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Haddon Close, NOTTINGHAM, NG15 7NR

Dates from 1959.

Club which is anything but central but probably takes its name from the nearby site of the former Great Central Railway station.

Now an infilled cutting.

The 8.35 a.m. train pulls into Hucknall GCR station with a train for Nottingham. The date of the photograph is not known with certainty.

At its peak Hucknall had three passenger stations, the first of which was closed as early as 1931. In the 1960s the other two closed: Central in 1963 and Byron in 1964 (although the town has since regained a station on the Robin Hood Line). Central station was typical of the Great Central Railway's London extension with an island platform and buildings in a Jacobean architectural style; it opened in 1899. After closure the line continued to be used until September 1966. By the time this photograph was taken, about two years later, the track had been lifted but the buildings remained, albeit in a dilapidated condition - there was no attempt to prevent the public gaining access. See Image for a view of the station as it was in Edwardian times.

The side and rear elevation of the Hucknall & District Orthopaedic Clinic from Belle-Isle Road. The clinic was built in 1929 on land donated by Sir Julien Cahn (1882-1944) the entrepreneur, philanthropist & cricket supporter and 1st Baronet of Stanford-upon-Soar. It was built for the benefit of Hucknall residents with funds raised by public subscription and still provides physiotherapy services for patients from Hucknall and its catchment area including Bulwell and Eastwood. At one point Cahn lived in Papplewick, a village just a few miles from Hucknall. There have been several attempts to close it down on the grounds that it is not cost effective. Another argument put forward against keeping it open was that there was a shortage of parking space. As a result a disused garage at the rear of the premises was demolished in order to provide space for another dozen cars.