Robert Shaw Playing Field
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Robert Shaw Playing Field
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 27 Aug 2010
Robert Shaw Playing Field - named for the nearby primary school - is the triangle of land between the Nottingham-Mansfield and Radford-Trowell railway lines at Radford Junction. Beyond the embankment of the Trowell line are some of the houses at the end of Kennington Road. The Radford author Alan Sillitoe describes children's fights on this bit of railway and the building of the council houses on either side of the line in the 1930s in his short story "The Decline and Fall of Frankie Buller". A more peaceful child, I cycled here most evenings fifty or so years ago to see the St Pancras to Edinburgh Waverley Express go by, coal trains on the Mansfield line and shunting on the Radford Colliery sidings away to the left.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.958634
Longitude
-1.186274