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Sheridan Way, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 1QH

This was a good place for trainspotting on a schoolday evening, and seeing a Gresley V2 2-6-2 coming towards me on a northbound pigeon special was enough to make me press the shutter (far too soon). Much of what appears in this picture no longer exists, including the carriage sheds to the left (the site of Sheridan Way), New Basford station (behind the train) and the factory chimney on the right horizon. The council houses on the right are on Glamis Avenue. The cutting in the foreground has been filled in and built on. The historical interest of the picture (scanned and cropped from a tiny square print) may make up for its technical shortcomings. The Great Central Railway main line from London Marylebone to Sheffield via Leicester and Nottingham was the last trunk route to be completed (1899) and the first to close (1967). North of Nottingham and in the city much of its route has disappeared - embankments flattened, cuttings filled, viaducts demolished - and it is hard to follow. Compare with Image

This picture, taken at arm's length over a high concrete wall (thank goodness for the digital camera's swivelling display screen), only makes sense if viewed as one of a pair, with Image], which shows the same scene nearly fifty years before. The houses behind the trees are on Sheridan Way, which is built on reclaimed railway land. The distant horizon on the right is the sandstone ridge which divides New Basford from Forest Fields.

Suppliers of copper tube and fittings. On Quorn Road.

A view down the gentle slope at this end of Quorn Road - in the direction of Haydn Road - from the junction with Glendon Drive (just visible on the left). The premises of a couple of small factories (light industrial) characterise this end of the street, where the Quorn Road, Quorn Grove and Bagthorpe Close meet. The road widens as it heads into the distance towards Haydn Road.

The entrance to the Meridian Court Hall-of-Residence on Quorn Road, opposite Minstrel Avenue. Although described as being a part of the City Campus of Nottingham Trent University it is a 10-15 minute bus ride away from the city centre plus a 5 minute walk from the most convenient stop for the most best collection of services in & out of the city. It is situated on part of the former Meridian/Bairnswear textile factory site that had entrances on nearby Haydn Road. In 1963 the Courtaulds/Sara Lee Ltd conglomerate began to gradually take over the Meridian sites in the U.K. and to rationalise some of their manufacturing sites. Presumably this is why Nottingham Trent University were able to buy part of the site?

Looking north west.

Junction of Quorn Road, Bagshot Close, Quorn Grove and track with railings leading to Perry Road.

The conclusion of Quorn Road, Basford at the point where it divides to turn into Quorn Grove (marked with an old and very prominient circular-style street sign) and where it also leads into Bagthorpe Close. Bagthorpe was an earlier name for a large part of Basford that featured in the names given to a number of local institutions, e.g. Bagthorpe Workhouse (later integrated into the City Hospital) and Bagthorpe Gaol (now HMP Nottingham). A footpath in the distance connects Quorn Road with Perry Road.

Looking east from Quorn Road.