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Park Avenue, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 4HS

An important milestone in the development of Catholic liturgy in the mid twentieth century. The church was designed by Gereard Goelen and the stained glass by Patrick Reyntiens https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1376603?section=official-list-entry

A modern Catholic church, taken from the car park.

This ultra-modernist church makes an impressive statement; the detached spire-cum-bell tower [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1042516] is especially striking.

The small park behind The Vale public house at the corner of Mansfield Road and Thackerays Lane was once home to Woodthorpe Cricket Club, for which I played in the late 1960s. There is no sign of a wicket now, or of the tennis courts which restricted the width of the cricket field - which also had such short straight boundaries that it was only a delicate chip for a six into the garden of the club president, on Park Road, to the right. The trees in the background are growing on the embankment of the short-lived Nottingham Suburban Railway, whose passenger service lasted only from 1889-1931, but which remained open until 1951 to serve Mapperley brickworks. It curved south from Daybrook Junction (just offstage left, where B&Q now stands) and passed through and under Woodthorpe Grange Park, serving stations at Sherwood and Thorneywood, before joining the Grantham line at Trent Lane Junction, trains terminating at London Road. Its course through Woodthorpe is marked by the curve of Worcester Road, while further south the almost appropriately-named Raibank Gardens is built on the trackbed.

Recreating this 'First' for the square http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/18589

Thackeray's Lane Recreation Ground on a frosty morning. Thackeray's Lane, i.e. the A6211, lies outside the park's boundary railings behind the photographer. It seems likely the Thackeray mentioned here was Mr John L. Thackeray, an Alderman who resided in, and later rebuilt, a house called Arno Vale House. He owned cotton mills in the suburb of Radford and was the Mayor of Nottingham in both 1854 and 1856. He died in September 1886, aged 74 years.

A westward view of the rear of the Mansfield Road B&Q DIY Store from the top of the 'frying pan handle end' of a remnant of a former railway embankment in Arnot Hill Park. The Great Northern Railway Derbyshire Extension ("The Back Line") ran from Netherfield & Colwick on the Grantham line to Derby via Kimberley and Ilkeston. The 'frying pan handle end' of the embankment continues behind the photographer until it eventually reaches a more substantial part of this public park and an entrance/exit into Arnot Hill Road.