A Poetic Tribute To Hungerhill The soil is all the richer, to have formed on Hungerhill Years of cultivation and domestication, with little time to play Industrial winds and those of change, supplemented the gardener’s skill Brick, coal and human dust, now settled on Mapperley’s [ … ]
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Mapperley Plains by Christopher Isherwood
The acclaimed author Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) once wrote about Mapperley Plains, despite having not visited. This was whilst he was at Repton School in Derbyshire in around 1920. The school organised a balloon release, where a card with the name and address was attacked to [ … ]