River Leen at Bobbers Mill

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The photograph on this page of River Leen at Bobbers Mill by John Sutton as part of the Geograph project.

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River Leen at Bobbers Mill

Image: © John Sutton Taken: 19 May 2010

A friendly man walking his dog told me this area was "The Hidden Jewel of Bobbers Mill". It's hard to imagine that this tranquil spot was until the 1960s next to a busy colliery. Old photos of Radford Colliery show the concrete-post-and-iron-rail fence which now borders Maun Avenue. The streets of houses to the right were built in the 1970s on colliery and railway land. In the 18th century, though, this was Radford Grove http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/whatnall1928/radford_folly.htm , a fashionable pleasure garden, and Radford Folly, a stuccoed brick tower, survived in ruins into the 1950s, in a sea of colliery spoil.

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