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Radcliffe Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 5FX

Shops and flats on Radcliffe Road, West Bridgford

It was bright and cold at seven o'clock on Good Friday morning. This is the view towards Lady Bay, near where the Nottingham-Melton-Kettering-London railway once crossed. For more about that, see Image], taken the previous September.

The former Gallery Hotel is being converted to flats. Image] shows the state of play in January 2017.

The former hotel is being converted to flats.

The grey building is The Gallery, formerly an hotel, now flats. Image] (January 2017) Image] (August 2017)

From 1879 until it closed in 1968 the railway from Nottingham Midland to Melton Mowbray (used by St Pancras expresses) crossed Radcliffe Road here, on a plate girder bridge. The Bathstore stands where the embankment was. Cars leaving Bridgford will either carry on along Radcliffe Road towards the Vale of Belvoir and Grantham or turn left towards the city and cross Lady Bay Bridge, the former railway bridge over the Trent.

Traffic heading out of Nottingham towards West Bridgford and the country villages beyond. This used to be the route of the Nottingham to Melton railway.

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.

The hotel closed in 2018 and is being converted to flats. The 1970s stone cladding has been removed from the frontage since I took Image] and Image] earlier in 2019.

The former Grantham Hotel was built as semi-detached villas and has recently been converted to flats. Earlier pictures: Image] (April 2019) Image] (July 2019) Image] (September 2019)