Old Railway Bridge to Wilford at the Embankment. The missing bridge.
924 First bridge built over the Trent at the current Trent Bridge site by King Edward the Elder and became known as the Hethbeth Bridge. 1086 In the Domesday survey, the village of Brigeforde was part of the Manor of Clifton. The Lord of Clifton Manor was William Peveral who lived in Nottingham Castle. 1329 Major repairs to Hethbeth Bridge completed by Alice, widow of John le Palmer, a prominent Nottingham citizen.
1685 Joan Phillips said to have been executed for highway robbery at gallows which were erected at the meeting of Loughborough Road and Wilford Lane in April 1685. 1746 Man hung on gallows near Wilford Lane.
1827 Jack Musters became Lord of the Manor of West Bridgford. Jack had married Mary Chaworth, the heiress to the Annesley, Wiverton and Edwalton estates, in 1805.
1838 The tithe map showed that the Lordship of West Bridgford was 1078 acres, of which 985 acres were West Bridgford Estate land owned by the Lord of the Manor John Musters, 58 acres owned by Clifford Caunt of The Poplars Farm and 33 acres were glebe land, on permanent lease to the Rector of St Giles Church. 1849 John Chaworth Musters inherited the West Bridgford Estate on the death of his grandfather Jack Musters.
1851 Census shows 258 people living in 51 houses in West Bridgford.
1871 Opening of the new Trent Bridge designed by Nottingham Borough engineer Marriott Ogle Tarbotton. Two arches of the old Hethbeth Bridge were preserved in the roundabout just south of the new Trent Bridge. 1873-80 Abolishment of the turnpike trusts for the Grantham, Loughborough and Melton roads with removal of the tollgates. 1880 Official opening of Midland Railway’s line from Nottingham to Melton Mowbray. The line had taken 7 years to build following an authorising Act of Parliament in 1872.
1880 The first plots of West Bridgford Estate land are offered for housing development by John Chaworth Musters. 1881 Census showed 293 people living in 55 houses in West Bridgford. 1882 Nottingham Corporation agree to supply water to West Bridgford through a Trent Bridge pipeline at a cost 33% above that charged to Nottingham residents.
1887 John Patricius Musters inherited the remains of the West Bridgford Estate on the death of his father. 1889 The Lordship of West Bridgford and the remaining estate lands were sold by John Patricius Musters to Col Horatio Davies of Wateringbury Place, Kent
1891 Census shows 2502 people living in 519 houses in West Bridgford. 1897 West Bridgford Defence Association set up solely to oppose all applications for licensed premises. 1901 Census shows 7018 people living in 1559 houses in West Bridgford.
1906 Welbeck suspension bridge opened. Main function was to carry water from Wilford Hill resevoir to the Meadows. 1910 Opening of West Bridgford Masonic Hall in Welbeck Road. 1911 Census showed 11632 people living in 2864 houses in West Bridgford. 1921 Census showed 13346 people living in 3440 houses in West Bridgford.
1926 Trent Bridge widened to take four lanes of traffic. 1931 Census shows 17821 people living in 5065 houses in West Bridgford. 1935 Edwalton and Wilford incorporated into West Bridgford Urban District.
1952 Land west of the LNER railway line (including Wilford village) was transferred to Nottingham City Council and land south of the Trent was transferred to West Bridgford UDC. For the first time County Hall and Forest Football Ground became part of West Bridgford.
1968 Trains ceased to run between Nottingham and Melton on the Midlands Railway line. Part of the line between Melton and Boundary Roads became the Green Line.