Hays Travel Mapperley are our trusted high street travel agents, for fantastic deals on beach holidays, cruises, city breaks and travel money. The shop on Mapperley top has been a travel agency for many years and was part of the UK-wide expansion of Hays Travel [ … ]
Category: People
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 January 2024
Old Postcards It took until 8th January for our first post of interest and it came from a teacher at Carlton Digby School who asked: Does anyone have any old postcards (preferably written with an address and stamp) that I could use for a school [ … ]
Solicitors and Will Writers
Here are the local solicitors recommended as will writers by followers of Mapperley People Crystal Clear Wills and Trusts Curtis Parkinson Rotheras on Mapperley Top Smalleys Solicitors in Arnold Quality Solicitors Yates and Co now based in Burton Joyce
Monthly Blog – October 2025
From Marple Square to the M31 Galaxy Marple Square Remembered Jo Singh sent us some photos taken by her father in the 70s and 80s. These are of the Marple Square flats on Woodborough Road off Cranmer Street. Built with its own neighbourhood shopping centre [ … ]
Monthly Blog June 2024
Mapperley People always enjoys posting items relating to the area’s history. With the Centenary of Woodthorpe Grange Park celebrated last year, we were pleased to be given this 1930 map showing Woodthorpe Grange Park in the early years. The things that stand out are the [ … ]
Monthly Blog November 2023
Relics of Old St Ann’s BBC East Midlands interviewed Mapperley’s modern and accessible farmer after Storm Babet had exposed some landscaping methods from the 1960s. John Jones at Woodborough Park Farm spoke about the floods and the land that was washed away, revealing thousands of [ … ]
Monthly Blog 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 of brickmaking [ … ]
Monthly Blog 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 the historic [ … ]
Monthly Blog December 2022
December 2022 All in all a positive month in the Mapperley community. Lots of support for each other and helping to keep costs down in what are uncertain times. The energy price rises have clearly made people change their behaviour and look to reduce those [ … ]