What's Not In Nottingham (5)

 Happy With Weekday Cross

Just south of the tunnel that led from Nottingham Victoria station is Weekday Cross Junction. Here the Great Northern Railway east to Grantham (etc) forked left via London Road High Level station whilst the Great Central main line ran straight on, across the top of Nottingham Midland station and on via Arkwright Street.

Weekday Cross marked the ancient centre of the town ...

... but it collapsed way back and has recently been replaced with a similar stone pillar, arguably less attractive than the original.

Maybe that is because it needs a few hundred tears of weathering? 

Just across the road from the cross was the brickwork that marked a tunnel portal, the exit from the south end of Victoria station.

But, like fbb, you will find it difficult to identify anything of junction and tunnel today. But it was there once, honest.

In passing, note the footpath on the left.

But, after closure, a lot happened.

The viaduct was demolished and land nearby was shored up with new retaining structures, leaving a gurt big hole. Then there was this tram!

From Midland Station, it began by continuing on the Great Central viaduct northbound.

But the tracks needed to climb up from rail height to make their way at street level into the city centre.  So the tram got a new viaduct initially on the site of its historic progenitor.

It then veers off left to join its street running route on Middle Hill. 

So what do you do with the hole?

You leave the tunnel mouth in place and fill the hole with a building, an Arts Centre to be precise ...

... better viewed from Weekday Cross, showing it supplanting the former brick parapet.

And down the left hand side of the building as pictured above ...

... is a set of steps (Garners Hill) ...

... which directly replaced those in the puzzle picture that provoked this series of blogs.

The actual junction was where the flat bit is in the "now" Picture ...

... from where more steps lead back up to the end of the tram viaduct at he start of its street running.

Down there, on the left, there used to be a railway junction.

You would never know today!

The window above the apex of the signal box roof is the window above the trees in the 'today' view from down below!

 PLEASE NOTE 

From tomorrow we take a break from "normal" blogging (if ever an fbb blog is normal!) and start a short series entitled "Pubic Transport Promotes Christmas". Our alphabetical seasonal series will be concluded from Boxing Day onwards with letters S to Z.

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 R ejection and  R esurrection

Quirky Answer : 36 hours or less! Surprised? Jesus body was parked temporarily in Joseph of Arimathea's tomb at sunset on Friday (1800 in the new money). The tomb was guarded throughout the Sabbath (Saturday). When the women went to the tomb very early on Sunday morning, the guards had fled and the tomb was empty. The Bible tells is that Jesus rose on the third day, not after three days in the tomb.

There was nothing pretty about a crucifixion! 

Most pictures show Jesus as far too healthy, far too clean. He would have been in huge pain, found it difficult to breathe and covered with "stripes" (a polite word to sanitise pictures of the wounds from repeated lashings) and a great deal of dried blood. 

He was there as a result of an illegal trial, inconsistent witnesses, a fake charge and political expediency from the Roman judge (one Pontius Pilate).

But the Magi knew ...

... which is why one of their gifts was embalming fluid (myrrh).

At Jesus' dedication (aged 1 year), Simeon knew ...

... when he thanked God that he had lived to see God's gift of Salvation. He told Mary that her son would pierce her heart.

Bit none of them realised in detail how it would happen, a death and a resurrection to save mankind from the curse of its sin.

There has been a trend to condemn the story of the resurrection, saying that it is 'obviously, impossible'. You author agrees 100% - it is impossible but with one caveat, it is impossible by human standards. But a God who exists outside of our universe, space and time and is not restricted by human science and technology can do anything.

Don't forget - so far, after nearly 2000 years, no one has come up with a better explanation that fits the facts as we have them. Of course, we may have incorrect facts but the opponents of Jesus at the time failed to find an alternative so ...

... why reject the resurrection?

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