Town Walk 2025 - Part 01 - From The Erewash Museum
w/e 29 June 2025
This part equates to Stages 01, 02 and part of
03 of the original Town
Walk that started in 2002.
Back then I opened the series with a collage featuring images
of the Erewash Museum. It included a sign on the corner of Anchor
Row and a sign still exists there but it is a different one now..
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Just around the corner from that sign is a notice board which
includes a poster detailing the opening times of the museum.
It's always as well to check opening times whenever visiting
any attraction unlike me on this occasion as the museum was closed.
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Yes, the museum was closed but the gates were open allowing entry
to the forecourt and this view of Dalby House and its extensions
in which the museum is located. From 2002: "....
John Dalby lived in the house from 1806 to about 1810 ..... It
was originally part of the Duke Of Rutland's holdings."
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If the museum had been open, I could have gone through the forecourt
and into the gardens. Turning left in front of the museum in
2002 I stood on the lawn in the walled garden and took some photos
over the wall of the distant Bennerley Viaduct but that area
became inaccessible some years ago due, I believe, to some structural
concerns as the land on the other side drops down towards Chalons
Way.
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Even before that part of the gardens was closed, the buttress
supported wall seen from the forecourt is indicative of the different
levels.
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Back in 2002 I took a photo from the back of Dalby House looking
down the steps between the house and the Hayloft and Stable Block
over the Erewash Valley. This is the same passage today looking
in the opposite direction.
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Although it is not possible to look over the Erewash Valley and
towards the Bennerley Viaduct from the Walled Garden, it is possible
to look in the same direction from the Museum gates, albeit in
a different season of the year, but the view is obscured by trees
that are currently in full leaf.
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I also included, as an aside in 2002, some photos of the 1879
built listed structure and since then a lot of work has been
done to restore the viaduct and open it as a pedestrian and cycle
route across the Erewash Valley. This is a view taken earlier
this year as work continues to create a Visitor Centre and ramp
on the Nottinghamshire side. Great credit must be given to the
Friends
of Bennerley Viaduct for all their
hard work.
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But back to the start of the walk and a similar view to one taken
on the original walk. "Two paths lead from
the museum gates. One is a gentle slope from where this picture
was taken and the other leads down the steps in the picture.
Both however lead to the underpass."
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It was November 2002 when I took a photo from here looking down
the steps to the underpass under Chalons Way when traffic could
be seen speeding along the road but once again at this time of
year, it's foliage on the trees that are obscuring views of the
road.
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