The Mapperley area has a long association with the sport of boxing. From the days of bare knuckle prize-fighting though to world champions Jawaid Khaliq, Carl Froch and Leigh Wood. Super middleweight champion Carl Froch MBE is now a broadcaster and commentator with platforms including [ … ]
Search For ‘Celebrity Photograph’ Goes Worldwide
Story about a photograph lost on a Mapperley bus goes viral. The Mapperley People community have a proven track record of reuniting people with their lost property. Pets in particular are often reported lost, and thanks to people sharing these posts many are found or [ … ]
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 a story that, thankfully, most [ … ]
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 is their report. The upshot [ … ]
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 the settled community it [ … ]
Mapperley Hospital Theatre And Chapel
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 theatre and chapel. This Grade [ … ]
WWI Zeppelin Raid – How Many Bombs Hit Mapperley?
In the early hours of Sunday 25th September 1916, a German airship bombed Nottingham city centre. The Zeppelin then passed over Mapperley where it dropped at least one high explosive bomb. A house on Hickling Road was badly damaged. A descendent of the Wilson family [ … ]
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 in 1832 at St Werburgh [ … ]
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 in our area very rare. [ … ]
Mapperley and Brick Making
St Pancras Station celebrated its 150 year history in 2019, and we celebrate the Mapperley Bricks that were used to build it. Mapperley is central to the brick-making heritage of Nottingham Many thanks to Mike Chapman of the British Brick Society for the following information. [ … ]