MMapperleyapperley ParkPark Park Residents’ Association Newsletter news No. 12 September 2007

CONTENTS 3 The Chairman’s message 5 Good news from Chellie 6 Autumn Fairs & Festivals 11 What was Patchitt’s Park? 12 St Augustine’s architect 14 Letters from residents 16 Memories of Mapperley Park 16 Plant some free bulbs JOIN THE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION, SEE PAGE 16

PHOTOGRAPHS above: The Garden Group visiting Wollerton Old Hall top: Flower boxes planted by residents have much improved the roundabout on Mapperley Hall Drive far right: Adam Hopewell(R) and Alan Ball, MD and Associate Director of Hopewell’s the furnishers, cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats for charity right: Kathryn Rodgers bungee jumping during her gap year travels in New Zealand below: Dirty Hands’ debut single Get on yer bike Charlie had an enthusiastic reception from the music press Mrs A W Rae, Holly Tree House Dental Practice 962 2882 Directory of Useful 334 Road CHURCHES St. Andrews C of E, Chestnut Grove 960 4961 & 912 0098 Contacts Main services Sunday at 10.15am and 7pm MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS Editorial Team Suma Harding e-mail: [email protected] St Augustine’s Catholic Church, Woodborough Road 953 9839 Sharon Jamieson email: [email protected] Principal Mass times: Vigil Mass Saturday at 6pm Sue Ahsan email: [email protected] Sung Mass Sunday at 11am Correspondence to The Editors c/o 31 Lucknow Drive, Mapperley Park, NG3 5EU St John’s C of E, Mansfield Road, Carrington 962 1291 Main service Sunday at 10am Advertising/Production Christine Walker 947 2485 18a Cavendish Crescent North, Nottingham NG7 1BA St Jude’s C of E, Woodborough Road 985 6131 THE MAPPERLEY PARK RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION Sunday: Traditional service 9.15am Contemporary service with children’s groups 11am Chairman Carole Ayre 962 2004 Informal service 6.30pm Secretary Elizabeth Sanders Treasurer David Towers 962 1513 Sherwood Methodist Church, Devon Dr/Mansfield Rd 962 2616 Membership Marcus Wakely 960 9038 Main services Sunday at 10.30am and 6.30pm Traffic David Cummins 969 1106 Trees David Podesta 960 3029 YOUR LOCAL COUNCILLORS Crime and nuisance Tony Stock 960 4349 Emma Dewinton (Lab) 960 8198 Social Events Suma Harding email: [email protected] Michael Edwards 915 5050 or 07876 203352 Other members David Pemberton 844 9894 email [email protected] Paul Watts 960 9964 Mo Munir 969 3126 Neighbourhood Watch and Surgery: Outside Co-op, Mansfield Rd. Third Saturday of every representing Private Road Lesley Baker 960 9572 month 10.30-11.30am (except August & Bank Holidays). Representing Elm Close Peter Henson 960 7561 Telephone for advice or appointments outside usual surgery times.

SOCIAL GROUPS COUNCIL NUMBERS Mapperley Park Tennis Club, Carisbrooke Drive 969 1278 Anti-social Behaviour 915 1135 City Information 915 5330 Membership Secretary Cynthia Lyndo Cleansing Services 915 2000 Council Tax 915 4851 Magdala Tennis Club, Magdala Road 966 3047 Abandoned cars " Trees: Club Secretary Jenny Wheelhouse Dumped rubbish " Street 915 2264 The Nottingham Bridge Club, Mansfield Road 960 7992 Street cleansing " Protected 915 5414 Dog Warden 915 6223 Education 915 0706 Mapperley Park Book Club Stasia French 910 7644 Pest Control 915 6170 Drains 915 6650 (Lively discussions about books of your Highways & pavements Library 915 2828 choice; meets monthly at residents homes) (cracks & potholes) 915 6156 Planning Permission 915 5426 Book Club 2 Sheila Reece 962 1320 Building Regulations 915 5358 Pollution Control 915 6410 Meets on 3rd Wednesday of month 1pm to 3pm Public Health 915 6798 (smoke emission & noise) Social Services 915 5500 Street Lights 915 2211 DOCTORS Trading Standards 950 7910 Drugs 915 1956 Dr Andrew Flewitt and Dr Mona Vindla 985 8552 If you cannot find the service you require listed above then Sherrington Park Medical Practice, 402 Mansfield Road try the City Council switchboard on 915 5555 Dr Mark Stevens 841 2022 Mapperley Park Medical Centre, 41 Mapperley Road POLICE Dr D G Black & Partners 985 8822 Sherwood Health Centre, Elmswood Gardens, Sherwood Station 967 0999 Beat Officer, Mapperley Park, PC Jeanette Stasuik 07792 437306 DENTISTS Police Community Support Officer Anil Chand, Mapperley Park Dental Care 962 4607 Prostitution Task Force 967 0555 ext 4249 18 Mapperley Road (NHS & Private) Paul O’Dwyer and Gary Morphus Dr Andrew Cluskey & Dr Chris Stead (Private) 960 2717 Tavistock Drive Dental Care, 1 Tavistock Drive Whilst every reasonable care is taken, neither The Mapperley Park Brian Snape, Mapperley Dental Care 960 5282 Residents’ Association nor its agents can accept any liability for 431 Woodborough Road (NHS & Private) any inaccuracy or any loss or damage arising from any articles, Dr Mistry, The Grange Dental Centre 962 3432 advertisements or other items in this publication. The views expressed in 480A Mansfield Road, Sherwood (bottom of Private Road) this publication are not necessarily those of the Association.

