The Nottingham street where 'creepy' child-like bollards will give you nightmares

Once you get to know Nottingham, either from living here or visiting regularly, you’ll grow to expect the unexpected. 

Here at Nottingham World we love nothing more than highlighting the city’s weird and wonderful places, even if some of them can be a little bit, er, disturbing. 

I recently visited the infamous Museum of Curiosities for the first time and saw enough human skulls and haunted objects to influence a life’s worth of nightmares. 

A month or so ago, I took a tour inside the eerie Rock Cemetery Catacombs, said to be one of the city’s most haunted spots. 

It appears that I’m something of a martyr when it comes to experiencing the more unusual parts of Nottingham, but I’m cool with that. 

I recently received a tip-off about a road in Sneinton which certainly falls into the ‘weird and wonderful’ category. 

Those who have walked or driven along Windmill Lane over the past few years may well have been stopped in their tracks by - there’s no other way of saying this - something you’d expect to see in a horror film. 

On either side of the road outside Sneinton C of E Primary School are several multicoloured plastic children, posing as traffic-calming bollards. 

With black, staring eyes and an expressionless face, the bollards could easily be related to the terrifying TV character Chucky. 

Given their close proximity to the school, the idea behind the child-like bollards is to make drivers slow down. 

It’s fair to assume that many drivers would hit the brakes after catching a glimpse of the creepy plastic children. 

Three of the children are also wearing Brian Clough’s trademark green jumper which, intentionally or not, makes a nice touch. 

In person, the bollards do genuinely seem quite haunting - but their regimental stance also makes it look like they’re about to defend a free-kick. 

Sadly some of the plastic gang have been targeted by vandals, with their torsos now bearing graffiti. 

Similar bollards have been installed near schools across the country, where their gormless faces have divided opinion. 

So, if you’re ever driving in the Windmill Lane area of Sneinton, just remember that, no matter how quiet the streets may seem, you will never be truly alone.