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Acorn Business Park, Commercial Gate, MANSFIELD, NG18 1EX

Ring road heading clockwise around Mansfield.

A view of Nottingham Road (the A60) looking in the Ravenshead, Newstead and Nottingham direction as seen from a new-ish footbridge that crosses over Portland Street.

Stencilled graffiti in the subway between Commercial Gate and St. Peter's Way. A passer-by told me there was a spate of these sprayed around the Mansfield subways.

A view of Portland Street (formerly Bull’s Head Lane) looking towards its junction with Nottingham Road. On the left are the "additional six" almshouses built in 1844 and funded by the Elizabeth Heath Charity. Although this row of cottages "for ancient ladies" was in use until the Winter of 2011/12 they are now empty and boarded up. The original single-bedroomed almshouses – twelve in number – are situated on Nottingham Road and are still inhabited. Elizabeth Heath (1617-93), a Mansfield resident and a Quaker, endowed these almshouses for women born in Mansfield or having lived in Mansfield for a substantial part of their lives and with limited assets - criteria that remain in use today. The allocation of residents i.e. "six Quakers and six church members of the established church" presumably demonstrated a wish to avoid clashing with the Anglican authorities given that Quakers were frequently shunned by most other authorities at this time?

On St. Peter's Way. The other end emerges onto Commercial Gate. In the background is the Mansfield Town football ground (left) and the Boot's store on the St. Peter's Retail Park (centre and right).

On Commercial Gate.

The 280-tonne futuristic Gateway Bridge was put into place in the autumn of 2001. The footbridge, that cost £600,000, stretches 40 metres over this inner ring road and acts as the centrepiece of a major environmental improvement project that saw the transformation of the previously rundown Belvedere Street, Portland Street and Stockwell Gate area. Prior to the opening of the bridge, pedestrians and cyclists had to negotiate a multi-lane carriageway to access the “Portland Sidings Retail Park” and the football ground. The footbridge links the Portland Sidings shopping area on the left with the town centre and St Peter’s Retail Park on the right.

The 280-tonne futuristic Gateway Bridge was installed place in the autumn of 2001. The £600,000 footbridge stretches 40 metres over this inner ring road and acts as the centrepiece of a major environmental improvement project that saw the transformation of the previously rundown Belvedere Street, Portland Street and Stockwell Gate area. Prior to the opening of the bridge, pedestrians and cyclists had to negotiate a six-lane carriageway to get access to the “Portland Sidings Retail Park” and the football ground. The footbridge links the Portland Sidings shopping area behind the photographer with the town centre and St Peter’s Retail Park ahead.

Close to Mansfield railway station, the pedestrian bridge over the inner ring road. It links the old town centre with the new shopping area next to the football ground.