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Knighton Avenue, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 5QD

The road slopes down from Churchfield Lane to the River Leen. There are similar houses in nearby Kingsford and Knighton Avenues and on Churchfield Lane, all built in the late 1930s as the city expanded westwards beyond its Victorian and Edwardian edges.

In the 18th century Radford Grove Lane led down to Radford Folly, a fashionable pleasure garden by the banks of the Leen (see http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/whatnall1928/radford_folly.htm ). In the last century, the background of this view was dominated by the tall Players cigarette factory on the far side of Churchfield Lane, now demolished and the site of a retail park. The trees on the right are in Radford churchyard. Image] shows the Churchfield Lane end of this row of houses.

The brown-brick houses on Knighton Avenue, Woodstock Avenue, Kingsford Avenue and the west side of Churchfield Lane are all of a piece, with these distinctive half-timbered gables.

I took a comparable picture, Image], in November 2009. Image] is a broadside view of these houses, taken a few minutes later.

The former graveyard of St Peter's church.

A broadside view from St Peter's churchyard (now St Peter's Park), taken on a fine April morning.

It is indeed stationary - but sells stationery....

A long-established newsagent's shop on the corner of a late-Victorian block. See Image] for a view of it in November 2009, before the Lifestyle Express branding. (There was no such thing as lifestyle fifty-odd years ago when my mother and I walked up Churchfield Lane every week to pay the paper bill.)

Streets of distinctively-gabled houses laid out in the 1930s as the city expanded westwards beyond its Victorian and Edwardian edges.