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Looking east towards Hucknall Road
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Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35163.
©Roger Templeman
Dist:0.1km<br/>Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35162.
©Roger Templeman
Dist:0.2km<br/>It is hard to believe there was once a main line railway here. Camelot Avenue is built on the site of the passenger and goods stations at New Basford. The goods sidings were to the left and the island-platform passenger station straight ahead. The Great Central Railway main line from London Marylebone to Sheffield via Leicester and Nottingham was the last trunk route to be completed (1899) and the first to close (1967). North of Nottingham and in the city much of its route has disappeared - embankments flattened, cuttings filled, viaducts demolished - and it is hard to follow. After passing through the 665-yard Sherwood Rise Tunnel northbound trains entered a deep cutting in the sandstone (behind the camera). The cutting has now been filled in - see [[[2388100]]].
©John Sutton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Residential backwater off Haydn Road.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>Some newer buildings (behind the photographer) have been built on an area that was previously occupied by a larger factory. The Bunter Sandstone behind is soft enough to excavate economically.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>Part of a former textile factory.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>The Thomas Forman printing factory was built in 1926 and closed in 1998. The site, which was large and included a sports ground, has been developed as housing. The streets are named for printers and typefounders, or after things connected with printing and stationery: Caxton Road (ahead), Plantin Road and Jensen Way, Ledger Walk, Parchment Mews and Serif Close. The neo-classical frontage of the factory on Hucknall Road remains, to the left of this viewpoint.
©John Sutton
Dist:0.2km<br/>It is hard to believe that this was once the site of a main line railway. Camelot Avenue is built on the site of the station and goods yard of New Basford station. Famous Nottingham railway photographers such as Gordon Hepburn and Tom Boustead stood approximately where I stood to take this snap to take their pictures of trains bursting out of Sherwood Rise Tunnel on the uphill slog from Nottingham Victoria. The remains of the tunnel are hidden in the trees directly ahead - see [[[2388076]]]. The Great Central Railway main line from London Marylebone to Sheffield via Leicester and Nottingham was the last trunk route to be completed (1899) and the first to close (1967). North of Nottingham and in the city much of its route has disappeared - embankments flattened, cuttings filled, viaducts demolished - and it is hard to follow.
©John Sutton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking south towards the neo-classical frontage of the former Thomas Forman printing works (1926), now the Indian Community Centre Association - http://www.theicca.co.uk/default.htm - and also containing flats and a branch of Tesco Express. The new housing built on the Forman site contrasts with the inter-wars and pre-1914 housing elsewhere in the area - see [[[2390443]]].
©John Sutton
Dist:0.2km<br/>From the same viewpoint as [[1208265]] but looking up the hill, theree is a sudden change in the style of housing to a noticeably more modern type.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35160.
©Roger Templeman
Dist:0.2km<br/>Ordnance Survey 1962 cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35161.
©Roger Templeman
Dist:0.2km<br/>The Great Central Railway main line from London Marylebone to Sheffield via Leicester and Nottingham was the last trunk route to be completed (1899) and the first to close (1967). North of Nottingham much of its route has disappeared - embankments flattened, cuttings filled, viaducts demolished - and it is hard to follow. After passing through the 665-yard Sherwood Rise Tunnel (behind the camera) trains entered a deep cutting in the sandstone south of New Basford station. The cutting has been filled in: the railway track was getting on for twenty feet below the current ground level. The sheer side of the cutting through the Lenton sandstone is clearly shown on the right of the picture. See [[[2388076]]] and [[[2388100]]].
©John Sutton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Now largely converted to small industrial units.
©Alan Murray-Rust

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