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Wollaton Avenue, NOTTINGHAM, NG4 4HY

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.

Part of the large post-war development off Arnold Lane which was essentially a pit village for the neighbouring Gedling Colliery, although it abutted existing residential areas. The old colliery site can be seen over the roof at the right hand side of the picture, and the skyline is created by the former spoil tips.

Part of the large post-war development off Arnold Lane which was essentially a pit village for the neighbouring Gedling Colliery, although it abutted existing residential areas.

One of several roads in the area named after collieries in Nottinghamshire. The development was essentially a pit village for the neighbouring Gedling Colliery, although it abutted existing residential areas. The colliery was in Image on the site now occupied by Phoenix Park

One of several roads in the area named after collieries in Nottinghamshire. The development was essentially a pit village for the neighbouring Gedling Colliery, although it abutted existing residential areas. Hucknall Colliery was in Image, in the bottom left corner next to the railway line.

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!

Gedling was a colliery village and a number of its post-War streets were named after other Nottinghamshire pits.

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).

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.