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2 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS September 2007 Letter from the Chairman

TREES are one of the most distinctive and for making spears). I think (with affection) of the tree outside my loved features of Mapperley Park. I am not house as a “dirty tree”, because it rains down on my car and garden part of the tree hugging fraternity but I do a black sticky honeydew, excreted by the legions of aphids that infest marvel at their age and grandeur, and the it, but the wood of the Sycamore is, in fact, clean and imparts no journey some species have made from far unpleasant smells or taste, making it ideal for uses connected with away places. food. It serves well for furniture and flooring and those trees fortunate Take the humble Sycamore, which lines enough to produce a wavy grain have the honour of being made into Carisbrooke Drive. How did it get to Britain the best violins and other musical instruments (“fiddle-back” wood) from its home territory on the high grounds and veneers. of southern and central Europe? So, perhaps the results of my research on the subject of the Some think it arrived with the Romans and yet, a prolific self- Sycamore will add interest to your walk down Carisbrooke Drive, seeder, it was still thin on the ground in the 16th Century and has or your favourite violin piece - I am already looking into the story only really become firmly established over the last 200 years. It is behind another of Mapperley Park’s woody treasures! one of the Maples (Acer, Latin for ‘sharp’, Maplewood being good CAROLE AYRE

Open gardens in Carrington Sports Mapperley Park Plan to keep residents Ground available next year? informed by e-mail for hire AFTER visiting the open gardens Carrington in The Park this summer I We are looking into the possibility of compiling a list of Sports Club would like to extend thought how much fun it would Mapperley Park Residents’ e-mail addresses. This would the use of the Carrington Sports be to organise a Sunday afternoon enable us to send out reminders regarding forthcoming Ground. There is a high usage in June next year when we opened events or notify residents of any important news. for cricket during evenings and some of our gardens. E-mail addresses would be used for this purpose only and weekends but it is largely unused Some members of the gardening would not be passed on to any other parties. during the day. This high quality, local green space can be hired for group have already expressed an If you would like us to contact you in this way, please send daytime events such as workplace interest, but we would love help, your details to: advice and participation from as cricket matches and school sports. many residents in Mapperley Park [email protected] Anyone interested, please as possible. contact Rachel Gray, Acting Secretary, by email at rgray@ndbs. If you would like to help in any group have installed in the area, ‘New CCTV is org.uk or telephone 0115 960 5588. way please contact Lorna Weir. he commented that “Criminals Telephone 960 3897 or e-mail community benefit, commit crime because they [email protected] and not Big Brother’ know they can get away with it Log on to your we will begin with a meeting in Chief Constable and CCTV works to close their Neighbourhood October. opportunities.” Please let me know which CHIEF Constable, Steve Green, Watch evening of the week is the most addressed a packed room when Mr Green also made the point DID you know that Sherwood and convenient for you and I will he attended the Sherwood and that the ownership of the CCTV Mapperley Park Neighbourhood organise a date accordingly. Mapperley Park Neighbourhood system was by the community, not Watch Association have a web site? LORNA WEIR Watch Association public meeting the police, something he felt was a Here you can find details of Built in 1908? in March. He was generous healthy innovation. This was not a local NW meetings and news with his praise of Sherwood Big Brother system spying on the of new security measures in the Would anyone in Mapperley Neighbourhood Watch and the residents, it was a system owned area. By registering, you can also Park who has a house which will principles of Neighbourhood and managed by the residents access the forms for reporting be 100 years old next year please Watch itself. Referring to the new for the general benefit of the incidents or anti social behaviour. email the editor. CCTV system that the Sherwood community. Visit www.samnw.co.uk Mapperley Park Coffee Mornings Working from home? Child free for a few hours? Retired? New to the area? If you would like to meet some new people and share ideas and interests come to our coffee mornings held on the second Monday in the month, 10.30am - 12 noon. Regularly attended by 25. Next meetings: September 10, October 8, November 12, December 10. Next year: January 14, February 11

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www.hopewells.co.uk Chellie’s Curiosities We have also increased the can be sure that I will be there rain did not stop burglars from number of crimes that have been for two days a week, so I will targeting homes in our area. In detected, with 22 per cent so far gradually get to meet more of you. Mapperley alone, there has been Will Chell in 2007 for Mapperley, and 26 per Our Police Community an increase of 33 per cent in Local Area cent for Carrington. Support Officers (PCSOs) burglary reports. Homes are being Commander The new Sherwood police are now all trained to use the broken into overnight, with many City North station should open in August, Neighbourhood Watch website, doors left unlocked or windows which will provide bigger and so we can access community left open. better facilities, which will intelligence and update Thieves are also forcing back suit the increasing number of information even quicker. We doors, as this reduces their chances GOOD news! All crime in staff dedicated to your local are still keen to get more people of being noticed. Small items are Mapperley is down by 4.71 per neighbourhoods. I am still registered and ask them to visit generally being stolen, such as cent compared to the same time working to get the other services www.samnw.co.uk for more mobile phones, loose change and last year, and Carrington has had a to use this new building as their details. Inspector Andy Rooke, even car keys. Please remember to 5.16 per cent decrease too. base in the near future and you the deputy head of service for the lock up, even small windows left Community and Neighbourhood open allow access for burglars. Protection Service, has now taken We also need you to be our over line management of the Kerb eyes and ears, reporting unusual Crawling task force. behaviour, or giving us any We are continuing to engage information about people you with the people we serve and as suspect are committing crime. We part of this process, we want to will act on what you tell us and hear from any groups who feel take steps to continue to reduce they would benefit from having a crime. If you have information police officer or PCSO visit them we request you to contact to discuss concerns that matter Police on 0115 to them. As part of the Safer 9670 999, call Crimestoppers in Neighbourhoods initiative, we confidence on 0800 555 111, visit want you to help us help you! www.samnw.co.uk, or call your While the city managed to local beat manager directly. The Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit in front of the Carrington Sports Ground avoid floods this summer, the pavilion Resident’s Rolls-Royce in Autocar magazine DAVID Tower’s Rolls-Royce Spirit II, owned by Rolls-Royce was featured in the Autocar of (with the familiar registration Junior School Ages 4-11 Senior School Ages 11-18 11th July 2007, as a ‘High- ‘2000TU’). This older car looks mileage Hero’. significantly different from the His ‘high-mileage’ 1996 1996 model so the substitution Open Day Silver Spirit has covered a is something of a mystery. total of 98,000 miles but most As Stuart Price wanted a Saturday 10th November of this was with its previous location without kerbs, they owner. David bought the car took the car to Carrington 9.30am - 12noon in December 2006 and, using Sports Ground and the staff it only on special occasions, readily gave permission for the has since covered about 2,500 photoshoot. Ordinary miles. For the technically minded, boys The article in Autocar was the photographer had two achieving written by James Ruppert, digital SLR cameras with about extraordinary following an extended 7 million pixels. However, things telephone conversation with the depth of the colour is the owner, but Autocar the important factor, and the photographer, Stuart Price, pictures were about 25Mb each. Sixth Form Open Evening came to Nottingham specially At the end of the session, the Tuesday 2nd October - 7.30pm to photograph the car and photographer extracted a 4Gb several of his photographs, memory stick from the camera! appeared in the article. But If you’re interested, David T: 0115 978 6056 strangely, the main photograph says his 1996 Silver Spirit is E: [email protected] Waverley Mount, in the feature was not of David’s ‘wonderful’ to drive and ‘a joy’ W: www.nottinghamhigh.co.uk Nottingham NG7 4ED car at all, but of a 1989 Silver to ride in. September 2007 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS 5 Travels with a van in New Zealand

