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Mansfield Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 2EF

The New Carrington Inn on the left and shops to the right.

Formerly the Woodville Hotel, these retrospectively conjoined houses were converted to bedsits in 2003. The porch visible above the van near the centre of the picture was I believe the main entrance when it was a hotel, but is no longer used.

This small hotel in Mansfield Road is undergoing some repair work. It is very evident that, despite appearance, the building is not timber framed.

The northern section of Southwell Lodge (more of which is visible in Image). The rather haphazard shape of this part of the building appears to indicate that it has been extended more than once.

Looking towards Mansfield Road from the junction with Zulla Road. Mapperley Park is a large estate built at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century in the grounds of Mapperley Hall. The houses are an eclectic mix of Victorian styles showing examples of large family villas, semi-detached houses and late Victorian terraces. Ebers Road is on the western side of the estate.

Substantial houses in Mapperley Park, photographed on a bright May evening.

The junction with Ebers Road is visible in the distance.

Mapperley Park is a Conservation Area with a wealth of late Victorian and Edwardian housing on tree lined streets. Within easy walking distance of the city centre it is a popular area to live and many of the large houses on the south of the "estate" have been converted into flats. Zulla Road, on the south western side, is one of only two roads in the Nottingham area beginning with "Z". The other is Zulu Road a couple of kilometres west in Image Many of the roads in Mapperley Park are named after 19th Century military campaigns. Zulla was a small fishing village in Annesley Bay on the Abyssinian coast, (now Ethiopia). The village became the landing point during the 1868 campaign to rescue British hostages from the mountain fortress of Magdala. An account of this campaign, initiated by a "diplomatic incident" between King Theodore II of Abyssinia and the British Government, can be found at http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/africancampaigns/campabyssinia.htm Zulla Road joins Magdala Road at its southern end.