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©James Haynes
... across the Lace Market towards Castle Rock. St. Mary's Church rises to the right.
©Mick Garratt
Typical three-storey terraced houses built in the years after Sneinton became part of the Borough of Nottingham in 1877. Houses like this can be found all over the city in the inner suburbs which mushroomed in the last quarter of the 19th century.
©John Sutton
These steps connect Sneinton Hermitage (behind the camera) and Lees Hill Street. The blue-brick retaining wall on the left was part of the large London & North Western Railway Manvers Street goods yard, which was built into the side of the hill and approached by an embankment and a substantial four-track bridge over Sneinton Hermitage. The LNWR gained access to Nottingham through the alliance with the Great Northern which led to the building of the GN&LNW Joint Line through the Vale of Belvoir to Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough and Northampton. The LNWR goods warehouse at Manvers Street was badly damaged by the Luftwaffe in Nottingham's biggest air raids in May 1941. The goods yard site is now occupied by houses of Newark Crescent.
©John Sutton
These steps connect Lees Hill Street (up the hill) and Sneinton Hermitage. The blue-brick retaining wall on the right was part of the large London & North Western Railway goods yard. A bridge carrying four tracks crossed Sneinton Hermitage straight ahead, but there is now no trace of it on the south side of the road, or of the embankment which carried the LNWR goods branch to Trent Lane Junction. The land has been levelled; the yellow-brick houses are on Marham Close, a development built partly where the LNWR lines were and partly (to the right) where the Great Northern coal yard and elevated line to Victoria Station via Weekday Cross once were.
©John Sutton
The substantial blue-brick abutment on the left supported the four-track bridge which carried the London & North Western Railway goods branch from Trent Lane Junction to the Manvers Street goods yard, which was built into the side of the hill to the left. The LNWR gained access to Nottingham through the alliance with the Great Northern which led to the building of the GN&LNW Joint Line through the Vale of Belvoir to Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough and Northampton. The LNWR goods warehouse at Manvers Street was badly damaged by the Luftwaffe in Nottingham's biggest air raids in May 1941. The goods yard site is now occupied by houses of Newark Crescent and trees grow where wagons were shunted. Trams and later trolleybuses once ran along Sneinton Hermitage to the Colwick Road terminus.
©John Sutton
Looking through to Lees Hill Street. The churchyard has been dedicated as a meadow grassland site to help to attract wildlife to this inner city space.
©Alan Murray-Rust
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Dist:0.1km<br/>This massive Bulwell stone retaining wall supported the London & North Western Railway Manvers Street goods yard, which was built into the hillside above. The LNWR gained access to Nottingham through the alliance with the Great Northern which led to the building of the GN&LNW Joint Line through the Vale of Belvoir to Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough and Northampton. The LNWR goods warehouse at Manvers Street was badly damaged by the Luftwaffe in Nottingham's biggest air raids in May 1941. The goods yard site is now occupied by houses of Newark Crescent and trees grow where wagons were shunted http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/318446 . Trams and later trolleybuses once ran along Sneinton Hermitage to the Colwick Road terminus, and the area to the left of this shot was shadowed by the elevated GNR line from Trent Lane Junction to Nottingham Victoria via Weekday Cross - of which no trace remains, the land having been levelled and new roads, including City Link, built.
©John Sutton
Dist:0.1km<br/>This street, one of many dating from the expansion of the area after Sneinton became part of the Borough of Nottingham in 1877, is seen from the corner of Sneinton Dale.
©John Sutton
Dist:0.1km<br/>The current station is on Sneinton Dale. The borough coat of arms is on the gable (this building was built before Nottingham became a city in 1897).
©John Sutton
Dist:0.1km<br/>Formerly supporting a large railway goods yard, now developed for housing.
©Alan Murray-Rust
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