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Cliff Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 1GY

The council houses of Cliff Road, over which the sandstone bluff on which the Lace Market district stands looms, were built on the site of one of the city's most notorious slums, Narrow Marsh. The Loggerheads, now closed, used to have a nine-pin skittle alley.

Cliff Road, formerly Narrow Marsh, is situated at the foot of St. Mary's Cliff and as such is also within the Lace Market Conservation Area. The building in the centre of the picture is the former Loggerheads public house, an establishment that has not functioned as such for over 10 years. Planning permission is currently being sought for its conversion into nine apartments. St Mary’s Cliff is a distinctive landscape feature, sections of which have been reinforced with brick retaining walls to preserve properties on High Pavement above and behind it. On April 13th, 1828, a mass of rock and some brickwork, that had previously been part of a summer house, came cascading down crushing five houses adjoining the pub. One family who happened still to be in their home at the time of the accident escaped injury. In the distance former mill buildings associated with lace finishing processes were converted into apartments a number of years ago.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm34419

There is an OS benchmark Image on the front of the house near the left hand side corner

A tiny public garden or recreational area situated at the foot of St. Mary's Cliff between the former Loggerheads public house (not seen here but situated on the left) and some former mill buildings once associated with lace finishing processes that were converted into apartments a number of years ago. On the south side of the street, i.e. behind the photographer, are row of traditional local authority owned housing, c.1950s. This street was known as Narrow Marsh in the distant past and later renamed Red Lion Street. Following an extensive clearance of slum housing on the street in 1933 it was renamed Cliff Road.

Inside the National Justice Museum http://www.nationaljusticemuseum.org.uk/

A view of the former Loggerheads public house located below St Mary’s Cliff with glimpses of other properties that are also in the Lace Market Conservation Area behind it. The pub has been closed for more than 10 years and it is currently awaiting planning permission for conversion into nine apartments. On the south side of the street, i.e. on the photographer’s left, are a row of traditional local authority owned housing, c.1950s.

A spring-morning view from Malin Hill. The roofs in the foreground are of houses on Cliff Road. The NET tramway crosses the picture on the right, on the alignment of the old Great Central Railway.

Mixed housing and industrial development nestles below the high ground on which Nottingham's Lace Market, surrounding St Mary's Church, stands.

Before the council houses on the left were built, this was Narrow Marsh, one of Nottingham's worst slums.