For the time being, this will be the last of my “Not West
Bridgford” posts, and it relates to the longest, straightest road in West
Bridgford. There are several contenders for this dubious honour, among them
Harrow and Repton, Stamford and Davies, and Alford Roads, and also Trent Boulevard,
but the longest of them all, stretching almost one and a half miles, dead
straight (laterally, though with significant gradients here and there) from
Trent Bridge cricket ground right up the hill almost to Sharphill Woods, is
Musters Road. It encompasses the entire social strata of the suburb, wealthy
towards the top, less so in the lower regions, with chapels, schools, medical
practices, tennis courts and retirement homes along the way. A few shops at the
Trent Bridge end. Formerly it gave its name to a Senior School (now demolished
and replaced by a health centre) and an Infants’ School (now renamed).
Especially in the lower stretch, between Bridgford Road and the traffic lights at the oblique junction with Melton Road, Musters Road offers a few architectural quirky bits, primarily of a turrety nature - the sorts of polygonal protuberances in which might reside creative types and other eccentrics.
The photograph above is of an admittedly rather dull and contrived turreted building, surely not one that would appeal to the genuine sufferer from Turrets Syndrome, but my excuse is that it isn’t in West Bridgford at all. No, it’s towards the western end of Colwyn Bay, heart and soul of the North Wales Riviera. However, it’s very much the sort of structure that might one day get built in Musters Road. What you can’t see, off the picture to the right, is the sea, but this at least allows us to leave this series of silly blog postings with the pleasant fantasy of West Bridgford on Sea.
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