Mapperley Park Residents’ Association Newsletter • mapperleypark.org Vol 2 • Issue 03 By residents for residents November 2017 PAGE 9 PAGE 16 ALSO INSIDE... Christmas Drinks Sheku Introducing PAGE 4 Kanneh-Mason Pamela Lewis Kids Corner PAGE 17 Sheku has had a rollercoaster Mapperley Park poet, former chair of year since the last Mapperley Park the D.H. Lawrence Society and member Sports Desk newsletter article. of the Nottingham Poetry Society. By residents for residents PAGE 22 01 The MPRA Committee - Stunning Interiors... Serving the residents of Mapperley Park for 40 years. Plumy by Editors’ Letter Another successful issue of Thanks to everybody who has supplied the MPN has resulted, along articles for this edition and thanks to our MPN Cover with your subscriptions, in advertisers who make this publication improving the funding of possible. your residents' association. Competition Manor Skips are our latest addition who This benefits not just the members have donated a little extra to help with Are you a keen amateur but every resident in Mapperley Park. the drinks at our members’ Christmas photographer? Do you love Subscriptions are improving for the party. We hope to see you there at 7pm, Mapperley Park? Mapperley Park Residents’ Association Wednesday 6th December at Magdala but we still need more to join. The benefits Tennis Club, if you aren’t a member you’ll Would you like to see your are great, the privilege card offers many be able to join on the evening. photo and credits on the discounts and your £5 annual fee can be front cover of the Mapperley offset and more by using it just once. Lastly, we hope to see you at our AGM, Park News? Magdala Tennis Club, Wednesday 25th Our summer party was a huge success April 2018 at 7pm. We would love to see your photos with the Lace Market Theatre’s “best of Mapperley Park so please get bits” of A Midsummer Night’s Dream Please look out for any elderly or snapping! and scenes from Happy Jack. Over 130 vulnerable neighbours this winter, people attended on a beautiful summer Merry Christmas and wishing you Enter our bi-annual photography afternoon. Thanks to Siobhan Hargreaves a prosperous and happy 2018. competition and 1 lucky reader will for organising this and to the Lace Market Theatre for a great fun and inspiring show. win a £20 Amazon voucher by sending your picture, which must be at least 1Mb in size, along with a brief description, your name, address, Wed 25 April 2018 • 19.00+ the date and location of the photo to [email protected] by Mapperley Park Residents' March 31, 2018. Association AGM Magdala Tennis Club. Open to all residents, please come along to find out more about the community. Please note All images submitted must be the work of the individual submitting them. It is the responsibility of each entrant to ensure that any images they submit have been taken with the permission of the subject and do not Cover Competition Winner infringe the copyright of any third party or any laws. Entrants must warrant that Congratulations to Ellie Kennedy the photograph they are submitting is who entered this great photo of the their own work and that they own the steps that lead to the water tower 151 Huntingdon Street, copyright for it. Copyright in all images Nottingham, NG1 3JR submitted for this competition remains from Mapperley Road to win a £20 with the respective entrants. However, Amazon voucher. Monday to Saturday 9:00am to 5:30pm in consideration of their providing the Sunday 10:00am to 4:00pm Competition, each entrant grants a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual licence FREE CUSTOMER PARKING to Mapperley Park Residents Association to feature any or all of the submitted If you have any stories or photographs you would like to share with us, or any Telephone (0115) 953 6000 images in any of their publications, their ideas or contributions, please contact members of the MPRA directly or email www.hopewells.co.uk websites and/or in any promotional material connected to this competition. [email protected]. Our publication dates are May and December. up to 2 years interest free credit* up to 4 years 9.9% APR* 02 0% APR No Deposit - buy now mapperleypark.org By residents for residents 03 *Terms and conditions apply. Sun, Dec 10 • 15:30+ Mon, Jan 15 - Sat, Jan 20 The MPRA Dates for Carols The Haunting A letter Privilege card your diary... St Andew’s Church. The Lace Market Theatre. standrewsnottm.org.uk Adult £11, Concessions £10. Exclusively for MRPA members lacemarkettheatre.co.uk from the Chair Sat, Dec 2 - Sun, Dec 17 Fri, Dec 22 • 14:30 & 19:30 An update by MPRA Chair, Sue Goode Jack and the Beanstalk It’s A Wonderful Life Wed, Apr 25 • 19:00+ Nottingham Arts Theatre. Family Bonnington