August 2024 The Sky at Night On 12th August we posted: Local photographer Steve Komarek managed to capture a few shots of the Perseid Meteor shower last night from his garden in Carlton. This was the best one. Steve used a Canon 6D MkII, 50mm [ … ]
Category: Monthly Blog
Monthly Blog September 2024
September 2024 12th Sept That’s it for the former pub on Oakdale Road. The Tally Ho opened in 1962 changing its name to The Bakersfield in recent years. It has not operated since 2021 and planning permission was sought to demolish it and build on [ … ]
Monthly Blog June 2023
June 2023 Remembering The Tragedy At Sandford Road. For those who are living away from Mapperley, here’s the latest photo of 2 Sandford Road. We’re not sure why the development is delayed, possibly waiting for permission to fell the trees. Here’s the sad reminder of [ … ]
Monthly Blog January 2023
January 2023 January 2023 was, like the weather, a mixed month. Despite a quiet month for businesses and with those that can having taken a holiday somewhere, the Mapperley People Facebook page kept on top of the issues in the area. Car Key Burglars made [ … ]
Monthly Blog August 2022
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
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. [ … ]
Monthly Blog October 2024
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 [ … ]
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. [ … ]