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Radcliffe Mount, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 5FY

The direct line from Nottingham to St Pancras via Melton Mowbray closed in 1968. Some time later parts of the embankment which carried it through West Bridgford were levelled and the land used for housing. These new buildings contrast with Victorian and Edwardian Bridgford and show clearly on aerial photos. See Image], Image], Image], Image], Image] and others.

On the right are the 1960s Nottinghamshire County Council building, Trent Bridge House, and the rear of Trent Bridge Cricket Ground's 21st-century Fox Road Stand.

Nottinghamshire County Council's Trent Bridge House, on the corner of the Trent Bridge Cricket Ground, is on the left and the Rushcliffe Borough Council Offices (built as a hotel, next to Trent Bridge) are on the right horizon.

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.

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

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 white structure in the centre is the rear of the Fox Road Stand at Trent Bridge Cricket Ground. Image] is something similar from August 2009.

West Bridgford's population rose from 293 in 1881 to 7,018 twenty years later. It is essentially a Victorian and Edwardian suburb, which is why the narrow strip of new buildings between Radcliffe Road and Bridgford Park and running parallel to Stratford Road between Bridgford Road and Melton Road shows up so clearly on aerial photos. The houses in Cricketers Close and Radcliffe Mount which close off the end of Richmond Road stand where there was once a railway embankment, now levelled, which carried the Nottingham-Melton-Oakham-Corby-Kettering line on which the fastest trains from Nottingham Midland to London St Pancras ran.

At about seven o'clock the sun was high enough to catch the County Council offices on the corner of Trent Bridge Cricket Ground, but Radcliffe Road was still in shadow.