Mapperley Park is a conservation area and one of Nottingham’s most prestigious residential locations. It is noted for its distinguished Victorian and Edwardian properties, set along attractive tree lined avenues. It seems though that not all of these mansions survived. One of them was named [ … ]
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Alexandra Park – A History
Alexandra Park is a small development of impressive houses off Woodborough Road, near to the junction with Magdala Road. The first properties were built in 1857 and the entrance to the estate was gated with a lodge. The winding road into the estate was originally [ … ]
Mapperley Author – Dorothy Whipple
The people behind Nottingham City of Literature keep finding stories about Mapperley connections to famous writers. A few weeks ago it was DH Lawrence and his relationship with a woman who lived on Private Road. Now it is the novelist Dorothy Whipple, who lived in Mapperley [ … ]