Sneinton: Lees Hill Footway
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Sneinton: Lees Hill Footway
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 8 Sep 2010
These steps connect Sneinton Hermitage (behind the camera) and Lees Hill Street. The blue-brick retaining wall on the left was part of the large London & North Western Railway Manvers Street goods yard, which was built into the side of the hill and approached by an embankment and a substantial four-track bridge over Sneinton Hermitage. The LNWR gained access to Nottingham through the alliance with the Great Northern which led to the building of the GN&LNW Joint Line through the Vale of Belvoir to Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough and Northampton. The LNWR goods warehouse at Manvers Street was badly damaged by the Luftwaffe in Nottingham's biggest air raids in May 1941. The goods yard site is now occupied by houses of Newark Crescent.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.94916
Longitude
-1.13049