Spent a lot of my childhood playing we used to go over the wooden bridge play around the graveyard and the prefabs built just after the war there was a stream we used to fish in and a reservoir where we shouldn't have been playing in but what happy memories lovely days cheers Mo
Remember doing similar I think the stream was Cotton brook and the old graveyard was always a challenge! Newt pond also on the other side of Ascot Drive. Good childhood memories
I used to walk over it everyday when I was an apprentice at the Rolls-Royce training school, Ascot Drive. Thanks for the giving me a glimpse into those distant days.
Many's the time I've walked or cycled across here. Used to stand on the crossbar of my pushbike to get photos of the stock in the sidings beneath. Thanks for the memories.
Remember when they excavated the graves at that churrch. I was at Wilmorton Tech and we went down and saw sheets around the graves to hide from the public.
At the far end of Derby Carriage and Wagon works (Bombardier) Osmaston Road more or less opposite to the junction of Davenport Rd and Osmaston Road. The other end of the bridge continued as Longbridge lane to the Junction with Ascot Drive. (Ascot Drive joined London Road with Osmaston Rd.)
