AfferGorritt 868 Posted October 3, 2018 Report Share Posted October 3, 2018 Always liked photos of old buildings and ruins of any description, and I think I've just become the oldest urban explorer in Notts! Thought I'd have a look round the old Chase Farm in Mapperley (what "No Entry" signs, Guv?!) before they put the new road through from the new Chase Farm housing development. This is one of the pics I took. 10 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted October 3, 2018 Report Share Posted October 3, 2018 Some scope for an entrepreneurial property developer there ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,090 Posted October 3, 2018 Report Share Posted October 3, 2018 Not with the Gedling bypass going through it, though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,138 Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 The farm used to be owned, pre war, by my uncle’s father, Elijah Burton. He built a lot of houses in Woodthorpe, Maitland Rd., Breckhill, Grafton Avenue etc. He was also a coal merchant with a yard between Station St. and Queen’s Rd and a large garage/workshop behind some houses at the top of Maitland Rd. I don’t know what he did with the farm and there’s nobody alive to ask now. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,895 Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 Afforgorrit, love the photo. Theres no end of derelict cascine around here. The old folk have gone and their descendants dont want to know. They all go to the bigger cities. We are a group of 6 cascine joined in an "L" shape , theres only 3 occupied. Theres a more modern house further down the road and next to that a bungalow. Opposite theres a very uptodate house that belongs to the son of our next door neighbours. A very old hamlet dating to about 1880. Our lounge has a date on the ceiling of 1886 but that part was added before that date. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 27 minutes ago, philmayfield said: The farm used to be owned, pre war, by my uncle’s father, Elijah Burton. He built a lot of houses in Woodthorpe, Maitland Rd., Breckhill, Grafton Avenue etc. He was also a coal merchant with a yard between Station St. and Queen’s Rd and a large garage/workshop behind some houses at the top of Maitland Rd. I don’t know what he did with the farm and there’s nobody alive to ask now. You mention houses at the top of Maitland Road - I presume the side that backed on to the brickyard? Those houses had quite long, narrow gardens - I had a friend who lived in one of them and we used to climb over her bottom garden fence to play in the brickyard Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,138 Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 Yes, Margie. There was quite a large garage building and it backed onto the brickyard. I remember climbing out of the window onto the field. It was behind the houses at the very top of Maitland Rd. which I believe he built and was approached down a narrow driveway. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,138 Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 Looking on Google Earth Margie the garage premises are still there as is the field behind. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 Phil, I've just checked on Street View and I seem to remember my friend's house was next door but one to the one with the drive next to it. My friend was called Mavis Hemsley and she was a couple of years older than me I think. She went to Church Drive school in Arnold. Just think, Phil, when you were climbing out of that shed window, you may have seen us making clover chains on the grassy part of the brickyard! You could have joined us..... 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AfferGorritt 868 Posted October 5, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 A few more ... and an extract of a poem by Joyce Kilmer. Was this the cow shed, I wonder? " ... But a house that has done what a house should do, a house that has sheltered life, That has put its loving wooden arms around a man and his wife, A house that has echoed a baby's laugh and held up his stumbling feet, Is the saddest sight, when it's left alone, that ever your eyes could meet. " 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AfferGorritt 868 Posted October 5, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 Oh, if anyone knows of anymore abandoned buildings, even if you can't get in them, I'd be interested to have a look. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted October 5, 2018 Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 Aaah, that poem is lovely. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,467 Posted October 5, 2018 Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 16 minutes ago, AfferGorritt said: Oh, if anyone knows of anymore abandoned buildings, even if you can't get in them, I'd be interested to have a look. In the same area, if you go into the flats complex named Appleton Gardens, drive straight down to the end (Streetview goes right in) and there's another disused farm house. https://goo.gl/maps/gQrNUMHsT252 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AfferGorritt 868 Posted October 5, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 Thanks, Cliff. I’ll have a look. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted October 5, 2018 Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 AG I think that property is what Real Estate agents here call a "Handyman's Special." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,418 Posted October 5, 2018 Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 Hmm, I wonder who owns it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,090 Posted October 5, 2018 Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 Brew, No idea who used to own it, but it has been compulsory purchased to make way for the Gedling Access Road. It’s under the point of the arrow in the middle of this map... http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/115332/garmap.pdf Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,418 Posted October 5, 2018 Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 Thanks Rob.... pity, it set me thinking... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,895 Posted October 5, 2018 Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 Just a few derelict buildings along our road. they are all one property. The one without the roof I have seen inside but theres no entry in at the moment. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AfferGorritt 868 Posted January 6, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2019 Continuing the theme ... Chase Farm is in now in the process of being demolished, so got in just in time. Now gated, CCTV'd etc., so no chance of getting in. Wandered down to Appleton Gardens to check out the old house that Cliff Ton mentioned. For all you terminally nostalgic folk out there (like me) took a few photos. Not quite as photogenic as the farm, but ... Looks like it was a very nice property in its day. All locked and bolted so no interiors I'm afraid. One of the residents of the flats told me that planning permission has been submitted to demolish and build, but they are protesting on access grounds. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jillthorpe 1 Posted June 2, 2019 Report Share Posted June 2, 2019 On 10/4/2018 at 9:55 AM, philmayfield said: The farm used to be owned, pre war, by my uncle’s father, Elijah Burton. He built a lot of houses in Woodthorpe, Maitland Rd., Breckhill, Grafton Avenue etc. He was also a coal merchant with a yard between Station St. and Queen’s Rd and a large garage/workshop behind some houses at the top of Maitland Rd. I don’t know what he did with the farm and there’s nobody alive to ask now. Elijah Burton was my great grandfather - I know very little of my family history so any info you have would be fab :) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,138 Posted June 2, 2019 Report Share Posted June 2, 2019 Was your maiden name Burton, Jill? Elijah had a proper sized Victorian family, Ivy, Lilian, Wilfred, Edith, Beatrice, Raymond, Hector, William Robert, my uncle. Can you relate to any of those? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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