Many of you will know of the name Hateley. Not only are there three generations who have played football at the highest level, they also have strong links to the area. Tony Hateley is an iconic name for Notts County fans. He played for them [ … ]
The Catfoot Lane Tragedy of 1944
Nottinghamshire is home to more than 20 memorials dedicated to aircrew who died during the Second World War. The details of these are found on various publications and websites. Memorials such as those in Annesley, Blyth, Calverton, Cotgrave, Farnsfield, Gonalston, Halam, and Hoveringham. One incident [ … ]
Mapperley’s Litter Pick
Calling all residents and organisations. Why not organise your own Litter Pick and help to keep our area litter free. The #MapperleyLitterPick is now up and running and we can assist you in arranging future events. Thanks to the support of private individuals, HSL Direct, [ … ]
Christmas Offer from Mapperley Publisher
Mapperley publisher Porchester Press is offering free delivery on orders of suspense thriller ‘The Showman’. Set in Nottingham during two week in 1978, the short introduction of novel reads: England 1978.A number of deaths occur. All are sudden and bizarre, but none are treated as [ … ]
Memories Of The Metropole
Located on Mansfield Road in the Sherwood district of Nottingham, the Metropole cinema was a wonderful art-deco gem. Here it is in the early 1970s, not long before it closed. Note the Esso petrol station on the corner of Elmswood Gardens, and ‘The Candy Shop’ [ … ]
Local Walks – Ploughman Wood
Whenever the sun is out in Mapperley it seems everyone gets out for a stroll. It took us 3 hours to walk from Mapperley Top along to Dorket Head, down through Woodborough and back to Lambley via the historic Ploughman Wood where we tookthis panoramic [ … ]
Mapperley Brickyards – The Final Years
This extract is from the book Clay Stealers to St Pancras Station – A History of Nottingham’s Brick Makers, by Jeff Sheard. Published in 2012 and not available in a digital format, it is published here with kind permission of the author. Top Yard – [ … ]
JGM Limited – Mapperley Property Developer
Mapperley People always looks to celebrate our area’s successes, and property developers JGM Limited are in that category. A local family business with over 20 years of experience in the property industry. JGM have grown into a progressive, privately-owned developer of homes nationwide, but with [ … ]
Coltsfoot Beer House
For centuries Nottingham people have enjoyed getting out of the town and walking up to Mapperley for the views, and of course some liquid refreshment. In the mid 19th century, there was a small beer house in Mapperley that had an unusual name, Coltsfoot Beer [ … ]
Charles Bell TAYLOR Of Beechwood Hall
Mapperley People likes to recognise the achievements of our residents, and Charles Bell TAYLOR is one that deserves his place in the area’s history. Charles Taylor was a surgeon oculist, the old term for what we now call an ophthalmologist. He lived and died at [ … ]
Johnson’s Pond
Following a discussion on a ‘school memories’ group about the Mapperley Plains Primary School, which moved to its new site about 30 years ago, someone commented that the new building was on a site known as ‘Johnson’s Pond’. We asked whether anyone recalls this and [ … ]
Crosslands Farm – Mapperley Plains
The residential area of Mapperley extended away from the city in phases. New housing developments were mostly built on what was farmland. Some of the original farm names have survived. Middlebeck Farm, Plains Farm and more recently the Chase Farm development. The name Crosslands Farm [ … ]
Pub Quizzes
The question is: Where are our pub quizzes? Can you fill in the gaps? This is a general list and may change, so check with the individual premises. Monday Bread and Bitter Mapperley – Four Bells Woodborough – Mapperley Social Club – Duke of Cambridge [ … ]
Club Balaton Remembered
It is generally accepted that in built up areas, the maximum walking distance to a bus-stop should be 400 metres. Up until the 1990s, the same could be said for our pubs, especially those located within housing estates that were easy walking distance for local [ … ]