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Chilwell Court, NOTTINGHAM, NG6 9LT

View southwards, towards Nottingham (Victoria); ex-Great Central 'London Extension' main line, (Annesley) - Nottingham - Leicester (Central) - Marylebone, closed (down to Quainton Road and Aylesbury) 5/9/66. This station was closed on 4/3/63, just four months before the photograph. (There is no trace of the railway there 45 years later).

The trees and houses to the left of the common are on the site of Bulwell Common Station and its associated goods and carriage sidings, built by the Great Central Railway in 1898. The station closed to passengers in 1963 and to all traffic in 1968. It is now hard to imagine there was ever a main line running north through Bulwell.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm91703

There is an OS benchmark Image on the wall pier to the left of the two gateposts

A newly revamped children's playground, waiting to be finished off and reopened, is seen here at the eastern edge of Potter's Hollow Recreation Ground at the side of Hucknall Road (the A611). Bulwell Forest Golf Club is situated to the photographer's left, albeit not visible.

Rigley Drive - seen here at the junction with Hucknall Road - takes its name from William Rigley's railway wagon works, which stood to the left of here until the 1960s, specialising in the manufacture and repair of railway wagons and, latterly, the scrapping of steam locomotives. The Great Northern Railway's Leen Valley line, built in 1881 to serve collieries in the Leen valley, ran directly ahead and behind the camera until closure in 1968. Bulwell Forest Station (also behind the camera) closed to passengers as early as 1929.

A view of Gala Way on the opposite side of Hucknall Road (the A611) is seen here from the eastern edge of Potter's Hollow Recreation Ground. The stones are two of a linear series of similar stones that have been installed in the gaps in the tree-line of a copse that runs parallel with Hucknall Road. It seems likely that the object of the stones is to prevent 'travellers' setting up an illegal camp. Gala Road is a cul-de-sac serving a 'light industrial' zone.

A footpath along the western boundary of Potter's Hollow Recreation Ground. To the photographer's right lies Hucknall Road, the A611 road, linking Nottingham and Hucknall. The Great Central Railway line once ran along this western edge. It was the last main line built to London, opening to passenger traffic in 1900. It seems that trains from Manchester and Sheffield passed alongside Bulwell Common and through Bulwell Common Station on their way to Marylebone.

The entrance to Bulwell Forest Municipal Golf Course from Hucknall Road (the A611). The traffic is travelling away from Nottingham, towards Hucknall.

Memorial stone to a police officer killed whilst on duty in 2003 [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/4286340.stm].