Sneinton: looking down Lees Hill Footway

Image: © John Sutton Taken: 8 Sep 2010

These steps connect Lees Hill Street (up the hill) and Sneinton Hermitage. The blue-brick retaining wall on the right was part of the large London & North Western Railway goods yard. A bridge carrying four tracks crossed Sneinton Hermitage straight ahead, but there is now no trace of it on the south side of the road, or of the embankment which carried the LNWR goods branch to Trent Lane Junction. The land has been levelled; the yellow-brick houses are on Marham Close, a development built partly where the LNWR lines were and partly (to the right) where the Great Northern coal yard and elevated line to Victoria Station via Weekday Cross once were.

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