Cinema, Arnold. Mapperley Park ticket (multiples of 4) £10.50 each. Adults £5.50, Concessions £4.50. Resident’s Association AGM Autumn and they agreed to do a nottingham-theatre.co.uk bonningtontheatre.co.uk We welcome a new committee The meeting is open to all one-off additional collection just for member, June Greenway who residents, please come along to find Mapperley Park. Sat, Dec 23 • 10:30 & 14:00 joined us in the summer as our Sun, Dec 3 • 12:00 - 16:00 out more about the community. tree expert. June brings valuable The councillors are also working Christmas Magdala Tennis Club. expertise in this key area for Christmas Fayre positively with our committee on an Kidsophonic in Space Mapperley Park. Sherwood Community Centre. exciting project to bring some greenery Albert Hall. Adults £8, Children £5. to the traffic island at the junction Fun for the whole family! Stalls, Thank you to all our paid-up residents Joining the Mapperley Park alberthallnottingham.co.uk of Lucknow Drive and Mapperley Santa’s Grotto, Raffle, Café whose financial contribution helps Residents’ Association costs just Hall Drive. We hope that work will sherwoodcommunitycentre.btck.co.uk the Residents’ Association committee £5 each year. In return, all members be done in the Spring and with the to continue its work on behalf of our receive a Privilege Card, allowing ambition of significantly improving the community. you discounts at various outlets Sun, Dec 3 • 17:30+ Wed, Dec 6• 19.00+ environment and outlook in this area. throughout the City, including... Membership offers excellent value Deck the Halls – Please make sure that you have the Join us for MPRA (£5 per household pa) and includes A Christmas Celebration Christmas social event date in your • A 15% discount off food Christmas Drinks! our twice annual newsletter, excellent William Booth Memorial Hall. Carol diaries. We will be hosting drinks and at Hart’s Restaurant and value social events, access to experts on concert presented by the Rotary Club Magdala Tennis Club, all are welcome. nibbles for paid up members (you can The Park Bar, Hart’s Hotel. planning, traffic and community issues of Nottingham, The Salvation Army mapperleypark.org pay on the day) on Wednesday evening and a privilege card giving exclusive and local schools. 6th December at Magdala tennis club. • 10% off non-sale purchases discounts at selected outlets. at Le Chien et Moi. We have lobbied our councillors on the I look forward to seeing • 10% off transferring your issue of leaf collection challenges in the you there. photos, slides, negatives, cine films or VHS tapes onto CD or DVD at Memories Digital Services A full list of discounts can be found at mapperleypark.org/about-the- association/loyalty-card. Save The Date! Get your own The Mapperley Park Residents’ Privilege card Association Christmas Drinks To join the Residents’ Association, complete the form on page 13 and email it to our committee member for Membership, Mark Cox, at As a thank you for your continued [email protected] membership and to celebrate the festive Where? season, all current Mapperley Park Alternatively, you can set up a Magdala Tennis Club Residents’ Association members are standing order. BACs payments can invited for drinks and nibbles at Magdala When? be sent to sort code 20-63-25, a/c Tennis Club on Wednesday 6th December. Wednesday 6th 10609080, quoting your surname December 2016 and postcode in the reference field. If you aren’t a member you can join on the night. First come, first served! Time? 7:00PM + Your subscription ensures We wish you all a Merry Christmas we have a great community and a happy new year! for the future of our children. Thank you! 04 mapperleypark.org By residents for residents 05 I am not sure whether it was luck, hard won experience or divine intervention which guided the Committee to choose the Friday for our visit but the doom merchants were wrong! I hope you don’t mind but I think at this point we need to hand over to someone who immortalised this area: The park was very large and contained great variety of ground. We gradually ascended for half a mile and then found ourselves at the top of a considerable eminence, where the woods ceased, and the eye was instantly caught by “the house” situated on the opposite side of the valley, into which the road with some abruptness wound. It was a large, handsome, stone building, standing well on rising ground, and By the end of June the Monsoons had somewhat overwhelmed by the variety backed by a ridge of high woody hills; arrived, however the intrepid Garden of cakes placed before them. and in front, a stream of some natural Group members were determined not importance was swelled into greater, but to be rained off.