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The snowfall overnight means that the 1 in 8 slope of the street is an ideal slide. The problem is that it makes it totally impassable for vehicles, and takes longer to thaw.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Looking up Carlton Hill at supposedly rush hour traffic inching up the hill to Nottingham.
©Karen Chantrey Wood
Dist:0.2km north<br/>The cul-de-sac leading to the main road is treacherous after overnight snow.
©Karen Chantrey Wood
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Carlton Hill is a busy thoroughfare into Nottingham. Once the A612, it was redesignated and in recent years has had various traffic calming devices installed. On this morning though, nature had its own calming device...the snow
©Karen Chantrey Wood
Dist:0.2km north<br/>A nice Victorian wall post box sits incongruously alongside the message in the chip-shop window. The full message is We open for Friday tea 5.00 pm.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km north<br/>A contrast in styles - the left hand house would have been built in the same brick as the corner building, but has been faced with reconstituted stone in a distinctly non-local style.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km north<br/>This recreation ground occupies the site of a former brickworks clay pit
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km north<br/>After your [[1145089]], You have to Pitch Close on your [[1145128]]. The names for this development were clearly devised by someone with a sense of humour. The raison d'etre is that the area was formerly a golf driving range.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This is a major local switching station, entirely surrounded by residential properties.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km north<br/>These modern houses follow the form of their predecessors, and for a good reason; this was an estate of post-war pre-fab bungalows. These were of course erected on concrete slab foundations, which proved sufficiently well built to reuse.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km north<br/>A suburban pub which seems to have survived all the repositioning of styles of the last 2 decades. The illuminated speed sign just beyond the pub had only been operational for a couple of days when this view was taken.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This is stage 1. Next you have to [[1145111]] on your [[1145128]]. The names for this development were clearly devised by someone with a sense of humour. The raison d'etre is that the area was formerly a golf driving range.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km north<br/>After your [[1145089]], You have to [[1145111]] on your Green Approach. The names for this development were clearly devised by someone with a sense of humour. The raison d'etre is that the area was formerly a golf driving range.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Housing development on the site of a former brick works. The steep slopes result from the quarrying of the clay.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Most of the through roads in the area have been provided with traffic calming measures like these cushions.
©Alan Murray-Rust

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