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Pictures of Mansfield in the 1960s

I grew up in Kirkby  and went to school in Mansfield. They have both changed a lot since then, but these pictures give a few glimpses of how they looked in the 1960s. They aren't a systematic record, most of them were taken on a couple of days walking round trying out my camera and a new type of film.

We parked on Nottingham Road and I walked around the Midland station through Titchfield Park, under the railway at Littleworth and back along Baums Lane to meet my father.

Trying to piece together the journey 55 years later was quite hard since the town has changed, some of the railways have gone, and even street names. of the things I photographed were no longer there. The shop advertising Mansfield Ales was on the corner of Wharf Road and Belvedere Street but neither of those names appear on a modern map. Wharf Road is now the station car park and Belvedere Street has been renamed as a continuation of Rosemary Street, which used to end at Stockwell Gate.

One thing that strikes me looking at these photos is the amount of stone – not just the railways bridges but walls and buildings. Walking round Mansfield as a boy I don't remember that being significant, but after living so long in an area where there is no building stone I now notice it.

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 Pictures

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Footpath leading up from Station Road to the Midland Station
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Looking up Victoria Street from the top of Belvedere Street
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Looking down Station Road towards Queen Street alongside the railway viaduct
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Scrapyard near the Midland Station between Quaker Lane and Station Road
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Shop on corner of Wharf Road / Portland Street after bridge near Midland Stn.
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Railway sidings near Portland/Belvedere St towards Whiteleys factory chimney
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Footbridge in Titchfield Park
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The brewery seen from Titchfield Park with gasworks behind
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Path by railway behind Titchfield Park where Maun flows under old iron foundry
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Baums Lane - where Central railway crossesd Littleworth
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Nottingham Road with Field Mill floodlights in the background
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Nottingham Road where Central railway crossed (Titchfield Park behind garages

All material Copyright © John Harrison 1965 – 2020

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