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Shortwood Close, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 7JF

This and the neighbouring housing on Cliff Road are an inter-war development of local authority housing tucked under the sandstone cliff on which the Lace Market area of Nottingham - the old Saxon town - stands. The buildings behind are built on the cliff and do not stretch down to the same ground level.

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

From 1900, when services were transferred from London Road to the new Victoria Station, Grantham line trains snaked above Sneinton on a series of brick arches and bridges from Weekday Cross Junction – now the site of the Nottingham Contemporary art gallery – to London Road and Trent Lane Junction. Apart from the bridge abutments either side of the canal east of London Road http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1891197 , the only remains of this line are a set of blue-brick arches between Maltmill Lane and Popham Street. This line was last used, for freight traffic, in 1974 and all other traces of it have now disappeared. High Pavement Unitarian Chapel - now a bar - is behind the Cornish Engineering factory on the right. For the other end of what remains, see Image

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.

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.

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.

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

A morning view from the corner of a car park off Short Hill in the Lace Market. Malin Hill runs down between the buildings on the extreme right and below the parapet in the foreground. Below the sandstone bluff on which the Lace Market stands are the council houses of the Cliff Road Estate, built after the slums of Narrow Marsh were cleared in the 1930s.