By KATHRYN RODGERS some convincing that it was the impressive looking a bit more like a (very) badly cut scenery and not Orlando Bloom that played a poodle than a sheep; the quintessential New AT 10,000 feet from the fast approaching main part in this). Zealand activity?, caving, which involves ground below, all I could hear was my slightly climbing, crawling and swimming through panicked (and seemingly still drunk) skydiving My first few months in New Zealand were a series of glow-worm filled caves, bungee instructor saying, “Errmm ... uhh ... well ... no spent working, until l could afford a quarter jumping from the world’s first commercial one’s ever been that inflexible before. Errm ... share in a camper van that was older than me bungee site, and zorbing, which is the unusual you might actually break your legs ..”. and which represented my not-so-generous activity of being rolled down a hill in a giant I say instructor, but this was the only piece salary of $2.50 an hour. inflatable ball; perhaps in the future this is the of instruction I had been given since he had And so we set off... with non-existent map way everyone will be getting around the hills of convinced me to throw myself out of a plane reading skills, two more people than our Mapperley Park! for no apparent reason; a decision which I was already small van was designed to carry, a children’s ‘Action Man’ tent, and the hope that fast regretting. After eight months in New Zealand, the time our ancient van would survive the journey. He was referring to the position I was to end our travels had come. With its doors supposed to be in as we landed, which I was Setting off from Auckland, we decided to falling off, cracks in windows, one breakdown, discovering was completely impossible for drive around the coasts of both islands, stopping one smashed headlight and an unidentifiable someone who can’t even touch their toes. for whatever adventures we could find along smell of cheese, we somehow managed to pass I spent the rest of the descent with two the way. Our evenings were frequently spent on our now antique van, made over with lots thoughts. Firstly, praying that I would manage searching for somewhere we could park our of air spray and lots of masking tape, to some to land with both legs still intact, and secondly van and set up our tent (which soon proved unsuspecting Russian travellers who seemed wondering how I’d managed to be tricked into to be the least waterproof tent ever made). very happy with their new purchase. believing that ‘skydiving is the world’s safest On one occasion we ended up pitching it on sport’. Perhaps I should have stayed in a small traffic island in a city centre, as this was Wherever a gap year is spent, there are lots of and taken up croquet instead?! the only piece of grass we could find, much to lessons to be learnt and adventures to be had. Unlike most, my gap year travels were the the amusement of the locals who stopped to And if there is one piece of advice I will give to grand total of 10 days in planning, and the take photos of us. anyone embarking on a gap year, it is this: stay location chosen was due to my friend’s love of Some of our most memorable experiences away from the red Mitsubishi with the cracked The Lord Of The Rings films (although I took included shearing a sheep, which ended up headlight!

RESIDENTS’ ADS Private ads are free. For next MPN send WHAT’S ON SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER by 1.2.08 to the Editors or 18a Cavendish Crescent North, NG7 1BA Festivals - Fairs - Food - Fireworks ROCKERY stones. Want a fantastic rockery this Autumn? Great THANKS TO SHELLEY FOR THE LIST OF EVENTS. selection of stones now available from Park resident. Call 0771 700 3903 CLEANING LADY is looking for work in September 13-16 October 28 Mapperley Park. References. Please call Leicester International Music Festival Diwali Lights Switch-0n Kate on 07749 877407 World-class musicians presenting concerts Takes place in the Belgrave district of YOGA Classes, Sherwood, Tuesday evng. and master classes. Leicester. It marks the Hindu Festival of Light British Wheel of Yoga trainee teacher, and the start of the Hindu New Year with Grainne Lamb 985 7002 or 07759 489898 September 21-Oct 5 thousands of revellers ensuring it’s the largest Leicestershire Food Fortnight Diwali celebration in the UK. Traditional At Melton Mowbray. A celebration of local dancing, music and fireworks add to the food in the home of Stilton cheese and pork attraction. pies. Involving producers, retailers and Alexander Technique restaurants. Demonstrations such as The Art November 5: Anne Rowlands m.STAT of Chocolate. Bonfire Night 0115 847 8801 September 30 November 7-10: Filshie Osteopathic Clinic Baby and Toddler Show Loughborough Fair Sherwood. NG5 Advice, demonstrations, products, services Annual family fun event covering the entire www.thefilshieclinic.co.uk and ideas for parents of young children. town centre with funfair rides, arts and crafts. Fashion, toys, food. Free creche. Conference Centre, University Park, Beeston. Entrance November 18: £4.50. Leicester’s Christmas Lights Switch-0n October 3-7 December 2: Goose Fair Forest Recreation Ground Melton Mowbray Victorian Christmas Fayre October 6-7 A Santa parade, farmers’ market, cooking East Midlands Food & Drink Festival exhibitions, stilton cheese tasting, pork pie With more than 200 exhibitors displaying workshops, dance, choirs, musicians, street the best the East Midlands has to offer with entertainers, owls and Clydesdale horse celebrity chefs and demonstrations. displays and steam engines.

October 20-21 December 6-9: Robin Hood Pageant Newstead By Night Newstead Abbey

6 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS September 2007 Pixel Laser Skin Resurfacing Another First for Mapperley Park Clinic

The “Lunch Time Laser” is the holy grail of the aesthetic world and we would all love a maximum impact, minimum down time, long lasting treatment. The reality is now closer than ever.

A revolution in laser technology has now enabled skin resurfacing to be done with only a couple of days of down time.

