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Waterside, NOTTINGHAM, NG16 5QF

Modern housing on the site of the earliest terraces of the village.

  Although not the same prospect this area of Ironville was photographed for the BBC's Domesday Project. Since then the area has undergone redevelopment (nearby signage suggests circa. 2006) and some of the buildings seen in the Domesday photograph have been removed. This photograph of boarded up shop fronts was taken in King William Square. The stones on the right of the photograph in the paved area are cobbles. To see the photograph from the BBC's Domesday Project of this area, click here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-440000-351000/picture/1 and to see its 2011 equivalent, click here: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2441241 . For another photograph of King William Square, click here: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2441267 . * * * For a local news story (Ripley and Heanor News) describing the removal of the King William Public house that stood on this site, click here: http://www.ripleyandheanornews.co.uk/news/local/king_billy_faces_final_bulldozer_1_718611 . For an interesting collection of much older photographs of the area from the Jacksdale and Westwood Community Website web site, click here: http://www.jacksdale.org.uk/pages/homep/ivkingbillysreet.htm .

It isn't clear from old mapping whether this was a warehouse associated with the Cromford Canal or part of a farm complex.

Looking west from Ironville Bridge.

There is a plan afoot to restore the Cromford Canal, which linked that Derbyshire village with the Erewash Canal and thence the River Trent and ultimately the whole wide world via the Humber, Thames, Severn or Mersey estuaries. In 1904 it could be written that the canal was "not much used" and "in indifferent condition"; a century later, as suggested by this view from Cinder Bank bridge in Ironville, those statements still hold true.

  When photographed ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-440000-351000/picture/1 ) for the BBC's Domesday Project this area of Ironville (rebuilt circa. 1979) was called The King William IV Centre. Since then the area has undergone further redevelopment (nearby signage suggests circa. 2006) and some of the buildings seen in the Domesday photograph have been removed. For other photographs of King William Square, click here: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2441267 , or here: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2441253 . * * * For a local news story (Ripley and Heanor News) describing the removal of the King William Public house that stood on this site, click here: http://www.ripleyandheanornews.co.uk/news/local/king_billy_faces_final_bulldozer_1_718611 . For an interesting collection of much older photographs of the area from the Jacksdale and Westwood Community Website web site, click here: http://www.jacksdale.org.uk/pages/homep/ivkingbillysreet.htm .

Pottery Lock, by Adelaide Walk, was no 3 in the Codnor Park flight of seven locks. There is a flow of water here from Codnor Park Reservoir to the River Erewash.

Pottery Lock, by Adelaide Walk, was no 3 in the Codnor Park flight of seven locks.