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Alfreton Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 5NL

This is at the corner of the old Alfreton Road and Plantation Side, looking towards the footbridge over the railway where there were once a level crossing and a signal box. This road became a side street when Bobbers Mill bridge was built in the 1930s to carry Alfreton Road over the Nottingham to Mansfield railway. Lindley & Lindley made nylon stockings. Latterly the buildings were leased to a number of businesses.

Not a lot has happened (but spot the differences) since I stood on more or less the same spot in April 2010 to snap Image There was rather more of the old factory waiting to be razed the previous August, as Image] shows.

Not a lot has happened since I last passed this way in September 2011 - see Image], which has links to earlier pictures.

The tarmac in the foreground is Alfreton Road, which becomes Bobbers Mill Bridge where the slope begins on the left of the picture. Bobbers Mill Bridge, built in the late 1930s at the same time as Western Boulevard as the city expanded westwards, replaced the old Alfreton Road, straight ahead, where there was once a level crossing over the Nottingham-Mansfield railway. The houses on the right are the same design as others in the area and also date from the late 1930s. The former Lindley & Lindley factory shown in Image] is behind them.

Part twitchel, part suburban street and part footpath, Plantation Side leads from Alfreton Road at Bobbers Mill to Gauntley Street and Wilkinson Street, on the edge of New Basford. The building straight ahead is the only remaining part of the former Lindley & Lindley factory, now occupied by several businesses.

Looking towards the city towards the end of the rush hour on a misty April Tuesday, with plenty of parking spaces in the city-centre multi-storeys. To the left is the parapet of the part of the bridge which crosses the River Leen. A City Transport Turquoise Line No 77 is making for Aspley Lane and Strelley.

A view from the end of Poulter Close, towards the largely cleared site of the former Lindley & Lindley hosiery factory. When I lived nearby as a child, Radford Colliery was behind the camera, and what is now Poulter Close (but not the short new section of it nearest to Bobbers Mill Bridge) was its access road. This was a brighter morning than the one a month before when I snapped Image] on the old sawmill site in the wedge between the A610 and the old Alfreton Road.

Demolition of the former hosiery factory has been going on for some time. The broken bricks which are all that remain of the buildings which once filled the wedge between Alfreton Road (left) and Plantation Side have been piled more neatly since I was last here earlier in 2011 - see Image], which has links to earlier views.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm47877

There is an OS benchmark Image on the side of the house, right of the black downpipe.