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Bagnall Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG6 8SF

Most of the inter-wars houses on Bagnall Road are brick, but a few are of the local Bulwell stone.

The Phoenix Park tramway branch follows the line of the former Midland Railway mineral line from Babbington Junction on the Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop line to Babbington (Cinderhill) Colliery. This view through the overhead, taken from Bagnall Road bridge, shows the stiff downhill gradient to Highbury Vale.

Looking west near Highbury Vale tram stop.

In the fifties and sixties Greenwich Avenue (or Mill Street) Playing Field was used by Forest Fields Grammar School, and I spent many happy games afternoons in the summer term practising on the matting which covered these three concrete strips (and many unhappy winter afternoons trying to avoid getting involved in any action on the rugby pitch). The field, still owned by the City Council and a local amenity, is largely occupied by the pitches of Basford United FC and Football Academy. The houses in the background are on Greenwich Avenue.

This was once the Forest Fields Grammar School Playing Field, known as Greenwich Avenue or Mill Street. In the summer term the First XI wicket was more or less in the middle of this expanse of grass, the practice nets against the back-garden fences of the houses on Greenwich Avenue.

Looking west from its junction with Tricornia Drive (extreme right), Bagnall Road rises to cross the Phoenix Park branch of the Nottingham Express Transit tramway (formerly a mineral railway to Babbington colliery). The red brick buildings on the left front into Cinderhill Road, which Bagnall Road meets at its west end.