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Mansfield Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 3GE

The main entrance/exit into and out of the eastern-most end of this park. Valley Road is on the other side of the fence.

The exit from the culvert under Mansfield Road. Originally running in a straight line, it was diverted to the right in around 2008 as part of flood alleviation measures.

The Day Brook is seen here entering the flood plain area of this precious green space. Behind the photographer's right shoulder is a man-made short cut out onto Mansfield Road (opposite Thackeray's Lane).

Former Home Ales pub. Situated at a busy junction on the A60, as you can see. The building is Grade II listed: List entry Number: 1255455 https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1255455

Substantial public house from the 1930s. One might assume as it is now a Greene King establishment that it was a Kimberly Ales (Hardy Hanson) tied house. However it was designed by T Cecil Howitt of Nottingham, for Home Ales Brewery. While it still sports the text-only sign on the substantial fluted column Image, it now also has a somewhat romantic vision of a mountain vale on a sign at the car park entrance on Mansfield Road Image It has a Grade II listing List Entry Number:1255455 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1255455?section=official-list-entry.

These strategically placed boulders serve as stepping stones across Day Brook near to the park's Mansfield Rd/Valley Road junction entrance/exit.

The Day Brook, seen from the stepping stones near to the Valley Rd/Mansfield Rd park entrance, meanders through the flood plain area of this precious green space.

The front of this historic pub faces Mansfield Road, i.e. the A60, whereas this south-easterly end faces Thackeray's Lane, i.e. the A6211. The bus appears to be heading towards Sherwood and then on to Nottingham city centre. These licensed premises were designed by the Nottingham born and nationally acclaimed architect Mr T. Cecil Howitt. It was designed as a hotel and built in 1935-37 with two single-storey wings and art deco style semi-circular bowed windows, one of which is seen here. A further single storey wing room was added to the rear in 1964 in similar style with a bay window by Howitt & Partners. The original internal layout has been retained with only a modest 'opening-up' and overall the pub is a Grade II-listed building because of its late-1930s 'Moderne' style. Also visible is its notable inn sign, the subject of a separate statutory listing, consisting of a circular base with carved bench seats and a fluted Doric column of stone with a capital topped with a three sided lantern that has been replaced by sign boards. Thackeray's forms part of the boundary separating Nottingham (NG5) and the town of Arnold in the Borough of Gedling.