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Marham Close, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 4GR

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 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.

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.

The London & North Western Railway goods station at Manvers Street was built into the hillside and approached from the south-east on an embankment and a four-track bridge over Sneinton Hermitage. The main (covered) entrance for drays and later lorries was through the bridge straight ahead. The open slope to the right http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/318440 led to the cattle pens. 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.

The houses in the foreground were built on former railway land - sidings surrounding the approaches to London Road station (GNR) and Manvers Street Goods (LNWR). The sails of Green's Windmill were turning on a grey Sunday morning.

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.

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.

Formerly supporting a large railway goods yard, now developed for housing.