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Ardmore Close, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 4GP

Looking towards the smoke-blackened tower of St Stephen's Church (rebuilt in 1837) from the footbridge over the railway at Meadow Lane. The houses in the middle distance were built on abandoned railway land.

Lee's Hill Footway is a useful short-cut between Sneinton Hermitage (i.e. the road of this name) and Lees Hill Street. Although the blue-coloured brick abutments of the former railway structures are not particularly attractive a small off-shot public garden and/or rest area at the mid-point and a children's playground at the top of the steps showed some determination to make this chasm a little more acceptable to the local inhabitants.

The substantial blue-brick abutment on the left supported the four-track bridge which carried the London & North Western Railway goods branch from Trent Lane Junction to the Manvers Street goods yard, which was built into the side of the hill to the left. The LNWR gained access to Nottingham through the alliance with the Great Northern which led to the building of the GN&LNW Joint Line through the Vale of Belvoir to Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough and Northampton. The LNWR goods warehouse at Manvers Street was badly damaged by the Luftwaffe in Nottingham's biggest air raids in May 1941. The goods yard site is now occupied by houses of Newark Crescent and trees grow where wagons were shunted. Trams and later trolleybuses once ran along Sneinton Hermitage to the Colwick Road terminus.

This is Sneinton Hermitage (a cave site) on a road that is also called Sneinton Hermitage, as seen from Marham Close. Nottingham city centre is visible in the distance. The caves were inhabited until 1867 but in 1897 large parts of their outwardly visible facade were all-but destroyed when the London North Western Railway Company were permitted to develop a goods station on this site so that the rock face and some of the caves had to be cut away.

A small off-shot public garden at the mid-point along Lee's Hill Footway - connecting Sneinton Hermitage (i.e. the road of this name) and Lees Hill Street - shows determination on someone's part to make this shortcut a little more acceptable to the local inhabitants.

A view from the new railway footbridge at Meadow Lane. St Mary's Church, in The Lace Market, is on the skyline. The houses in the middle distance are built where there were once sidings and coal yards on the approach to London Road Low Level station. Part of the burned-out Great Northern Railway goods and grain warehouse shows above them to the left.

These steps connect Lees Hill Street (up the hill) and Sneinton Hermitage. The blue-brick retaining wall on the right was part of the large London & North Western Railway goods yard. A bridge carrying four tracks crossed Sneinton Hermitage straight ahead, but there is now no trace of it on the south side of the road, or of the embankment which carried the LNWR goods branch to Trent Lane Junction. The land has been levelled; the yellow-brick houses are on Marham Close, a development built partly where the LNWR lines were and partly (to the right) where the Great Northern coal yard and elevated line to Victoria Station via Weekday Cross once were.

These steps connect Sneinton Hermitage (behind the camera) and Lees Hill Street. The blue-brick retaining wall on the left was part of the large London & North Western Railway Manvers Street goods yard, which was built into the side of the hill and approached by an embankment and a substantial four-track bridge over Sneinton Hermitage. The LNWR gained access to Nottingham through the alliance with the Great Northern which led to the building of the GN&LNW Joint Line through the Vale of Belvoir to Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough and Northampton. The LNWR goods warehouse at Manvers Street was badly damaged by the Luftwaffe in Nottingham's biggest air raids in May 1941. The goods yard site is now occupied by houses of Newark Crescent.

A view towards the city from the corner of Meadow Lane. Years ago this was a trolleybus route, and the vista was closed by the huge railway bridge which carried the tracks to Manvers Street Goods Depot - its blue-brick abutment shows to the left of the row of houses on the right. The construction of that piece of railway destroyed the sandstone caves of Sneinton Hermitage which gave this road its name.

This massive Bulwell stone retaining wall supported the London & North Western Railway Manvers Street goods yard, which was built into the hillside above. The LNWR gained access to Nottingham through the alliance with the Great Northern which led to the building of the GN&LNW Joint Line through the Vale of Belvoir to Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough and Northampton. The LNWR goods warehouse at Manvers Street was badly damaged by the Luftwaffe in Nottingham's biggest air raids in May 1941. The goods yard site is now occupied by houses of Newark Crescent and trees grow where wagons were shunted http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/318446 . Trams and later trolleybuses once ran along Sneinton Hermitage to the Colwick Road terminus, and the area to the left of this shot was shadowed by the elevated GNR line from Trent Lane Junction to Nottingham Victoria via Weekday Cross - of which no trace remains, the land having been levelled and new roads, including City Link, built.