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Pembroke Drive, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 5BG

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm118642

There is an Ordnance Survey benchmark Image on the brick wall pier at the junction

The house has been modified in recent years with an extension on its right hand side incorporating an integral garage which replaced a detached garage on which Ordnance Survey documents indicate that in 1962 had a cut mark benchmark levelled at 70.686m above Newlyn Datum.

This road includes some of the newer properties in Mapperley Park.

If not the work of the modernist architect Charles Voysey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Voysey_(architect) it is strongly influenced by him, with trademark features such as the sloping buttresses, the white pebbledashing and the decorative eaves supports.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm118640

Mapperley Park, long the home of Nottingham's prosperous, is the quintessential leafy suburb. This is the junction of Mapperley Hall Drive and Old Hall Drive, a steep and narrow cul de sac at the top end of which my Auntie Ethel and Uncle Harold lived in the 1960s.

There is an Ordnance Survey benchmark Image on the wall near the junction on the near side of the hydrant sign

Up the hill from the corner of Mapperley Hall Drive.

Now the Hyson Green & Carrington Sports Club, this long-established cricket ground was once the Nottingham City Police Training Ground, where I spent a fair amount of time as a child, watching my father play for the all-conquering Police side (all six-footers) which won the Notts Amateur League several times in the years after the War. This view is taken across the ground, which is scooped out of the sandstone, towards the houses on Carisbrooke Drive. (There are fierce notices threatening trespassers with prosecution, so it should be recorded that I had been invited on to the ground for a Proustian moment or two.)