Tucked away in the loft of a 1930s Mapperley house, next to the eve, roofers found a dusty old woollen overcoat. On closer inspection it was found to date back to the second world war, and issued to a Civil Defence volunteer. Could it have [ … ]
In The Mapperley Footsteps of D.H. Lawrence
In June 2026, James Walker published an article by John Pateman about a walk through Mapperley by a group of academics and members of the D.H. Lawrence Society on his Substack Blog – An Absolute Necessity To Move Mapperley Park The D.H. Lawrence Society, in [ … ]
Monthly Blog – April 2026
April 2026 was a month of reflection Remembering Bodie On 25th April we remembered a popular local figure who died in February. Martin Bolus known to many as Bodie. His family and close friends invited everyone to an evening of music, stories, and togetherness to [ … ]
Mapperley’s Florence Nightingale
Josephine Louise Angois was a volunteer nurse in the 20th century’s bloodiest war, who lived an extraordinary ‘ordinary’ life. With assistance from the Royal College of Nursing Service Scrapbooks, Mapperley can proudly claim this remarkable woman as our own ‘Florence Nightingale. Angois’ father, Paul Angois, was [ … ]
Monthly Blog – March 2026
Roads – v – Footpaths Thanks to a Mapperley resident for sending us this short video that explains the new section of pavement at Mellish RFC. One footpath leads through to Killisick Lane and the Hobbucks Nature Reserve in Arnold. The second footpath runs parallel [ … ]
Mapperley’s Travel Agents
Hays Travel Mapperley are our trusted high street travel agents, for fantastic deals on beach holidays, cruises, city breaks and travel money. The shop on Mapperley top has been a travel agency for many years and was part of the UK-wide expansion of Hays Travel [ … ]
Monthly Blog – February 2026
Here’s what Mapperley people were talking about in February 2026. Topics ranged from Woodthorpe in 1960, car headlights and our neglected brownfield sites. Changing Woodthorpe How about this image from circa 1959, taken from Breck Hill Road (just above Maitland Road) looking over Melbury Road. [ … ]
Monthly Blog February 2022
February 2022 February was eventful for a number of reasons. We have trawled through the posts on Mapperley People’s Facebook Page. The posts reached over 140,000 people and one of them was a BBC news reporter who picked up on the story of our ‘Good [ … ]
Monthly Blog December 2023
A Month Of Wild Weather In the morning of the 3rd of December, we woke to a snow covered Mapperley. Unfortunately the snow was soon replaced by rain and various storms throughout the month brought misery on many of us. The villages of Lambley and [ … ]
Monthly Blog January 2024
Old Postcards It took until 8th January for our first post of interest and it came from a teacher at Carlton Digby School who asked: Does anyone have any old postcards (preferably written with an address and stamp) that I could use for a school [ … ]