IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Rosecroft Drive, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 6EL
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Rosecroft Drive, NG5 6EL by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (28 Images Found)
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Typical 'twitchell' of Nottingham City Council houses
Nottingham Borough Council built a huge number of council houses between the 1920s and the early 1950s. The bulk of them were built to a limited number of designs which can be found all over the city.
The eight houses here represent one of the commoner designs: a terrace of four houses with a central arch giving access to the back gardens of the central houses.
Houses grouped along a pedestrian footway (usually known locally as a twitchell) are also a characteristic feature of the design of the estates where most of this housing was built.
Also visible are the original picket fences: usually supplemented, as here, with privet hedges.
Image: © SK53
Taken: 4 Jan 2011
0.06 miles
2
Brightening a dull wall
An instance of graffiti making a positive contribution.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 18 Mar 2014
0.06 miles
3
Garages at the back of Sherbrook Road
It's clear that virtually none of these has seen any use for a long time.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 18 Mar 2014
0.07 miles
4
Site of former council housing off Rosecroft Drive
There were three blocks of maisonettes containing 36 dwellings (69-139 Rosecroft Drive) located here until around 2008.
The maisonettes are an unusual building type in the housing stock of Nottingham Borough Council. Existing examples are located on Abbey Bridge, Marchwood Close and Kibworth Court. I presume that the individual flats are single-aspect (i.e., back-to-back) given the size of the buildings, number of flats and doorways located on all sides of the building.
Image: © SK53
Taken: 4 Jan 2011
0.10 miles
5
Boundary Marker, off Sherbrook Road
A scruffy view of the rear of one of the standard Nottingham cast-iron boundary markers. It is in a school playing field which makes it difficult to get to the front of it.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 18 Mar 2014
0.12 miles
6
Sherwood/Daybrook: Peggy's Park
The gate, designed by young people from Edwards Lane Community Centre, reflects the place's relatively recent past, as part of the Great Northern Railway's Nottingham-Derby railway, known as the Back Line. An information board gives a good potted history of the line, with pictures.
Though in the Sherwood area of the City of Nottingham, the park is not far from the site of Daybrook Station.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 25 Jun 2013
0.16 miles
7
Daybrook: houses where trains once ran
The houses of Longdale Road are built on the site of Daybrook Station, on the Great Northern line to Derby. Daybrook Station and the section of the line between Basford North and Gedling closed in April 1960 when Mapperley Tunnel was declared unsafe.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 25 Jun 2013
0.16 miles
8
Home Brewery buildings, Daybrook
Now council offices
Image: © Q
Taken: 14 Jun 2005
0.17 miles
10
Byron Street from Mansfield Road
Locally typical brick built terraced houses
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 22 Jun 2008
0.19 miles