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Ferrers Walk, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 2GN

Stonebridge City Farm in the St Ann's area of Nottingham is located on a small site that was originally intended for a school. It opened in 1980 and now has a collection of farm animals including these sheep. It operates as a charity, staffed by volunteers, and gives an opportunity for inner city children to become familiar with animals that they might otherwise never encounter.

Stonebridge City Farm as seen from a public footpath connecting Stonebridge Road with Ferrers Walk (an internal Estate path).

Stonebridge City Farm (founded in late 70s) from Clarence Street.

Below can be seen former textile factories now converted to flats or light industrial use.

The modern St Ann's, a large Nottingham inner city social housing area, is a good example of a Radburn estate - a design that was very fashionable from the 1960s to the 1980s. The idea was to ruthlessly separate cars and pedestrians so that all the houses face on to walkways and cars are kept on access roads behind walls at the rear. In this view rows of terraced houses look out on to a grassed patch with mature trees perhaps intended to emulate a village green. It does not look unpleasant on a sunny morning but experience with Radburn estates in general suggests that the confusing layout with myriad cut throughs and paths (and parking areas hidden from view) is unpopular and encourages crime. St Ann's was comprehensively redeveloped in the 1970s after the previous housing stock of poor quality 19th century terraced houses - specifically built for the working poor - was demolished.

Paxton Gardens leads off Stonebridge Road. This area was comprehensively redeveloped in the 1960s and '70s when vast numbers of 19th century houses, built for the working poor and widely condemned as slums, were demolished.

Part of the St Anns redevelopment of the early 1970s, with the Victoria Centre flats on the skyline.

I don't think that this building was originally a church, and it certainly looks disused again now.

Victorian pub on St Mathias Road, with modern extension.

A view from the Jersey Gardens side of the former Lord Alcester pub towards the summit of St Mathias' Road with Woodhouse Street opposite. The pub was built in the 1950s but following its closure due to the economic collapse of its business it was converted into nine self-contained flats in 2012. The pub took its name from Admiral Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, the 1st Lord Alcester (1821-95), the British naval Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet between 1874-77 and of the Mediterranean Fleet between 1880-83.