Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club has a long and illustrious history going back to the 1830s. We look back over the years and discover three cricketers with links to the Mapperley area. There will certainly be more, so let us know about them. Mike Smedley We [ … ]
Monthly Blog August 2025
Hearth and History White Cottage and Pelham House are two of the oldest properties on Woodthorpe Drive in Nottingham. Woodthorpe Drive was originally known as Scout Lane and was farmland until the late 19th century. Here’s their history, with thanks to @hearthandhistoryshop for researching them. [ … ]
Monthly Blog February 2024
Dragons Den Viewers of the popular television series Dragons Den will have seen Mapperley’s Issac Tambini seeking an investor for his company Pola Ice-Pops which operates in Sherwood. Isaac comes from a generation of Nottingham based Italian ice cream makers, the Tambini and Conti families. [ … ]
Monthly Blog March 2024
Calverton Colliery Remembered A supporter sent this image of Calverton Colliery before sunrise. The photograph was taken in the winter of its closure in 1993. Calverton was the first colliery to be opened by the National Coal Board in 1952. Whilst a housing estate was [ … ]
Monthly Blog June 2024
Mapperley People always enjoys posting items relating to the area’s history. With the Centenary of Woodthorpe Grange Park celebrated last year, we were pleased to be given this 1930 map showing Woodthorpe Grange Park in the early years. The things that stand out are the [ … ]
Monthly Blog November 2023
Relics of Old St Ann’s BBC East Midlands interviewed Mapperley’s modern and accessible farmer after Storm Babet had exposed some landscaping methods from the 1960s. John Jones at Woodborough Park Farm spoke about the floods and the land that was washed away, revealing thousands of [ … ]
Monthly Blog July 2023
Farewell To Langdale Lightweights What happened to Langdale Lightweights? This specialist cycling shop and workshop on Westdale Lane was a well known landmark on Mapperley Top. We knew that the store had closed but were under the impression they were going to move. Emily Green [ … ]
Monthly Blog July 2024
Daffodils and Dirt Readers may be interested to hear that Nottingham born actress Samantha ‘Sam’ Morton has ventured into music and has a new album out. One of the songs is dedicated to our Hungerhill Road in St Anns and another is named Highwood House [ … ]
Monthly Blog February 2025
In February 2025, we remembered our history, said farewell to a popular and well known person on Mapperley Top and looked forward to the future. This is the last brick to be made at Mapperley. On the 2nd May 1969 almost 150 years of brickmaking [ … ]
Monthly Blog March 2025
2nd March we posted: The sun is out in Mapperley and it seems everyone has been 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 stopping at the historic [ … ]