Valley Road Park, Nottingham, NG5
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Valley Road Park, Nottingham, NG5
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 12 Jul 2014
This recreation ground is situated between Day Brook, a river that acts as a natural boundary between City Hospital (off screen on the left) and the A6514 (to the left of the railings). The series of lamp posts bordering these Nottingham Petanque Club’s pistes once provided external lighting on the P.Z.Cussons (U.K. Ltd) soap factory site in Basford. Gerard Bros Ltd opened a soap manufacturing factory in 1893 and it was taken over by Cussons Ltd in 1955. When Cussons closed the factory in 2009, having decided to shift its production elsewhere, one of the founding members of the petanque club asked if the club might have the lamp posts as an alternative to them ending up as scrap metal. The newly installed club storage premises can be seen here.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.988059
Longitude
-1.151905