There is a very-mysterious “Gedling Wharf” on the OS_OpenData_StreetView north of Arnold Lane and, having finally been able to join together just what it was and where it was, I’ve added it to the map.

The Wharf (more accurately “Bottom Wharf” — see Gedling Country Park) was where Gedling Colliery distributed coal from the pit:– > - Coal was sold from the Top and Bottom Wharfs:
- The Top Wharf was at the top of the colliery site (now Chartwell Heights) and was the main selling point for domestic sales to local firms Leapers and Trumans. - The Bottom Wharf was closer to Gedling village (the old Grey Goose Pub, now Gedling Village Care Home). From here coal was sold directly from the weighbridge. Leapers would deliver coal collected from here to all local miners.

The same website points out that 80% of the coal from Gedling Pit was household lump coal (for home heating). Now, I was born into & brought up within homes where the principal method of keeping the place warm was an open-fire made from coal (the fireplaces incorporated a back-boiler, so the front fire also provided hot water). So for me I realise that the words “household lump coal” refer to small, hard coal designed for home heating. However, as an old guy (67) I also realise that there are many — and more every day — that cannot know what on earth those words mean.

In a recent December post there is a picture of Coal Sheds built in 1959 & provided with every house on Perlethorpe Drive & Wollaton Avenue. Those streets are very close to the Wharf, but every house in all of Nottingham would also have been equipped with a Coal Hole (the 1886 Victorian house where I write this had coal poured into the basement via an opening at street-level).

My childhood home in Hull had a combined tool-shed & coal-hole in the back-garden. Coal was delivered on a horse-drawn Coal Dray (no kidding) & one strong memory is of brawny chaps carrying a hundredweight of coal (50.80kg) on their shoulder down the side of the house to the shed. My job was to carry a bucket behind the dray until the horse gave up it’s gift of manure for the garden.

PS
Although it is located upon the OS map I can discover zero GIS for Gedling Wharf. In those circumstances I’ve had to use a node rather than a boundaryLine.