Josephine Louise Angois was a volunteer nurse in the 20th century’s bloodiest war, who lived an extraordinary ‘ordinary’ life. With assistance from the Royal College of Nursing Service Scrapbooks, Mapperley can proudly claim this remarkable woman as our own ‘Florence Nightingale. Angois’ father, Paul Angois, was [ … ]
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Monthly Blog November 2023
Relics of Old St Ann’s BBC East Midlands interviewed Mapperley’s modern and accessible farmer after Storm Babet had exposed some landscaping methods from the 1960s. John Jones at Woodborough Park Farm spoke about the floods and the land that was washed away, revealing thousands of [ … ]
Clina House
The residential area of Mapperley is made extra special because of the variety of houses that were built over time, as plots of land became available. This haphazard way the area has developed, has given us a wide variety of dwellings, some modest and some [ … ]