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An undated picture postcard showing the view looking down University Boulevard with Nottingham University College's Trent Building visible on the right. |
A 2008 photograph showing more or less the same section of road as in the previous shot. Taken in March the flowering cherry trees that line the pedestrian entrance to Highfields Park can be seen in bloom in the middle distance. |
The view looking westwards down the middle of the Boulevard. Usually this road would be clogged up with vehicles but their relative absence is explained by the fact that this and the previous photograph were taken one Sunday afternoon, when most motorists were otherwise engaged. |
Photographs of the Sealed Knot Society's gathering in Nottingham in 1983
One weekend in June in 1983 the Sealed Knot Society held an event in Nottingham. The participants were mostly camped on the University sports ground situated at the western end of University Boulevard. These photographs show them preparing to cross University Boulevard and making their way into Highfields Park for a two-day re-enactment of scenes from the Civil War.
I remember tanks being driven along University Boulevard during
the second world war and then up Clifton Boulevard. They were being
collected from Chilwell where they were stored. We used to wave and
the crew used to throw us sweets.
I was instrumental many years later [when working for the Parks
Department] in getting the grass strip down the middle of the
boulevard converted to paving having experienced the trauma of
cutting the grass in my earlier times at the park.
Many of the beech trees were killed when the cycle path was later
put in. Beech trees do not like having their roots disturbed or
covered.
When Woodside Road was subsequently dualled after the War, I
specified that stone be placed around the trees planted before the
war on the anticipated route of the second carriageway to avoid the
same problem as University Boulevard where the original cambers
were all wrong and the second carriageway had to be raised.
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