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Waterfront Mews, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 4RL

New homes are being built on the site of long-derelict riverside warehouses - "Connecting city life and waterside living", according to the publicity.

Disused warehouse across the Trent from the Trent Valley Way

Only completed in 2020 following the development of new riverside apartments which have replaced former waterways warehouses.

Plenty of people were out on the river early on a lovely September morning and five canoeists were paddling upstream past new housing developments on the Sneinton side of the Trent.

The culvert is a major construction built in the 1880s to cope with surface water from the rapid urbanisation of the east side of Nottingham. It originates with the 'Beck' which flowed from St Ann's Well roughly on the line of St Ann's Well Road, Huntingdon Street and Lower Parliament Street to join the original River Leen a short distance east of the present London Road. To cope with the estimated maximum flow, based even then on a maximum recorded 1.4 inches (3.5 cm) in a 30 minute period, the culvert is 6 ft (1.8 m) diameter in its upper reaches, increasing to an oval cross section of 13ft 6 in x 9 ft 8 in (4.1 x 2.95 m). Note the commemorative foundation stone facing out into the river, where it would be virtually unread. In practice this is double sided, with the same inscription on the inland face, seen here http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7041196

The culvert is a major construction built in the 1880s to cope with surface water from the rapid urbanisation of the east side of Nottingham. It originates with the 'Beck' which flowed from St Ann's Well roughly on the line of St Ann's Well Road, Huntingdon Street and Lower Parliament Street to join the original River Leen a short distance east of the present London Road. To cope with the estimated maximum flow, based even then on a maximum recorded 1.4 inches (3.5 cm) in a 30 minute period, the culvert is 6 ft (1.8 m) diameter in its upper reaches, increasing to an oval cross section of 13ft 6 in x 9 ft 8 in (4.1 x 2.95 m). The stone is double-sided and set in the wall at the end of Trent Lane above the exit of the culvert http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7041192

A view towards the new houses at Trent Basin, built on the site of the concrete warehouses shown in Richard Croft's Image] (2011) and my Image] (2012). The chimney in the distance is at Eastcroft Incinerator.

From this angle the hoists overhanging the river can clearly be seen. This building can also be seen in Image] and Image

A September-morning shot showing the brown-brick tower of the new housing development being built on the former warehouse site at Trent Basin. In the distance behind the tower is the chimney of the Eastcroft incinerator. For an earlier image, see Image

The 1930s Nottingham Corporation warehouses at Trent Basin have been replaced by houses and flats, seen here in a telephoto shot taken from the other side of the river on a September evening. For an idea of what was here before, see David Lally's Image] and Image] (October 2009).