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Newark Crescent, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 4NY

This odd cliff is largely the result of railway activity in the nineteenth century.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 Beck Burn is hidden for its entire length by a Victorian culvert that eventually leads to the Trent. The exact location of the photo is uncertain, though certainly lies within this grid square.

Typical three-storey terraced houses built in the years after Sneinton became part of the Borough of Nottingham in 1877. Houses like this can be found all over the city in the inner suburbs which mushroomed in the last quarter of the 19th century.

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.