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Bobbers Mill, NOTTINGHAM, NG8 5AH

The narrowest part of the twitchel past Lindley & Lindley's factory.

Part of the former hosiery works on Plantation Side.

Demolition of the former Lindley & Lindley factory site - latterly a business park - has been going on for some years and the large-windowed building with a sawtooth northlight roof is the only significant part remaining, the rest having been reduced to neat piles of broken brick. In this foreshortened zoom shot from Bobbers Mill Bridge the foreground is taken up with containers and lifts on the former woodyard; beyond Lindley & Lindley houses on Darley Road slope up to Bobbers Mill Road; behind them is St Stephen's Church, with its bellcote and spiky spire, and in the distance on the left Mount Street Mill on the top of the ridge which starts at Bobbers Mill and divides Radford, Hyson Green and Forest Fields from New Basford.

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.

Between the poplars are the roofs and chimneys of the houses on Darley Avenue.

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.

More of the old factory has been demolished since I was here in August 2009 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1442780.

Partly footpath and partly suburban street, Plantation Side runs from Alfreton Road Bobbers Mill to Gauntley Street, near the former Gerard's Soap Works. This is the narrow footpath between parts of the Lindley & Lindley complex, looking towards Alfreton Road.

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.

UK Tool Hire occupies a site which fifty years ago was a sawmill. The houses in the background, built in the 1930s, are on Alfreton Road.