While traditional resurfacing lasers and deep peels require two weeks off work, the new Pixel laser is carried out as a series of three sessions with only 48 hours of redness after each session. Born again skin

( Hallelujah! ) Before Mapperley Park, Registered in 1993, was the first medically led laser clinic to open in the East Midlands. All treatments are carried out by highly trained medical professionals and the clinic was among the first to be inspected by the Healthcare Commission with inspection scores consistently amongst the highest in the country. After

The clinic boasts a long history of firsts over the last fourteen years and is delighted to Suitable for face, neck, chest and hands add the Pixel laser treatment to the list. this laser is the first skin resurfacing option for non-facial areas. It is ideal for Treatments available at Mapperley Park Clinic treatment of lines, wrinkles, pigmented Skin rejuvenation and removal of fine lines, Laser sweating, hair restoration and micro-follicle skin and acne scarring and also firms skin, hair removal, Nlite and Pixel lasers for acne and transplantation, laser treatment for birthmarks improves texture and reduces pore size. acne scarring, full range of injectables including and tattoos, laser and non-laser treatment for Restylane, Perlane, Laresse, Sub Q, Sculptra and sun damaged and pigmented skin, radio BOTOX®, Glycolic, TCA and Obagi peels, removal frequency for skin tightening and fat/cellulite If you would like your skin to of facial and leg thread veins by laser and reduction, Plastic Surgery consultations and sclerotherapy, Endovenous laser treatment of procedures, full range of prescription and be born again, simply call: varicose veins, removal of skin tags, moles, cysts, medically proven skin treatment products, skin warts and verrucas, BOTOX for excessive analysis and face mapping. 0800 980 2681 We only use clients, not models in our advertising.

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Registered CO 30000273 395 Mansfield Road Nottingham NG5 2DL Neighbours BBQ to be a regular event

ON Sunday May 20th the ‘Meet your Neighbours Barbecue’ took place at the Ukranian Centre on Mansfield Road, as advertised in the last edition of Mapperley Park News. We were fortunate to have a beautiful warm, sunny day and so were able to sit outside in the garden where we enjoyed the wonderful food which was cooked by the centre’s staff. Although the turnout was a little disappointing, it was good to be able to meet and put names to some familiar faces in such a relaxed and informal setting. Our thanks to everyone at the Ukranian Centre, who made us very welcome and fed us very well indeed! It was a lovely afternoon. We hope to make this a regular event in the future, so please consider joining us next time. Look out for details in the next newsletter!

8 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS September 2007 Gardening Group goes visiting by LORNA WEIR painting in March and the group Our coach trip in June was revisiting next year instead. was able to admire his beautiful fortunately also on a sunny day. Our programme for the rest Since my last article the group paintings. April brought a sunny We left a grey Nottingham and of the year includes visits to have had some very interesting visit to the gardens of Mapperley drove into lovely warm sunshine the allotments at St Anne’s and enjoyable meetings. In Hall. Malcolm and Sheila Reece at Trentham Gardens. There was and Derby House. We will be January our first AGM was a showed us the communal such a lot to see that I will be having a plant swap in October “sell out” and the room at the gardens where the tulips were in revisiting the park as soon as it and a talk by Paul Read on the Ukrainian Centre was packed. full flower. A delicious tea was stops raining! We then had lunch development of his garden in I would like to thank everyone served on the lawn and everyone and a wonderful afternoon at Woodborough. The year will who has supported us, both enjoyed sitting chatting in the Wollerton Old Hall. The garden end with an opportunity to by giving their time to help sunshine. The weather was more is often voted in the top ten make your own Christmas organise events and by giving inclement when a hardy group favourite English gardens and it Wreath with Helen Archer. their hospitality to the group. went on a tree walk around was easy to see why. Every time If this has whetted your Mrs Teeton hosted a very well the grounds of Trent College you turned a corner there was a interest, please come and join attended talk on “Flower Power” led by David Pinney, a retired gasp of delight at the colours, the group and get to know your by John Gregory in January. biology master, who was a mine intensive planting and the neighbours whilst enjoying We were lucky to have a of information which he made beautiful design of the different some garden themed activities. sunny day to see the snowdrops very accessible and memorable. “garden rooms”. Unfortunately You certainly don’t need to be an at Hopton Hall in February Next time you have a root canal our evening event in June was expert gardener! You can contact followed by lunch at Carsington filling, think about the gutta cancelled because Michael Fish’s me on 9603897 or by email at Water. Vic Sawle gave us a percha tree which provides an garden was under 14 inches [email protected]. fascinating insight into the ingredient of the filling, as well of water. Since the damage meticulous art of botanical as the centres of golf balls! done was extensive, we will be A great day out Sunday 14th October MAPPERLEY Park ladies will be Bonanza’ on Sunday 14th October pleased to hear of the return of will occupy the whole of the Albany Mainly for Ladies fund-raising for Suite at the Britannia Hotel on Maid British Red Cross with an Autumn Marian Way. Open from 11am to fair. 5pm with tickets on sale from the ‘October Bonanza’ will feature beginning of September. Sunday Lunch ABOVE: (L to R) Pam McKenzie, Suma Harding, Jane Barton and over 30 stalls and displays - fashion from elegant to funky, tasty treats, Special offer from the Britannia Judith Naylor The organisers of the Winter Ball presenting the cheque to accessories, jewellery to die for, Hotel - their three course carvery Jane Barton for Rutland House School. home and life style ideas and a lunch with entrance to ‘October Decleor beauty presentation by Bonanza’ is only £10. Winter Ball At Prestwold Hall Pure Aesthetics. Plants for sale will Entrance including delicious The Winter Ball raised over £2000 which was given to Rutland include hardy perennials, unusual afternoon tea is just £7, or you can House School in Mapperley Park and Macmillan Cancer Care. alpines, and bulbs for winter buy an entrance only ticket for £4. Many thanks to everybody who came to Prestwold Hall. It was a planting. Also available will be Tickets from the Britannia Hotel your local honey - from beehives in and Pure Aesthetics in Wheeler wonderful evening and started in the spirit of Robbie Burns with a Mapperley Park. Gate, or telephone 0115 926 5694 piper welcoming the guests. Many thanks to the staff at Prestwold For the first time in the city or 0115 962 3168 and your tickets Hall especially Henry Weldon and his team. Also thanks to Stuart centre, Mainly for Ladies ‘October will be sent to you. Thexton Jewellery, The Queens Head and Jane Barton for their wonderful raffle prizes. Independent day school for girls aged 3-16 Open Days Thu 11th Oct 2007 9.30am and 2.15pm Fri 25th Jan 2008 9.30am and 2.15pm call us on 0115 958 0596 or email [email protected] Elm Avenue, Nottingham NG3 4GF www.hollygirt.co.uk

September 2007 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS 9 “FHP city living currently have over 35 properties available within the Mapperley Park area of Nottingham. These range from a one bedroom apartment at £105,000 to a detached family home selling at offers over £1.5million.

