Looking to convert your garage into some sort of studio or creating a garden room. Maybe a Home gym, a guest room, play room, home office or a cinema room. Here are the businesses that our followers recommended. Sapphire Home Improvements – 0115 882 9288 [ … ]
Mapperley Memories 1945 – 1960
Angela Grant was born in Mapperley and went to Carlton Cavendish School. At the age of fifteen she moved to Newmarket in Suffolk to be a stable-girl working with horses. She shares some memories with us. I was born in 1945 and lived on Kenrick [ … ]
‘Help to Buy’ Success For Mica and Luke in Mapperley Plains
When first time buyers Mica and Luke were looking to buy their first home in Mapperley, they were already aware of the Government’s Help to Buy scheme after friends had used it. When the pandemic started in 2020, the couple (both in their 20s) moved [ … ]
Memoirs Of A Former Police Officer
First Hand Account Of Front-Line Policing In Nottingham. ‘The Sharp End’ is a new book that details the career of former Nottinghamshire police officer Tom Andrews. Tom lives in Woodthorpe and his memoirs of an action packed career that included three murder arrests. Is there [ … ]
Roofing Services And Loft Conversions
Recommendations by users of Mapperley People for roofing services. We have also included recommendations for loft conversions too. ROOFING SERVICES Ash Hargreaves: Tel 07432126525 Danny: Tel 07776306399 Colin Wilson Roofing Services – Carlton Roofing services based in Porchester – Tel 07525774831 – dmburginroofing@aol.co.uk Danny Platts [ … ]
Plumbers and Heating Engineers
Plumbers and heating engineers recommended by the users of Mapperley People. Thomas Kenny Plumbing and Heating – Woodthorpe based. Plumbing jobs, large or small – Gas Safe Heating engineer. Boiler installation and servicing – 07530224824 or tomsmaintenance@gmail.com CW Plumbing and Heating – Tel Chris on [ … ]
Property Maintenance – General
General Handymen (and women) suggested by users of Mapperley People for those general property maintenance and odd-jobs. Sherwood based Tel: 07572 181532 Email: OddJobPaul@yahoo.com PLS Plumbing Heating and Property Maintenance Services – Multi Trades – E: leesherriff16@gmail.com – Tel: 07983048339 Peter Moss: General handyman and [ … ]
Memories Of The Old St Ann’s
A book was published by Plowright Press in 2002: St Ann’s Nottingham: Inner-City Voices was a compilation of memories written by people who lived and worked in St Ann’s before the demolition of the homes in the 1970s. 30,000 people were rehomed and some left, [ … ]
Wheelchair Accessible Places
We recently posted this message sent to our Facebook page I love wildlife but currently need a wheelchair if walking more than 5 minutes. Where are the best wheelchair accessible places locally to see birds, flowers, trees? Alternatively, where are the best benches that are [ … ]
Mapperley’s Golf Club
Mapperley Golf Club has existed for over 120 years, long before the urbanisation of the area. The club has grown into a beautiful parkland course, only four miles from the centre of Nottingham. Its rolling fairways present the golfer with an interesting challenge from the [ … ]