IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Sandford Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 6AL

Recreating this 'First' for the square http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/39355

The entrance to "Duncan Macmillan House" from Porchester Road. This is the last remaining (operational) section of Mapperley Hospital and it was named after the last Medical Superintendent of this huge psychiatric hospital.

Ordnance Survey documents indicate that a benchmark levelled at 123.682m above Newlyn Datum was verified in 1962 on the wall, which appears to have been rebuilt above its stone bottom layers

On the left is the entrance to Mapperley Hospital, which at one time was for the mentally ill

On the wall surrounding Mapperley Reservoir.

On the right-hand side of this fence is one of the internal roads of the now defunct Mapperley psychiatric hospital seen passing the side of part of Duncan Macmillan House, the only section of the hospital still providing mental health services. Behind the black car on the left-hand side of the fence one of the end elevations of the derelict hospital church can be seen. The older building to the left of the church is "Nightingale House" on Ockbrook Drive, a part of this Victorian hospital that has been converted into modern apartments. Complementing this older section of the former hospital one of several new apartment blocks are also apparent.

Visited all possible gates to this well guarded reservoir compound. Formerly joint UA Top for Nottingham but hill 5527 Nottingham M1 is now believed to be higher. Name: Mapperley Hill number: 5528 Height: 130m / 427ft Area: 37: The River Tees to The Wash Class: Un Grid ref: SK 58790 43105 Summit feature: by reservoir gate Drop: 18m Col: 112m SK602449

Suburban Nottingham from a petrol station. Looking across the B684.

Drivers and pedestrians successfully getting to the top of Porchester Road - the long uphill route from Carlton Road, NG4 (the B686) - are treated to this sight at the junction with Woodborough Rd, although sometimes it is more sunlit. The land and the covered reservoir inside the gate (and perhaps the house too) belong to the Severn Trent Water Authority, although the house appears to have been divided into several flats. To the left of the house the "Mapperley Ridge" radio transmitter can be seen, albeit that it stands on a separate plot of land. The "Water Board" site, the transmitter and the area beyond it, plus the area the left-hand side of this picture are in the NG5 postal area, Porchester Road acting as the boundary.