Basford: former railway goods warehouse
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Basford: former railway goods warehouse
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 11 May 2010
This photo, taken from the footbridge over the tramway and railway at Basford tram stop, shows the large wooden Midland Railway goods warehouse and the area which was once the goods yard of Basford Vernon station. Another goods shed, in brick, stood behind the northbound platform just below where I was standing; it appears in Ben Brooksbank's 1963 photo of Basford station http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1768922 . In the background are one of the Basford gasholders and the tower of the church of St Leodegarius. My schoolfriends and I were disappointed to find that Leodegarius was not the patron saint of gas - the production of which dominated this part of Nottingham. (Parts of Basford Gasworks appear in Ben's photo, but the gasholders were empty and therefore not visible from here at the time he took it.)
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Image Location
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52.980334
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