2. Bulwell Bogs 3. The Workhouse
meat. of source useful a was and Beside the River Leen at Basford at Leen River the Beside
dovecote also dates from this time time this from dates also dovecote The changing history of Bulwell Along Northcote Way an old Inmates had to wear uniform
Strelley of Hempshill. The nearby nearby The Hempshill. of Strelley perimeter Bulwell Stone wall is and were given hard labour such
site of an active workhouse. workhouse. active an of site Bogs can be charted via its three
charity school funded by George George by funded school charity clearly visible, this was built when as stone breaking, digging or
Hospital which was once the the once was which Hospital bridges. The oldest is the 1830s
dates from 1667 and was an early early an was and 1667 from dates Highbury Hospital was originally uncoiling rope, while men and
perimeter wall of Highbury Highbury of wall perimeter stone bridge which once carried
Strelley House is the oldest and and oldest the is House Strelley
first floor stone oriel window. window. oriel stone floor first Basford Workhouse - a Victorian women were segregated both
still be made out along the the along out made be still the only route to Basford now
fine and historic buildings survive. survive. buildings historic and fine
by a local man and features a fine fine a features and man local a by prison for the unemployed from each other and the outside
horrors of the workhouse can can workhouse the of horrors known as Station Road. This
Road in two, yet thankfully some some thankfully yet two, in Road
doctors surgery in 1919, designed designed 1919, in surgery doctors poor. Its history begins in world. Food rations were weighed
leisurely during that time: the the time: that during leisurely ancient route features nineteenth
constructed cutting Commercial Commercial cutting constructed
Solicitors. This was built as a a as built was This Solicitors. 1814 during a period of rising before eating and the day-to-
period. Yet not everything was was everything not Yet period. century houses, some of which
so a ring road and flyover was was flyover and road ring a so
under the care of Sheltons Sheltons of care the under unemployment and economic day routine was disciplined
public recreation in the Victorian Victorian the in recreation public are built out of magnesium
the traffic would increase and and increase would traffic the
the most original is currently currently is original most the uncertainty. The government by religious instruction. Over the bridges recall the battle for for battle the recall bridges the limestone, which was quarried
quarries. Many people thought thought people Many quarries.
Mill Street and Waterford Way. Waterford and Street Mill
from this busy period and perhaps perhaps and period busy this from sought to control the situation via 300 inmates jostled for space known as “Bulwell Bogs”, where where Bogs”, “Bulwell as known nearby and called Bulwell Stone.
potteries, collieries and stone stone and collieries potteries,
some proud remains between between remains proud some
littered with interesting buildings buildings interesting with littered the workhouse, a place where alongside children, the sick, the cuts through a waterside park park waterside a through cuts The bogs were always a source
estates were built on farm land, land, farm on built were estates
all but disappeared, yet there are are there yet disappeared, but all
bleachworks. Main Street is is Street Main bleachworks. the poor were incarcerated disabled and the elderly. By the day. South from here the Leen Leen the here from South day. of fun and recreation in Victorian
the town’s western side. These These side. western town’s the
Bulwell and Basford, has nearly nearly has Basford, and Bulwell
nearby collieries, quarries and and quarries collieries, nearby upon receiving benefits. 1930s it was gradually replaced to the town’s industrial hey hey industrial town’s the to Bulwell until a land owner
building of housing estates on on estates housing of building
once important to the success of of success the to important once
the town was booming with with booming was town the by a more successful system from the seventeenth century century seventeenth the from attempted to enclose the grounds
doubled in population with the the with population in doubled
Finally, the industry, which was was which industry, the Finally,
early twentieth century, when when century, twentieth early of education and healthcare. are still lined with great buildings buildings great with lined still are in 1871. A dispute ensued
in the 1970s when Bulwell nearly nearly Bulwell when 1970s the in
the river and nature has returned. returned. has nature and river the
was in the late nineteenth and and nineteenth late the in was The iron footbridge built in 1880
crossing and these ancient roads roads ancient these and crossing known as “the battle of the
survives. This radically changed changed radically This survives. wagons no longer rattle across across rattle longer no wagons Bulwell’s architectural heyday heyday architectural Bulwell’s
pattern was centred on the river river the on centred was pattern bogs” which was only resolved
the medieval street pattern pattern street medieval the Nottinghamshire. Today, the coal coal the Today, Nottinghamshire.
