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Ascot Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG8 5HD

The Ascot Road end of a footpath through the allotments to New Bridge, Ainsley Estate and Old Radford. Player's Bonded Warehouse, on Wollaton Road, is on the skyline in the centre.

The nearer buildings are part of the Ascot Works of the Speedo swimwear company. The long building behind is no longer in the textile business but instead houses a large Cash and Carry business

A small estate is being built on the site of Ascot Works, near Bobbers Mill Bridge. Behind the camera the cinder path leads through allotments to New Bridge and Ainsley Estate. Image] was taken from a similar spot in 2009.

A housing estate is being built on the site of the former Ascot Works. On the left Collins Cash & Carry occupies an earlier factory building. For an idea of how things were until relatively recently, see Image] (2009).

Collins' Cash & Carry occupies a former factory; Ascot Works, the Speedo factory, is on the left, between road and railway. For a view from Ascot Road, see Image The plume of steam from Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, eight miles away, shows above the buildings in the centre of the picture.

The factory building latterly occupied by Speedo has been demolished, opening up a view of Collins Cash & Carry on Ascot Road. That building was once a cardboard-box factory. The Nottingham-Mansfield-Worksop railway line is in the foreground of this view from Bobbers Mill Bridge.

These new houses occupy the site of Ascot Works (latterly Speedo swimwear). For comparison, see Image] (2014).

Trains from Worksop and Mansfield are on the last leg of their journey to Nottingham as they pass Bobbers Mill Bridge and the Speedo factory on the right. This line was built, in 1848, to carry coal, but is now used by commuter trains. The overgrown area to the left of the tracks was once part of Radford Colliery. Player's Bonded Warehouse on Wollaton Road is in the distance to the left of the tree in the centre. On this bright early-autumn morning the plume of steam from Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, eight miles south-south-west of here, showed clearly. For another distant view of it taken a couple of hours later, see Image Alan Murray-Rust took Image] here in much greyer November 2007.

This not especially exciting 2009 photograph is now of some small historical interest as Ascot Works, latterly occupied by Speedo, was demolished in May 2013. This view from the path through the allotments (some of which are behind the hedge) which links Bobbers Mill, Ainsley Estate and Old Radford shows the former factory building (still standing) occupied by Collins Cash & Carry on the left and one of the more recent parts of Ascot Works straight ahead. Alan Murray-Rust's Image] shows Ascot Works from Bobbers Mill Bridge; my Image] and Image] show the site after demolition.

Ascot Works, latterly the Speedo factory, has been demolished, opening up a view across the allotments to Grassington Road and Ainsley Estate. The only clouds in a May-morning sky are from Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, eight miles away on the other side of the Trent Valley. For an idea of what was here before, and a fuller caption, see Image] (September 2011).