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Haydn Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 2JY

The path running in front of the main entrances into these six two-bedroom almshouses runs parallel with Haydn Road. The Pennhome homes were built in 1878 at the expense of Maria Christian Cartwright, wife of S. Cartwright, Esq., a J.P., of Leasowes, Staffordshire, to shelter poor widows or spinsters whose fathers had been merchants, tradesmen or professional men, or for ladies in reduced circumstances. Mrs Cartwright was a native of Nottingham. The Nottingham Community Housing Association became the trustees of this small complex in 1995.

There is an OS benchmark Image on the right hand corner of the nearest house

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm115861

These are the original Victorian school buildings on Haydn Road. The main school buildings of Haydn Road Junior and Infants School are now on the right-hand side of the road behind the railings, although these older buildings are still in use as an annexe. Mansfield Road (the A60) lies 200 metres behind the photographer and Hucknall Road is situated in the distance, approximately 5 minutes walk away.

Once the main school but now just an annexe. I seem to remember breaking my collar bone on those steps.

Haydn Road separates the previous (Victorian) school, seen at the forefront of this picture, from its replacement i.e. Haydn Road Junior and Infants School. These older premises are nonetheless still used as a teaching annexe.

A view of Haydn Rd, Sherwood from its junction with Mansfield Rd (A60) looking in the direction of Hucknall Rd (A611). This road forms part of a "rat run" for traffic between Mapperley, Sherwood and the B682 (Nottingham Road) and onto Basford.

Looking along the main road that passes through Sherwood (i.e. Mansfield Road, the A60) from junction with Burnham Street and towards the main shopping centre. The Sherwood Club, on the corner of Burnham Street, closed during the latter part of 2012. The Welbeck Medical Practice occupies the single storey brick building on the left, beyond the Sherwood Club. Opposite this GP surgery and behind the bus shelter is the new Police Office (sub-station) which, although now ready, remains to be put into use.

A view of the Spondon St entrance to Sherwood library. The library occupies the top floor of the building and users looking out of its upper windows, visible in the picture, would look out onto Mansfield Rd (A60). The red painted shop on the ground floor is a defunct pizzeria and there are plans afoot to convert it into a part-time mini police station for Sherwood and Carrington in 2012/13.

On the right-hand side of Mansfield Road (the A60) the new - but as yet unopened -Police Office (or sub-station) is visible, together with the local library above it. Spondon Street branches off the A60, to the right, behind the tree.