University car park - once a canal wharf
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University car park - once a canal wharf
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 12 Jul 2011
This is part of the Jubilee Campus of Nottingham University, and I really needed a photo permit, the friendly gateman told me. My reason for taking this dull picture on a dull morning, I explained, was that in the distant past this was the site of the canalside part of Babbington Wharf, where coal brought by a single-track railway from Babbington Colliery at Cinderhill was transferred to barges. The other part of Babbington Wharf was a set of sidings and a weighbridge on the other side of Wollaton Road, more or less where the houses and gardens of Marchwood Close are now. The wharf and the canal fell out of use in the first part of the 20th century and the Babbington Colliery Railway was abandoned south of Newcastle Wharf and Melbourne Park when Western Boulevard was built in the 1930s. Old OS maps show all of this clearly. For other vestiges of the Babbington Colliery line, see Image], Image], Image], Image], Image], Image], Image] and Image
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