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Western Boulevard, NOTTINGHAM, NG8 1PG

Southwold Primary School was built in 1968 to serve the local council housing. Many people in the area then worked for Raleigh or Players. Formerly it was known as Wollaton Board School and was located where the University's Jubilee Campus is now sited. The school now serves a rich and diverse community with a range of cultures.

The Nottingham Ring Road just north of Crown Island

Typical Nottingham council houses.

In the background are the two remaining blocks of the old Player's Bonded Warehouse. Demolition began in June 2017. The site will be redeveloped as an extension of Nottingham University's Jubilee Campus. The cars are in the centre lane, so are probably heading for the city up Ilkeston Road.

Kennington Road is part of the catchment area for Southwold Primary School. It is a cul-de-sac, with a railway line running just beyond the furthest most houses.

Art deco pub on the corner of Trowell Road and Western Boulevard. It still retains the former Home Ales name in the stucco.

This is part of the Jubilee Campus of Nottingham University, and I really needed a photo permit, the friendly gateman told me. My reason for taking this dull picture on a dull morning, I explained, was that in the distant past this was the site of the canalside part of Babbington Wharf, where coal brought by a single-track railway from Babbington Colliery at Cinderhill was transferred to barges. The other part of Babbington Wharf was a set of sidings and a weighbridge on the other side of Wollaton Road, more or less where the houses and gardens of Marchwood Close are now. The wharf and the canal fell out of use in the first part of the 20th century and the Babbington Colliery Railway was abandoned south of Newcastle Wharf and Melbourne Park when Western Boulevard was built in the 1930s. Old OS maps show all of this clearly. For other vestiges of the Babbington Colliery line, see Image], Image], Image], Image], Image], Image], Image] and Image

Dating from the 1970s and built on an old allotment site.

These Imperial Tobacco Company warehouses on Wollaton Road (A609) were originally owned by Players. Although John Player (1839-84) was born in Saffron Walden, Essex he began his career by purchasing a shop on Beastmarket Hill NG1 and selling seeds and fertiliser. Later he started to sell loose tobacco to farmers and very soon his tobacco sales were proving much more lucrative. By 1871 he was registered as a tobacconist and was employing one man and three boys. In 1877, he bought a small tobacco factory at 45, Broadmarsh. By 1939 his third factory on Radford Boulevard had been constructed along with these bonded tobacco warehouses. Until their demolition, 2016-22, the latter had the capacity to store 20,000 tons of tobacco leaf. However, the site, including these buildings, was acquired by the University in 2016 for a 280-room hall of residence.