With summer here, it is expected that the market should be slowing down but it seems that people are still looking for that perfect pad with over 10 of our properties in the area currently sold subject to contract it seems the summer slow down is like the summer weather, yet to arrive!

So if your looking for that ideal home or wish to sell a property in the Mapperley park area call either Steve Parker or myself on 0115 8411155 to discuss your requirements. Neil Sutcliffe Assistant Branch Manager ฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀

Loueva House, 38 Mapperley Hall Drive, Mapperley 1 The Oaks, 20 Arlington Drive, Nottingham 101 Cyprus Road, Mapperley Park, Nottingham Park, Nottingham An opportunity to aquire a substantial A substantial period residence dating back to 1914, comprising An opportunity to acquire a 3 bedroom detached property detached residence within the Mapperley Park conservation of 4 bedrooms, en-suite to master beds, 2 further bathrooms, within the Mapperley Park conservation area. The property area. Currently under construction 38 Mapperley Hall Drive breakfast kitchen, dining room, living room, library/office and briefly comprises of 3 bedrooms, bathroom, down stairs is being built to the highest standards in line with previous conservatory to the garden. The property also benefits from a WC, living room, dining room and breakfast kitchen. Also developments built by Alchemy within the area. gated driveway leading to the garage with electric door, gardens benefits from a garage and gardens to the front and rear. Price £595,000 For Sale Price £475,000 For Sale Price £450,000 For Sale

28 Mapperley Hall Drive, Mapperley Park, Nottingham 50a Redcliffe Road, Mapperley Park, Nottingham Lanora Villas, 7 Shirley Road, Mappelery Park, An opportunity to aquire a substantial detached residence A newly built town house, consists of; 3 bedrooms (2 with Nottingham An opportunity to acquire a 5 bedroom, 3 storey, Victorian residence within the Mapperley Park within the Mapperley Park conservation area. Currently under en suites), separate shower room, semi open plan living room/dining kitchen, storage room to the ground floor ideal conservation area. The property benefits from off street construction 38 Mapperley Hall Drive is being built to the parking & a substantial rear garden. Needless to say, an early highest standards in line with previous developments built by for office /further conversion.Car port & decked terrace to inspection in essential. Alchemy within the area. the rear.Finished to high standard-viewing recommended.

Price £399,995 ForFor Sale Sale Price £395,000 For Sale Price £375,000 For Sale

104 Tavistock Drive, Mapperley Park, Nottingham 1 Winfield Heights, Lucknow Avenue, Mapperley 1, 44 Magdala Road, Mapperley Park, Notrtingham An opportunity to acquire a four bedroom detached house Park, Nottingham A two bedroom apartment within this A 2 bedroom duplex apartment within this period conversion. within the Mapperley Park conservation area. The property secure development. The property briefly comprises of 2 Briefly consists of 2 double bedrooms, en suite facility to the benefits from various period features and would suit a double bedrooms with an en-suite to the master bedroom, master bedroom, separate bathroom, open plan living area professional couple or family. There is also a garage bathroom and an open plan living/dining/kitchen. and kitchen. Access is via a private entrance at the front, also attached to the property. Viewing highly recommended. Garage and car port as well as a private rear garden. benefiting from a garage and a private terrace. Price £349,995 For sale Price £249,995 For Sale Price £219,995 For Sale

5 Vicaime Court, Lucknow Road, Mapperley Park, Apartment 38E, Magdala Road, Nottingham 3k Magdala Road, Mapperley Park, Nottingham Nottingham A 2 bedroom apartment on the top floor of this An opportunity to acquire a two bedroom apartment within An opportunity to acquire a 1 bedroom apartment on the period conversion. Briefly consists of 2 bedrooms with an en suite the Mapperley Park conservation area. The property benefits top floor of this period conversion. The property briefly off the master bedroom, separate bathroom, living room with from secure parking and is available with no upward chain. comprises of one bedroom, living room open plan onto balcony and breakfast kitchen. Garage and communal gardens, kitchen and a bathroom. The apartment also benefits from needless to say viewing is a must. one gated parking space and is available immediately.

Price £159,950 For Sale Offers in excess of £139,995 For sale Price £105,000 For Sale

#!,, 0115 841 1155 #,)#+ www.fhpcityliving.co.uk Number One, Weekday Cross , The , Nottingham Mansfield Road, Redcliffe Road, Mapperley Road and Elms Bank once bounded ... The Very Local PATCHITT’S PARK History By Christine Drew, Paul Watts that traffic between the town and bought up all the plots of land in and Megan Zadik of the Very brickworks on Mapperley Hills the area bounded by Mapperley, Group Local History Group had to go via Mansfield Road (then Mansfield and Redcliffe Roads and We are a very mixed, informal called the Road to the North) and up Elm Bank. He built Forest House as group of enthusiastic amateur MOST of us are fascinated by Red Lane (now Redcliffe Road) cut his family home and the area became the history of our area. We already historians. through the red clay. The medieval known locally as “Patchitt’s Park”. In Our current interests know a lot about the northern side village of Whiston (white stones), 1890, when Patchitt died without range from the geology and of the Conservation Area (Redcliffe located between Nottingham and heir, the estate was sold to (later Sir) Road to Private Road) from Ken Mapperley, is thought to have died Thomas Birkin (lace manufacturer) the medieval history of the Brand’s booklet “ An Introduction out in on of the regular occurrences who donated Forest House in 1899 area, Edwin Patchitt and the To Mapperley Park” and from his of plague. to be used by Nottingham Children’s subsequent development of his articles in this newsletter. A group of Prior to the 1845 Nottingham Hospital. When our group visited estate, former residents in the local residents are now researching Enclosure Act, little building was last year we were pleased to observe area (including famous local the southern part of the area, roughly allowed on the open fields around that Thomas Birkin’s wish that the people such as Professor Frank bounded by Redcliffe, Mansfield and the old overcrowded town. The original splendid house should not Granger and Watson Fothergill) Mapperley Roads and Elm Bank. Do difficult task of implementing the be altered has been largely respected. to the history of individual you know why this area was once Enclosure Act involved setting out In the 1920s the ward blocks were called Patchitt’s Park? houses and families. new roads (including Mapperley added with generous funding from We meet informally in the Prior to the extension of and Woodborough Roads) as well as John Dane Player, who, until his evening in members’ homes, Nottingham Borough in 1877, awarding plots of land to individuals, death in 1950, lived nearby at Redcliffe Road was the northern including compensating those who Fernleigh on Woodborough Road usually alternate months, to boundary of the borough, with the lost their previous grazing rights on (now the Nottinghamshire Hospice). share our discoveries or ideas fields of Basford parish beyond. the common fields. This complex, After the Children’s Hospital moved for further investigations. Until the mid nineteenth century, controversial work was driven by out in 1974, Forest House was used If you would like to join the route up Mapperley Hills Road the four, government-appointed, as the headquarters of the former us, contact Megan on email: (now Woodborough Road) was Enclosure Commissioners, led by Nottingham Health Authority and it [email protected] little more than a track beyond the their Secretary, Edwin Patchitt. is now the Jamia Al-Hudaa boarding tel. 847 8691. end of Cranmer Street and so steep Shortly after enclosure, Patchitt school for Muslim girls.

