It’s strange what you see when you’re out with a camera. I’ve never really thought of the “hill” element of Arnot Hill Park, and definitely never considered the idea of a view from the top.
The Home Brewery Building from Arnot Hill Park
The pond looks massive from this angle. The grey building is a Royal Mail Delivery Office. I’m not sure exactly what happens there, but it has lots of vans based and it’s where we go to pick up letters when they need signatures or penalty payments.
I once went there to pick up a letter, paid a penalty because it had the wrong stamp on, and opened it to find it contained an advert on glossy card. It was just after the Post Office started charging extra for letters that were larger than standard and the sender had obviously not heard the news.
The tower in the background is now, I believe, empty. For the last few years it has been used by Nottinghamshire County Council. Before that it was the HQ of Home Ales, the famous Nottingham beer. I never liked the beer, and thought that most of its pubs looked like they’d been designed by an East German, but I can’t fault the main building or Sir John Robinson, the founder.
There’s more information here. I will try to get more photographs as it deserves a better write-up.
The specks in the sky are the feral pigeons from the park.
Excellent landscape
Thank you. 🙂
Nice view from the top! It looks a very pleasant park.
I’ve driven past hundreds of times and until this year only been in two or three times, though I’ve sometimes seen Mallards walking about on the road outside.
We do the same thing! Eventually take the time to visit somewhere and then wonder why we didn’t do it before.
I think it’s because we have cars – if I had to use a bus I’d visit more local places. 🙂
I believe you’re right! 🙂
You made the most of a modest hill.
It’s such a small hill I hadn’t really noticed it before.
That is a nice view of the pond. Sorry to hear about paying a penalty on some advertisement sent to you. Doesn’t seem right.
That’s what I thought, but if you want the letter you have to pay. It also happened with a Christmas card one year. Such is life…
I accidentally sent out a Christmas card without a stamp this season, and it came back to me with the envelope stamped all over, defiling and preventing me from putting on a stamp on a resending.
That’s annoying. 🙂