Sneinton Hermitage: railway retaining wall

Image: © John Sutton Taken: 8 Sep 2010

This massive Bulwell stone retaining wall supported the London & North Western Railway Manvers Street goods yard, which was built into the hillside above. 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 and trees grow where wagons were shunted http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/318446 . Trams and later trolleybuses once ran along Sneinton Hermitage to the Colwick Road terminus, and the area to the left of this shot was shadowed by the elevated GNR line from Trent Lane Junction to Nottingham Victoria via Weekday Cross - of which no trace remains, the land having been levelled and new roads, including City Link, built.

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