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Shelford Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG4 4HW

A phoenix may arise from ashes, but not from a demolition site. Despite being in the middle of housing development, there is now no other public house within a mile or more of this location.

A Nottingham City Transport No 45 bus has just left the Wollaton Avenue turning circle on its way back to the city centre via Westdale Lane, Mapperley Top and Woodborough Road. The picture gives an idea of how hilly the eastern side of Nottingham is.

A tight turning circle, hemmed in between houses and shops and with a drop of several feet from its north side, which has had to cope with the growth of buses over the years of its life. Here, one of Nottingham City Transport's large fleet of Scania/East Lancs (later Optare) OmniDekkas, almost 12m long, has just fitted around the turning circle and waits to return to the city centre on route 45. In the distance, the slag heaps of Gedling Colliery (closed in 1991) can be seen.

The view up Freda Avenue from Shelford Road in Gedling. One of the steepest of the many steep roads in the area, Freda Avenue is particularly prone to becoming impassable in snowy or icy conditions.

Wollaton Avenue is the terminus of two Nottingham City Transport bus routes from the city centre. On the left, a 45 (via Mapperley and Woodborough Road) lays over in the turning circle, while a 44 (via Netherfield and Colwick) waits outside the shops. From NCT's major network revision in September 2001, these routes were combined as a circular service, but they were split again in September 2010 in an attempt to improve reliability. What is now the 44 was originally a Trent route, but became a joint service with NCT around 1980; Trent pulled out some years ago, but I am not sure when (though I guess probably by deregulation in 1986).

Serving the local housing estates, originally developed as housing for the neighbouring Gedling Colliery. Showing little change from this view https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3845317 7 years earlier, except that I happened not to coincide with the presence of buses!

Snowfall in the hillier parts of the Nottingham conurbation generally results in some bus services being suspended until some clearance has taken place. Shelford Road, with a gradient of around 1 in 10 is one of these; here sufficient salt has got onto the carriageway to allow service to resume. The bus is a Daimler Fleetline with bodywork by Northern Counties to Nottingham City Transport's own design, new in 1976. This is one of a series of views featuring buses in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=137652761

A bus descends the eastern end of Shelford Road, Gedling, on its way into the estate from Nottingham city centre via Netherfield. The steepness of the road behind the bus is typical of this part of Gedling.

Freda Road, Gedling. It is signed as being a 20% gradient.

One of the principal local roads, with a main bus service and the local shops. It takes its name from the old Wollaton Colliery, situated in Image where Image now stands.