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Basford Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG6 0JN

Looking towards the junction with Alpine Street and Church Street (see Image]) on a bright September morning. This was once Basford High Street. The black-and-white building on the right is The White Swan public house (see Image]).

A view of the now-defunct Congregational Church on Basford Road. Out of sight and behind the photographer lies a section of the boundary wall surrounding Church Field, a grassed-over disused graveyard that now provides an area of open space for local people.

This typically Nottingham three-storey corner shop, the Basford Pork Cob Shops, is on the corner of Alpine Street and Basford Road. In Nottingham dialect a round bread roll is called a cob. In former times the shop was a Home Brewery off-licence: the painted brick between the first-floor windows on the Alpine Road side and the space above the shop window on the Basford Road side carried the words Home Ales in green in the brewery's familiar style and its Apollo Table Waters were advertised on the painted panel above the corner door. In those days this was a sharp turn for the 41 Trent Bridge to Cinderhill trolleybus.

Formerly a malthouse, this building is part of first-year student housing for Nottingham Trent University.

1920s pub with ceramic faced ground floor and a fine ceramic inn sign.

Part of the semi-circular footpath that skirts part of Church Field (a defunct graveyard and now an area of open space for local people) as seen from near to the gates at the 'dead end' of Churchfield Terrace. Churchfield Terrace supports a footpath (only) between Church Field and Church Street. On the right, in the distance the ex-Swan pub can be seen on a continuation of Church Street and to the left of it some residential housing and the old Congregational Church are visible through the trees that are still in bud.

A fine ceramic inn sign on the White Swan pub in Old Basford.

This is one of the few stones left in the former cemetery. The plaque reads: "This memorial was erected by Thomas Bailey, the historian, in the grounds below (opposite this cemetery) to commemorate the passing of the Reform Act, AD 1832: & was removed here to mark the resting place of his much esteemed & valued friend". The terraced houses in the background are on Marlow Avenue.

This is the tomb of Anne and Adolphus Robert Marx, wife and infant son of Adolphus Marx of The Firs, Basford. It is one of the few marked graves left in the old cemetery, which is now a peaceful green space. The houses in the background are on Basford Road.