disappearing soon!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,467 Posted December 14, 2021 Report Share Posted December 14, 2021 I can't work out where that is. Looks like the rear of an old cinema. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DavidA 153 Posted December 14, 2021 Report Share Posted December 14, 2021 Or the top entrance to Mapperley Hospital from the Wells Road? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,090 Posted December 14, 2021 Report Share Posted December 14, 2021 Back of the old Majestic Cinema and, next door, Mumbai Spice Indian takeaway. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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