In April 2025, we posted a request for recommendations for someone to supply and install fencing in their garden. Here’s what we were told: KAB Best Fencing – Netherfield – Tel: 08001931717 – Email: enquiries@kabbestfencing.co.uk Inline Fencing Ltd Barnard Fencing Beechdale Fencing Ltd – Nottingham [ … ]
Category: People
Tree Surgeons And Arborists
Tree Surgeons are also referred to as Tree Climbers and Arborists. Tree surgeons work in towns and the countryside, assessing tree health, removing branches, planting new stock and felling unsafe trees. There are several ways to train and operate as a tree surgeon, so qualifications [ … ]
Florence Paton – Our First Woman MP
Here’s the story of Florence Paton, an influential woman and politician whose contribution to women’s health and the teaching of SEN children is recognised at the Garden For The Blind on Carlton Hill. Born Florence Widdowson in 1891 at Somerset, she moved to Wolverhampton where [ … ]
Local Walks – Ploughman Wood
Whenever the sun is out in Mapperley it seems everyone gets 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 via the historic Ploughman Wood where we tookthis panoramic [ … ]
JGM Limited – Mapperley Property Developer
Mapperley People always looks to celebrate our area’s successes, and property developers JGM Limited are in that category. A local family business with over 20 years of experience in the property industry. JGM have grown into a progressive, privately-owned developer of homes nationwide, but with [ … ]
Coltsfoot Beer House
For centuries Nottingham people have enjoyed getting out of the town and walking up to Mapperley for the views, and of course some liquid refreshment. In the mid 19th century, there was a small beer house in Mapperley that had an unusual name, Coltsfoot Beer [ … ]
Club Balaton Remembered
It is generally accepted that in built up areas, the maximum walking distance to a bus-stop should be 400 metres. Up until the 1990s, the same could be said for our pubs, especially those located within housing estates that were easy walking distance for local [ … ]
The Aurora Polaris Comes To Mapperley
Mapperley was treated to the spectacle of the Aurora Polaris over the weekend of 12th October 2024. This was a rare occurrence so far south from the North Pole. The popular term for this phenomenon is the Northern Lights, but what causes them? The shimmering [ … ]
Chimney Sweep
Here’s what you told us when people asked for a recommended and local Chimney Sweep ADL Chimney Sweep – Based in Carlton – Tel 07866236900 – HETAS registered engineer for stove installations. Also chimney sweeping and lining. Daniel Hufton at DJ Sweeps – Tel 07845687755 [ … ]
Mapperley’s Memories Of Freddie Mercury
Mapperley will always be grateful to have been home to Freddie Mercury’s family for over 20 years. Some knew the family, some knew where they lived. Some had heard the rumours and weren’t sure it was true. It was true and we want to share some [ … ]