We recently posted a photograph of the wrought-iron entrance gate of the rather neglected former police house at 649 Woodborough Road (opposite the top of Porchester Road). This became a police station in around 1904, two years after the tram reached that location and a [ … ]
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The History Of Mapperley’s Houses
Interested in the history of where you live in the Mapperley area? Well Richard Johnson of Sherwood is here to help you. For a modest fee, Richard will research your house (or family) and produce a historical document to cover the early history of the [ … ]
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 [ … ]