Description:
Numbers 473 and 475 Woodborough Road. Woodborough road runs from Nottingham City to Mapperley Plains, three miles away.
Picture the Past website contributor Linda Brockway adds:
'Number 473 was bought around the time of the photograph by Ken and Linda Brockway who restored the property, it having been rented for a long time and poorly maintained.
It was originally two semi-detached dwellings, but the left-hand one was demolished - from local information only its laundry copper was left for many years as evidence of its existence. It belonged to a builder who in the 1920s made it into a double-fronted house. During work on the house in the 1980s the join could clearly be seen, with external render inside the living area where the new left hand part had been added. In addition a part-cellar was discovered, having been filled in to enable the stairs to be re-aligned, plus an rainwater tank under the back path (which is actually marked on an 1882 town plan).
The land to the side had been allowed to erode and this was made into a terraced garden which is now (2014) overgrown. Number 475 has since been converted into two one-bed flats; most of its garden is now parking space for the garage next door.'
Picture the Past comments: The same 1882 (Ordnance Survey) plan mentioned by Linda Brockway perhaps gives an indication of why the left-hand portion of number 473 was demolished. Both 473 and 475 are shown perilously close to the edge of a clay pit and brickworks, to the extent that they occupy a small irregularly shaped projection of land on the north side of Woodborough Road where the excavations have gone round them. Elsewhere, the clay pit extends right up to the boundary with the road.