The Mapperley area has a long association with boxing. From the days of bare knuckle prizefighting though to world super middleweight champion Carl Froch MBE. Carl’s recent wedding was even featured in Hello Magazine. Behind the glamour of this local [ … ]
Search For ‘Celebrity Photograph’ Goes Worldwide
Story about a lost photograph on a Mapperley bus goes viral. The Mapperley People community have a proven track record in reuniting people with their lost property. Pets in particular are often reported lost by their owners. Thanks to people [ … ]
Heartfelt Story About T-Jays Schooling in Mapperley
We have been made aware of T-Jay’s story and his family’s wish for him to stay at Westdale Junior School. We have asked both Westdale School and Nova Education Trust for a comment, but none has been made. It is [ … ]
Breck Hill Road Junction
Following a petition of 1600 signatures, supported by a local councillor, residents and businesses in Mapperley, Nottinghamshire County Council have now completed the technical assessment on what can be done about the problems for pedestrians crossing Breck Hill Road. Here [ … ]
Photography Student Celebrates the People of Mapperley
Many thanks to photography student Alyssa Tate for creating a project about Mapperley. Alyssa has been getting out and about and meeting the people that make the area what it is. People from established businesses and organisations. People who make [ … ]
Mapperley Hospital Theatre
Mapperley Hospital on Porchester Road was founded in 1876. Set in 125 acres of land, it had its own farm, bakery and butchery. Although much of the hospital has been demolished, some of the old buildings remain, including the old [ … ]
WWI Zeppelin Raid – How Many Bombs Hit Mapperley?
At about 1.00am on Sunday 25th September 1916, having bombed the city centre, a German airship passed over Mapperley where it dropped at least one high explosive bomb. A house on Hickling Road was badly damaged. A descendent of the [ … ]
Charles Bennett – Mapperley’s Founding Father
Driving along Woodborough Road towards Nottingham, just before the Aldi Supermarket, you pass a house on the corner of Bennett Street, with a brick porch around the front door. This is where Charles Bennett lived until his death in 1909. Bennett was born [ … ]
Waxwings Have Arrived
This Waxwing was seen in Sherwood at the Winchester Street car park this morning (21st Jan) at around 11.30. Gill, the photographer using a Canon SX60 bridge camera waited patiently for the sun to come out. Then it happened. Waxwings [ … ]
Mapperley and Brick Making
St Pancras Station celebrates its 150 years, and we celebrate the Mapperley Bricks that were used to build it and the brick making heritage of Nottingham Many thanks to Mike Chapman of the British Brick Society for the following information. [ … ]