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Sheets Stores Industrial Estate, NOTTINGHAM, NG10 1AU

These were built for the Midland Railway's factory for the production and warehousing of the tarpaulins used on open railway wagons. This use finished in the 1960s but some of the 19th century buildings survive as a small business park.

As far as I was aware until reading an information board close to where this was taken from this was still called the Sheet Stores Basin, but apparently not. The board also enlightened me as to where the curious name of "Sheet Stores" came from: The origin of this group of industrial buildings was as a coal wharf for the Midland Counties Railways in 1840, as the need for canal-transported coal declined this became the Midland Railways Sheet Stores, where tarpaulins were made and repaired. That use finished in 1963 and the area is now a general industrial estate. A boatyard serves the boats, the sound of an angle grinder filled the air at the time that this was taken.

As far as I was aware until reading an information board close to where this was taken from this was still called the Sheet Stores Basin, but apparently not. The board also enlightened me as to where the curious name of "Sheet Stores" came from: The origin of this group of industrial buildings was as a coal wharf for the Midland Counties Railways in 1840, as the need for canal-transported coal declined this became the Midland Railways Sheet Stores, where tarpaulins were made and repaired. That use finished in 1963 and the area is now a general industrial estate. A boatyard serves the boats, the sound of an angle grinder filled the air at the time that this was taken.

As far as I was aware until reading an information board close to where this was taken from this was still called the Sheet Stores Basin, but apparently not. The board also enlightened me as to where the curious name of "Sheet Stores" came from: The origin of this group of industrial buildings was as a coal wharf for the Midland Counties Railways in 1840, as the need for canal-transported coal declined this became the Midland Railways Sheet Stores, where tarpaulins were made and repaired. That use finished in 1963 and the area is now a general industrial estate. A boatyard serves the boats, the sound of an angle grinder filled the air at the time that this was taken.

The basin started life in 1840 when it was built by the Midland Counties Railway as a transfer point for coal from the Erewash Canal onto the railway for onward transit. By the 1850s the coal traffic had decreased and it was developed as a central manufacturing and storage base for the tarpaulins used on railway trucks, from which the name Sheet Stores evolved. It now provides a small set of moorings and also a boatbuilding yard.

Traditional narrowboats (unidentified) reflected in the basin.

Built in 1840 for the Midland Counties (later Midland) Railway, an early example of a skew bridge, Listed Grade II. This arch, crossing a farm track, is more or less original. It was apparently built in stone rather than the Railway's more usual brick at the insistence of the Erewash Canal Company. See the listing description https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1417992 for very comprehensive information about the bridge, and http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5643529 for the canal span.