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September 2007 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS 11 St Augustine’s Woodborough Road and its architect By Ian Wells After the first world war he received a number of commissions ONE of the few old buildings on for Catholic churches, initially Woodborough Road as you go for the diocese of Nottingham. down the hill from Woodborough He produced simple churches for is the fortress-like Catholic church Belper and Long Eaton and a priest’s of St Augustine of England. “Looks house and temporary church at incomplete”, we are told in The Swadlincote; then came the more Buildings of England and so it is. ambitious St George’s, Derby. In Dating essentially from 1923, 1920 he laid plans for the first of his it is the work of a south London domed Romanesque churches, St architect, John Sidney Brocklesby Augustine’s Nottingham; the facade (1879-1955). At the age of five and roof were never completed Brocklesby moved with his family since Brocklesby managed to to Merton, south of Wimbledon; double the estimated price of his here he lived on the fringes of building and was dismissed; at Merton Park, a garden suburb this time he also designed a chapel created by John Innes, and the impressive table-tomb in Merton His interest in churches for the convent on Mapperley daily work of building that he saw churchyard. He proceeded to continued. Locally he carried out Road (later Marlborough Hall of there stimulated in him the desire design many houses for the estate restorations including Darley Dale Nottingham Trent University). to become an architect. A further and surrounding areas in a variety and Rolleston (Notts), while in There followed two similar stimulus was the local church, of Arts and Crafts styles but at the 1911 he designed his only Anglican churches in Stoke-on-Trent, one of an ancient foundation then same time made many contacts up church, St Andrew’s at Langley stone and the other of brick. Out undergoing restoration. and down the country. He married Mill, a rugged piece of Arts and of the same stable is St Oswald When Brocklesby qualified he the daughter of a Nottingham turf Crafts Gothic which would clearly and St Edmund Arrowsmith at worked first for London County accountant in 1905, spending his like to be Romanesque, a style he Ashton-in-Makerfield. This so Council, then set up in practice honeymoon in Sheringham where would use so well in later years. much impressed the Archbishop of with two colleagues and became he cashed in on the demand for Such indeed was the extent of his Liverpool that Brocklesby nearly architect to the Merton Park Estate holiday cottages; indeed some of practice that he was able to move got the commission for a cathedral Company. John Innes died in 1904, his Merton Park houses were sold into an imposing residence, Long in that diocese. He was also and Brockelsby’s firstcommission with a Sheringham chalet as part of Lodge, just along the road from the was in fact to design his tomb, an the package. semi where he had been brought up. continued page 13 PRACTICAL ANTIQUES Dining tables - sets of chairs - wardrobes - bookcases chests of drawers - upholstered furniture etc.

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12 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS September 2007 During the war Brocklesby Romanesque or Byzantine, following subsequent work at Tunstall and (continued) St Augustine’s worked for the Government on the influence of Westminster Ashton in Makerfield. It is the evidently a serious contender for the reinforced concrete buildings. cathedral; he also knew the Ashton church which has recently new cathedral at Guildford. Afterwards he moved with his new cathedral of St-Front at Perigueux, received very favourable coverage However all was not well on family to Cattistock, Dorset, where which with its massing of domes in two books, the new Buildings the domestic front. Brocklesby fell he planned the layout of a holiday was to prove a profound influence of England volume for Lancashire: in love and left his family, settling camp and restored the parish church (at St Augustine’s these domes are Liverpool and the South-West, for some time in Cyprus and then tower which had been destroyed by of concrete). As we have seen, the and the well-received account of spending summers at Weybourne fire during the war; friendly fire, one two towers at St Augustine’s, one Catholic church building A Glimpse Mill, Norfolk, which he had must add, from a fire-watcher who square and one circular, were never Of Heaven. restored. His estranged wife and fell asleep and dropped his cigarette, completed. The whole effect of the family stayed in Long Lodge till with predictable consequences. facade would have received a strong Do go and see Tunstall and 1938; eventually it was occupied by Brocklesby died at Cattistock in vertical emphasis with these two Ashton for what might have been, Merton Park Film Studios whose June 1955 and lies buried near the towers, possibly a pointed gable but go into St Augustine’s and enjoy series Scotland Yard, The Mysteries church tower. and certainly a great retaining arch, its simple but spacious interior with of Edgar Wallace and Scales of Justice the beginnings of which can be its eighteenth-century organ and its used to make regular appearances A well travelled man, Brocklesby seen flanking the west door; these expert stone-carving by Brocklesby’s on Channel 4. well knew the Catholic fashion for features can be seen in Brocklesby’s clerk of works Percy Howe. Protecting the environment on your doorstep www.rhs.org.uk/learning/research/gardeningmatters/documents/FrontGardens.pdf by Mark Cox If you are struggling for inspiration in your front garden, I highly recommend the Royal Horticultural Society’s publication from its OUR recent Conservation Area Appraisal stressed, quite rightly, the ‘Gardening Matters’ series entitled Front Gardens. Although now out value of our ‘Arcadian setting’, that is, the leafy and picturesque idyll of print, it is still viewable at the website above. which we have inherited from the creators of Mapperley Park and In this pamphlet, the RHS explains how laying hard surfaces Alexandra Park. contributes to flooding and increases local temperatures. They The loss of flora from front gardens, often in favour of low suggest how to create ‘greener’ off-street parking and low maintenance maintenance frontages or hard standing for cars, is therefore of front gardens, using plants that will thrive in the most inhospitable great concern to many residents. And, in these days of climate of places. It’s all very informative and easily-digested, with plenty of change, threatened fauna and increased water run-off, it’s not just illustrations. the aesthetes, keen gardeners and Bulwell stone wall fans who are If you don’t have access to the internet, write to me c/o the editorial worried. team and I’ll organise a photocopy for you. R.N.W. RESTORATION Ltd Are your Trees Specialists in all aspects of or Hedges outgrowing building restoration work your garden? ● Stone repairs & ● In situ moulding repointing ● Brick copying services Urban Tree Care ● Brick repairs & ● Capitals & finials Matthew Adams repointing reconsitituted Tel: 0115 841 8614 ● Stone & brick cleaning ● Concrete repairs Mobile: 07966 691867 www.urbantreecare.co.uk Tree Pruning, Removal of Dangerous Trees, Tree Stump Removal, Site Clearance, Tree Planting, Council Applications Arranged, Hedge Cutting, All waste recycled, Free quotes and advice given 11 Regent Street | New Basford | Nottingham NG7 7BJ

