The History of Ruddington Depot
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Under the Hammer
Ambivalent attitudes
For more than 20 years, large posters advertising the auction sales in Ruddington were displayed on railway stations throughout the country. As each sale ended, a new poster advertising the next sale, replaced it. The sales were also advertised prominently in the national and local press, so that Ruddington became widely known. The people who lived there found that when they were away from home for whatever reason, strangers they met recognised the name of the village as the place where the auctions took place.
If they were pleased that the auctions had put Ruddington on the map, they also found the traffic created around sale days trying. It was good that there were full and part time jobs available locally, but there was a price to pay. For about 10 days out of every 8 weeks there was considerable congestion in the village as buyers came to view and to bid, and vehicles of all sizes removed from the Depot site. To many it was a mixed blessing.
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