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. [ … ]
Category: History
Mapperley Author – Dorothy Whipple
The people behind Nottingham City of Literature keep finding stories about Mapperley connections to famous writers. A few weeks ago it was DH Lawrence and his relationship with a woman who lived on Private Road. Now it is the novelist Dorothy Whipple, who lived in Mapperley [ … ]
Memories of St Anns Allotments and the Circus
The recent article A Tribute to St Anns Allotments brought back some fond childhood memories for Eric Parker. “My father had an allotment, right at the top of the hill. I remember the circus coming to Nottingham, at the Forest Recreation Ground. My dad was a [ … ]
Mapperley Burglar Transported to Australia
On March 27th 1833 a burglar entered the Mapperley home of Mr Shelton. The burglary was discovered by Sarah Hill, a servant in the Shelton household. On entering the kitchen to prepare the breakfast, she found that the kitchen door was open. She had shut [ … ]
The History Of Mapperley Hall
Mapperley Hall on Lucknow Avenue was built in 1792 by the Wright Family. Ichabod Wright was the second generation of a family that were bankers on Long Row Nottingham. He and his wife Harriet had 3 sons and 10 daughters. They therefore needed a large [ … ]
Theatre Artist – The Mystery of Alex Toole
Having spent a good chunk of his life in the theatre business, local historian Bob Massey was doing a bit of research into some local equipment suppliers, when he came across an advert for the sale of stage curtains in the local area dated in [ … ]
A Migration Story – £10 Poms From Nottingham
Migration is a fascinating subject. Why do people pack their bags and move somewhere completely different? Whilst all will say they are seeking a better life. To seek a better life in a new country, there has to be a strong urge to get away [ … ]
Mapperley Plains by Christopher Isherwood
The acclaimed author Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) once wrote about Mapperley Plains, despite having not visited. This was whilst he was at Repton School in Derbyshire in around 1920. Following on from a balloon release at a school event one day, a card for his balloon [ … ]
Majestic Mapperley
Many thanks to Angie for her memories of Mapperley and the Majestic Cinema on Woodborough Road. I was born in 1945 and lived on Kenrick Road, there were very few cars then ,we used to go car spotting on Porchester road. Our vegetables were delivered [ … ]
A Tribute to St Anns Allotments
Thanks to http://www.porchesterpress.co.uk/ for allowing us to use this poetic tribute to the allotments at Hungerhill. The Soil is all the Richer The soil is all the richer, to have formed on Hungerhill Years of cultivation and domestication, with little time to play Industrial winds [ … ]