At Bulwell, the medieval street street medieval the Bulwell, At by Nottingham Corporation,
Main Street and Station Road Road Station and Street Main
carried coal from western western from coal carried who agreed to purchase and Commercial Rd with former shop fronts shop former with Rd Commercial
Between Commercial Road, Road, Commercial Between
railway companies as they they as companies railway
history and wildlife once again. again. once wildlife and history preserve the bogs in 1879.
embankments built by competing competing by built embankments so that people can enjoy the the enjoy can people that so
is crossed by former railway railway former by crossed is are being built alongside the river river the alongside built being are Strelley House Strelley A year later the iron footbridge
Recreation Ground, the route route the Ground, Recreation important history. Today paths paths Today history. important was built - note the leisurely lattice
Before you reach Mill Street Street Mill reach you Before
been forgotten about despite its its despite about forgotten been balustrade with curved brackets. The former workhouse building. and since then the river has often often has river the then since and Seven years later the Highbury Image courtesy of Reg Baker and
www.picturethepast.org.uk
Leen was embanked in the 1960s 1960s the in embanked was Leen Road bridge was completed and
wildlife once again” once wildlife The bogs waterside recreation park
River Trent at Wilford. The River River The Wilford. at Trent River is marked by the fantastic Public
enjoy the history and and history the enjoy
Newstead Abbey and falls into the the into falls and Abbey Newstead Hall built in 1895 for entertainment “Highbury Hospital
as it flows south from as far as as far as from south flows it as and early cinema shows.
so that people can can people that so was originally Basford
route follows the River Leen Leen River the follows route
built alongside the river river the alongside built History repeated itself in 2002 The Bulwell to Basford car free free car Basford to Bulwell The Workhouse - a
when local residents successfully
“Today paths are being being are paths “Today campaigned to save the Victorian prison for
1. Bulwell Town Bulwell 1. Bulwell – Basford – Bulwell Bogs from development. the unemployed”
5. Industry River Leen Greenway 4. The Railways Welcome to the River Leen car Between the Deptford Crescent The other two lines were built free walking and cycling map. River Leen Greenway footbridge and Highbury Vale by famous railway companies We’re delighted to bring you this tram stop there were three who were competing with each unique insight into the history of Bulwell – Basford railway tracks crossing over other to supply coal to the city. this well-used and popular route. the River Leen and heading The huge embankment beside If you’d like to find out more west, two of which left the main a pedestrian footpath to Garton car free route Nottingham - Worksop line, while Close still preserves the remains about walking or cycling maps, Pearson’s former bleach works organised rides or travel planning another crossed the Leen Valley of this Great Northern Railway line tools then visit www.thebigwheel. after circling the eastern half of which arrived in 1876. Unnerved Some of the numerous riverside org.uk for more information the city. The first was Thomas by their rival, the Midland Railway millers between here and North’s colliery line, constructed followed this route only six years Papplewick were also innovators You can also download a copy E Sallis hosiery manufacturer during a mid ninteenth century later. Today you can stand on in cotton spinning and bleaching. of this map by visiting www. economic boom in Nottingham, the earthen remains of the route George Pearson and Co’s thebigwheel.org.uk/riverleen The River Leen had always as land was released for building before the footbridge which bleachworks was built by the factories which demanded fuel connects to Deptford Crescent. meandered near Davids Lane and in the nineteenth century it 1880s on Southwark Street - one from the coalfields of West of many factories which used Nottinghamshire. The tram to was a hive of industrial activity and experimentation. Our first the waters of the River Leen Phoenix Park follows the original and Daybrook in order to dye route to North’s mid nineteenth relic is the mill on Mill Street, which was built in the early Nottingham Lace perfect white. century colliery at Cinderhill. Until the City Council bought Stanton Tip is a reminder of nineteenth century to grind “...there were three corn from the fields to make Vernon Park in 1900, it was the millions of tons, which were formally the ornamental lake hauled out of the earth here. railway tracks flour - a reminder that agriculture wasn’t far away. The mill leet and garden of a bleachworks crossing over which was the watercourse that owner. Despite the decline of the River Leen & powered the mill, is still visible. hosiery at Basford, Ernest Sallis and Co’s works on Waterford heading west” Way is a remarkable survival and an architectural gem. The building is complete in its original 1950s deco style and is still run by the family descendants.
Formally a landscape crossed by railways River Leen Greenway Bulwell – Basford Map Key
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