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Orston Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 5FU

A short road, one of three named after villages in the Vale of Belvoir, off Radcliffe Road and near Nottingham Forest football ground.

These houses are right next door to Nottingham Forest's stadium, The City Ground. Photograph taken from Scarrington Road.

This snap may only be of interest to bathroom or railway enthusiasts. The new building ahead stands where the Midland Railway main line from Nottingham to St Pancras via Melton Mowbray, Oakham, Corby and Kettering, closed in the 1960s, once crossed Radcliffe Road on a plate girder bridge. I stood where there was once an embankment to take the picture. The Melton line, which carried Nottingham's quickest London trains and brought iron ore north from Northamptonshire, turned south at London Road Junction, crossed the Trent on what is now the Lady Bay road bridge and ran north and south through West Bridgford, where its course shows clearly on the 1:25,000 map, and on the ground as a strip of new buildings built where there were once embankments. Image] and Image] show remains of the line south of here.

This road has crossed the River Trent on Lady Bay Bridge, originally a railway bridge and joins Radcliffe Road a short way ahead. The crane is on a site near the junction where one- and two-bedroom flats, Bridgford Point, are being built.

When I was young the Bridgford End of Nottingham Forest's City Ground was an open terrace. Following the profitable success of Brian Clough's side in the 1970s and 80s (which included two European Cup wins) the ground was almost completely rebuilt.

This short stretch of the abandoned Grantham Canal runs behind the Forest football ground and joins the Trent just west of Lady Bay Bridge. Kate Jewell's Image] shows the lock there and Image] the Environment Agency office next to it, whose road entrance is here. To take the picture I stood roughly where the Nottingham-Melton-Kettering-St Pancras railway once crossed the canal. Behind the camera the canal has been filled in as far as the junction of Trent Boulevard and Radcliffe Road, where there was once a rather ornate bridge. Its reedy remains run parallel to Radcliffe Road from there to Gamston bridge.

This is the Bridgford End of The City Ground. The end of the Brian Clough Stand shows above the bushes on the right. The road in the foreground is where, until the 1960s, a railway bridge crossed the Grantham Canal, one of whose truncated abandoned stretches is just to the right. The Midland Railway Melton line, which carried Nottingham's quickest London trains and brought iron ore north from Northamptonshire, turned south at London Road Junction, crossed the Trent on what is now the Lady Bay road bridge and ran north and south through West Bridgford, where its course shows clearly on the 1:25,000 map, and on the ground as a strip of new buildings built where there were once embankments. Image], Image] and Image] show remains of the line south of here.

Short stretch of the disused Grantham Canal near the City Ground

Money Shop Bridgford Stand at the City Ground http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Ground

Shops and flats on Radcliffe Road, West Bridgford