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September 2007 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS 13 Letters to the Editor hopefully a happy medium can be Fortunately, we do not live in a Planning and development in reached. Let there be no confusion, monolithic society and are not the planners are in control. governed by an individual - variety Mapperley Park The allegations of dwellings being and diversity are the keys. A stunning In response to the article ‘Concern for increases, naturally demand rises. built much larger than granted are piece of art to one individual may be the future of Mapperley Park’ in the Demand for housing is at an all complete nonsense - most certainly as displeasing to the next. Planners, last issue. time high from starter homes to from my company’s point of view architects and designers are all I am a property developer in the luxury homes. regarding construction. If this different in their approach and it Midlands. I too live in Mapperley I have a number of projects in the were to occur, the council would is widely understood that there will Park - my mother bought a area, as well as projects elsewhere, send in enforcement officers and always be objections to change or house on Arlington Drive when and I would to like to offer the insist on immediate rectification. development. My intention is not I was a small boy, and ever since opportunity to the concerned to These rumours have no substance to provoke resistance, but to provide I have loved the area. Effectively, get in contact and I will walk them whatsoever. Believe me, the council is housing at the top end of the market Mapperley Park is a countryside round any of my sites and discuss no pushover,I think that suggestions that is suited to today’s climate and retreat only five minutes from the my intentions. I think my homes that the planners, developers demand for just that little bit extra. city - picturesque, comfortable and are amongst the best available, and architects do not know what I know a number of couples, older a most pleasing place to live. I have both visually and internally. I have they are doing are unwarranted. than myself within Mapperley lived here for several years in more been advised by more than one These people are professionals and Park, most of whom have been than one home. organisation to submit a number although they may not grant exactly very supportive and interested in Unfortunately, the article from of my homes for both the local and what the resident would like to see, what I am doing. I am sure this will the last newsletter was unnamed so national house building awards. Of each individual project is discussed continue with the vast majority. I cannot write a response personally. course, it will not be everybody’s and dissected thoroughly - I know, However, I think I speak for many cup of tea but remember the saying, I have sat in dozens of meetings Guy Phoenix. developers working in Mapperley ‘He who tries to please everyone...’ Park and Nottinghamshire. (pleases nobody - ed) Who Lived in Nineteenth Residents’ concern for the area in The paragraph that prompted which they live is typical nationwide, me to write was the mention of the Century Mapperley? not just locally. Nottinghamshire planners’ lack of Today’s climate is different from power, or reluctance to take action WAS your family here a hundred in building up a fuller picture of that of many years ago. The housing against developers. I have a constant years ago? Do you know the history the community. Who were the market has changed, so too the battle with the planners over of your family or your house? Do people who moved here? Where did economy and the way in which we design and am regularly refused. If you have any photographs of your they come from and why? What live. The 21st century offers new they don’t like it, it won’t be built, house or family before the First determined the type of housing challenges and as the population discussions will take place and World War? and the lifestyle in different parts of I am studying local history Mapperley? Where did people work, at Nottingham University and worship, go to school and spend just starting on my dissertation, their leisure time? What did they investigating the first wave of people look like? What was home, family who moved into the Mapperley and community life really like? area in the nineteenth century. I would be very interested to hear My area of study stretches from from anyone who has information Mapperley Road in the south, about, or photographs of, houses, includes Alexandra Park to the east people and community life in and Private Road to the west, and nineteenth century Mapperley that extends up Woodborough Road to they would be willing to share with Woodthorpe Drive and the early me. Now is the time to spring- houses in the Porchester Gardens clean the attic and find that old area to the north. photograph of great grandma! I will be using documentary sources to establish when houses Christine Drew. were built and who is recorded as 12 Woodland Drive, NG3 5EX. living here but I would also welcome Tel: 0115 - 9245582. the help of other Mapperley residents Email: [email protected]

