AUGUST 2022 Golfers, Bakers, Podcasters, Tour Guides Despite it being the holiday season and the weather being so good, our Facebook page reached 310k people. Fantastic figures for a community page representing just three postcode areas. It was also a busy month, despite many people [ … ]
Monthly Blog September 2022
September 2022 Pheasants and Funerals September 2022 was a month of mixed emotions in Mapperley. It started with celebrating our new community moving into at Alexandra Place on Mapperley Plains. https://www.mapperleypeople.co.uk/help-to-buy-success-for-… We were then treated to some photographs from a Mapperley resident who discovered a [ … ]
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 March 2022
War In Ukraine And Farewell To Peter Bowles And Elias ‘Jack’ Nuqul The Russian invasion of Ukraine dominated things. There were a number of collections and appeals that sprung in to action, as the horrors of war in Europe became all too clear. Haywood Road [ … ]
Monthly Blog October 2024
October 2024 was to some extent a quiet month, apart from the Northern Lights coming to Mapperley and Halloween, which seems to get more popular each year. Memories of The Punch Bowl On 9th October we published an article about the history of The Punch Bowl [ … ]
Monthly Blog November 2024
November 2024 End Of An Era On the 1st November posted that Tung Kong – Valley Road take-away and chip shop was to close its doors for the last time on Saturday 2nd November, after an impressive 40 years serving the people of Carlton Valley. [ … ]
Monthly Blog February 2025
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 [ … ]
Monthly Blog March 2025
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 [ … ]
Monthly Blog May 2025
May 2025 On 1st May we posted: My partner and I have been debating what ‘Terri’s’ used to be at the old Fleurtations premises (we aren’t from the area). I thought maybe a hardware store and he thought a convenience store. Does anyone remember? The [ … ]
Monthly Blog April 2025
April 2025 April 2025 and Mapperley seems to be getting ready for the summer. As usual, we welcomed new businesses, as well as saying farewell to established ones. Farewell To Fleurtations 8th April We posted that Fleurtations the florist and gift shop on Westdale Lane [ … ]