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Grenfell Terrace, NOTTINGHAM, NG6 0EN

This view eastwards from Park Lane bridge shows how the course of the former Great Northern Railway line from Nottingham to Derby Friargate has been obliterated since it closed in 1968. Ben Brooksbank's Image] shows what the lines east of here looked like in the days of steam; the position of the engine in that picture was just beyond the houses straight ahead.

Classic turn of the century (c.1900) Nottingham with 2 and 3 storey red brick terraced houses.

Old Basford is a good place for old painted signs on former Home Brewery Company off licences. This example, on the corner of Park Lane and Cheltenham Street, is the traditional version, advertising Apollo fizzy drinks and the Daybrook brew; on nearby Arnold Road the beer-off sports the 1960s version - see Image

The trackbed of the Great Northern line to Derby has been partly filled in to make a small playground. The curious-looking parapet was a British Railways replacement for the wrought-iron original and rather remarkably dates from 1965 - a year after passenger services ceased and only two years before the line was abandoned completely. Basford North station was to the left and the Basford East junctions, leading to where the GNR met the Great Central main line, the southbound line via the "Rathole" tunnel, were to the right. The other side of this bridge appears, under the footbridge, in Ben Brooksbank's 1963 pictures Image] and Image My father always called this "Dobby Bridge", but I've no idea why, or if anyone else did, or of the name's origin.

View eastward on the ex-Great Northern lines, towards Daybrook and Colwick ahead under the bridge carrying the ex-Great Central main line from Nottingham Victoria to Sheffield; Basford North (former Basford & Bulwell) station is behind the camera. The locomotive is Gresley V2 2-6-2 No. 60878 on the loop towards Bagthorpe Junction and Nottingham Victoria.

For a close-up of the old Home Brewery sign on the off licence on the corner of Cheltenham Street, see Image Straight ahead Park Lane once crossed the Great Northern Railway line from Nottingham to Derby Friargate. The bridge is still there, but there is little other evidence there was ever a railway here as the railway land has been redeveloped for housing and commercial purposes. See Image], Image] and Image

Looking north from the south eastern end of Brooklyn Road.

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On the corner of Arnold and Warlock roads. See also Image

UK Bus Stop Sign on Nursery Lane, Nottingham Nottinghamshire.