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14 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS September 2007 IN July J Sainsbury opened a new By 1990, 73% of households mini-market on Woodborough owned a car and 95% owned a Road, at the corner with Ransom The history behind refrigerator; local, daily, shopping Road, opposite St Jude’s Church. had become a thing of the past and Readers may be interested in our new Sainsburys nearly all the 299 Sainsbury’s stores the history of the site and of the (and their competitors) were out-of- company. town with petrol stations and huge By Christine Drew car parks. However, continuing social changes (including the THE SITE growth in single person households, The area to the east of Mapperley popularity of inner-city living, Hills Road (now Woodborough round the clock opening, fast-living Road) was originally forested and and the demand for instant food to belonged to the Crown. In 1610 eat on the hoof) have stimulated a James I granted the land, known as C21st surge of local convenience the Far and Near Coppices, to the stores, of which our new Sainsbury’s Borough of Nottingham. During mini-market is one. the C17th and C18th parts of the area continued to be leased “for herbage and pasture”, including a THE NEW SHOP lease in 1742 of “a piece of waste” ABOVE The new store is open from 7am to of 6.5 acres to Thomas Gadsby, Photograph of the site taken 11pm daily. It only stocks a small range of the products available in the overseer of the poor, to provide in the 1950’s when Coppice milk for the workhouse for St larger Sainsbury’s stores (about Nicholas and St Peter’s parishes in Lodge was incorporated into 14,000). The cash-point is a useful Nottingham. Coppice Garage addition to local facilities. Access to Coppice Road (later Ransom the small split-level car park is not Road) was cut through the area in LEFT very clear from the main road and 1837 as a work-creation scheme, Entrance to the new may prove an additional hazard at funded by public subscription, minimarket an already dangerous intersection. for unemployed Nottingham men It is too early to judge whether supporting families. (The name was this new development will help to in Kentish Town in 1873 and by Cambridge and the first Sainsbury’s changed to Ransom Road in the regenerate or be the final death knell 1900 they had 48 stores selling 130 Homebase Centre followed in 1930s after a dispute with Arnold for the remaining retailers along products, with their headquarters, Croydon, in 1981. In 1987 the firm Borough who insisted they had prior the Woodborough Road service depot and factory established in acquired the Shaw’s Supermarkets claim on the Coppice Road name). area, which has struggled since the Blackfriars in 1890. In 1920 grocery chain in the US and in 1994 their Originally the road was gated with brickworks closed in 1960. departments were introduced. Older first French store opened in Calais. a lodge at the top, on the corner readers will remember the long, where Sainsbury’s now sits. narrow, counter-service shops with In the early C20th Coppice decorative mosaic floors, wall tiles Lodge was incorporated into and mahogany fittings, the last of AVAILABLE FOR HIRE! Coppice Garage but the lodge was which in Peckham closed in 1982. demolished around 1960 when the In 1936 J Sainsbury Ltd garage was extended to include car St Andrew’s Church acquired the Thoroughgood chain sales. In the late C20th the garage and established a foothold in the was demolished and replaced by a Community Hall Midlands. By 1950 they had 224 Proton car salesroom; the site was stores selling 550 products and that then boarded-up for a long period year the 1882 Croydon branch was before the present development. the first to be converted to self- service. THE COMPANY Sainsbury’s was family-owned In 1869 John James and Mary Ann until its public flotation in 1973. By Sainsbury opened their first shop, 1970, 50% of households owned a a small dairy, at 173 Drury Lane, car; in 1974 the first edge-of-town London. The second shop opened store and petrol station opened in

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September 2007 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS 15 A great place to be young Playgoers invite new members bottom of the road and in summer there Nottingham Playgoers is a group for anyone was the Open Air Lido for swimming. Both who enjoys live theatre. We study play texts Gwyneth Verdon-Roe (née gone now, I believe. Or we would puff up the before attending local productions, then Rogers) on her childhood in hill on our bikes to Mapperley Plains, with discuss the performances and share our views. Mapperley Park very little traffic and you were quickly in the We’re a very friendly group - so if you have country. We would play tennis at the club on an interest in theatre, come and join us for the corner of Carisbrooke Drive. Nottingham the Autumn. We meet on Tuesday evenings from 7pm - 9pm, beginning on 25th I LIVED in Mapperley Park from 1925 until was a great place to be young. September, at the New Mechanics, North I was married in 1949 - apart from the years Sherwood Street. that I was in the WRNS, and after the war The War For more information contact Sue Cullen, During the war there was an ARP post, a working in London and Paris. 0115 8478423 email: suecullen@ntlworld. cabin, with an old man on duty waiting com or Susan Close, 01332 873090 email for a bomb to drop. My brother and I were Ebers Road [email protected] or visit our alone in the house when there was a big My earliest memories are of Ebers Road. website www.freewebs.com/playgoing bang outside. We thought it was a bomb. A The road was lit by gas which, as a child, I military lorry, soldiers standing in the back, thought was very pretty. The lamp lighter came too fast down the hill and crashed into would come up the road with his long rod a tree on the bend. There were bodies lying all in the evenings, stopping at every lamp over the road. The ARP man said he couldn’t post to light the lamps, as if by magic. The help because it wasn’t a bomb! My brother milkman came in his cart drawn by his horse, couldn’t take the sight of blood so was sent to the rag and bone man came by occasionally, phone for help, and I did what I could. No calling out ‘Rags and Bones’ in a loud voice. one else was around. Six soldiers were killed Sometimes there was a muffin man with his and many injured. Not a word of the accident bell. On Sunday morning the Salvation Army appeared in the newspaper, but I received a with its band would sing hymns outside, nice letter of thanks from the police and the much to the annoyance of my father who army sent me their regimental brooch. I was Photo by Lesley Brown wanted to sleep. fifteen years old and I was thrilled. I first went to school in a house at the One night a bomb did drop at the top Free Spring bulbs top of Magdala Road. Run by Miss Puddle, of Mapperley Hall Drive, which made my a stern lady dressed in black with a ribbon EARLIER this year daffodils bloomed mother, who was knitting, drop her stitches. around her throat. We learnt reading, writing around the base of many of our street trees. Fortunately no one was killed but there was and arithmetic, and sang songs in French Our thanks for this welcome sign of Spring a big crater. We often found shrapnel in the about Charlemagne. go to all those residents who gave up their Park but I don’t remember any other bombs. My grandparents lived at the bottom of free time to plant thousands of bulbs last Mapperley Park was a cosy, friendly place Magdala Road, so I would walk down to year. The bulbs came from Nottingham to live because you knew so very many of the them from school, running very fast past the City Council who give away a staggering families. It is a nostalgic pleasure to read your house called ‘Oakhurst’ which my brothers one million bulbs every year. Please look out magazine. for the Council’s advertisements in the local said was haunted. Nottingham town has changed enormously press and in their Arrow magazine. It would from what I read in the newspapers, but apart be very helpful if individual residents could Mapperley Hall Drive from many of the big houses being converted also get some of the bulbs to plant round Later we moved to Mapperley Hall Drive into flats, Mapperley Park sounds much the their nearest tree or anywhere else suitable. where my parents lived until my father same and as green and tree lined thanks to the Let’s see if we can make Mapperley Park even retired. The Curzon cinema was at the efforts of today’s residents. more green.

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