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 [ … ]
Category: History
A Tribute To Hungerhill
A 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 and those of change, supplemented the gardener’s skill [ … ]
Road Rage in Mapperley – 19th Century Style
Road Rage – 19th Century Style! On the television or in the papers we hear about cases of road rage when one driver has lost their temper with another driver. Is this a symptom of the modern age? According to the local paper in 1850, [ … ]
The Battle of Mapperley Hills
On Tuesday August 23rd 1842, Mapperley experienced an event known as the Battle of Mapperley Hills. Troops were used to break up a peaceful rally by Chartists, the working class movement which emerged in 1836 in London and expanded rapidly across the country. During the [ … ]
A Short History of the Area
Mapperley Plains and its shops mean a lot to the locals. They also mean a lot to the thousands who pass through by car. Some stopping for a visit, others commuting or bypassing the north of the city. Lucky for us and the Mapperley traders [ … ]