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This little garden is between the top of the steps up from Sneinton Hermitage and Lees Hill Street.

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There's not that much public art in Nottingham, by which I mean art in every day public places. This statue of four people walking through the street is at the top of Chapel Bar. It seems to me from the individuals' determined expression and the fact that they're not making eye contact with each other that they are on their way to work. The statue used to stand at the top of the Market Square

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All around the suburbs of Nottingham and its suburbs you will see walls built of Bulwell stone.  Bulwell Stone is popular because of its gold/buff/orange colour (due to traces of iron oxide) and because it weathers down quickly to look old.  The blocks are traditionally hand dressed in this rough, rounded shape. Bulwell Stone actually used to be quarried in Bulwell (and nearby Basford), but now

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William Booth was born in 1829 in Notintone Place, off Sneinton Dale (not be be confused with Notintone Street which in on the other side of the road). Booth left Nottingham in his twenties and founded the Salvation Army in London in 1865. This statue stands in front of Booth's house, which is now a museum . The row of three Georgian houses is surrounded by the modern William Booth Memorial

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Nottingham City Council seems to have a contradictory attitude to car parking. On the one hand it has a comprehensive transport policy  which talks about reducing car dependency, reducing traffic growth, reducing pollution and improving air quality and on the other and enforcing ever more stricter parking standards. On the other hand it builds its own new car parks and complains when its

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Plumptre Hospital is a grade II listed building on the corner of Fisher Gate and Poplar Street. It was an almshouse founded in 1392 in the reign of Richard II and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The plaque above the door reads: 'Funded and endowed for the support of a master, a priest and thirteen poor widows by John de Plumptre in 1392. Repaired by Huntingdon Plumptre Esq in AD 1650.  

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Nottingham was an important Danish settlement and one of the five Midland Danelaw boroughs.  Much of the narrow medieval street pattern still exists and is preserved in streets name ending in 'Gate'.  This has nothing to do with town walls or city gates, but was Scandanavian word for street. The Scandanavian word for gate was 'bar' as reflected in the name Chapel Bar. Most of these street names

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Two art-deco stone lions guard the entrance to the Council House.  They were created by local sculptor Joseph Else (1874-1955), who was the Principal of the Nottingham School of Art between 1923 and 1939.  Depending who you ask, the lions are either called 'Menelaus and Agamemnon' or 'Leo and Oscar'. Meeting 'by the lions' has become a Nottingham tradition, with the left lion being the most

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This little brick tower is in a corner of St Mary's Rest Garden. There is a nice black and white metal sign headed 'Curious little brick tower' which tells you all about it: 'This is the curious little brick tower. It is believed that the tower was originally an access shaft to the beck culvert tunnel during its construction, though it later became a ventilation shaft for the culvert, foul air

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Severns Building is on Castle Road opposite the Robin Hood statue. It is was built in the 1430s century and is one of the few surviving medieval buildings in Nottingham.  It originally stood on Middle Pavement near where the entrance to the Broad Marsh Centre is now. It was dismantled and moved to its present site between 1969 and 1970.  Until early 2009 it housed a shop selling lace.

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Graffitti can be a terrible eyesore and Nottingham City Council have a crack anti-graffitti squad  who remove graffitti really quickly - 24 hours for offensive stuff and 48 hours for anything else. However, every now and then (and without condoning vandalism) you see something like the work above which is quite arresting.These headstones appeared in the Rock City car park the day after both

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If you ask people all around the world what they associate with Nottingham they will probably say 'Robin Hood'.  This statue of Robin Hood is outside Nottingham Castle. The council's failure to capitalise on the Robin Hood story is a prime example of modest and contradictory Nottingham.  Many visitors come to Nottingham and want to know about Robin Hood. What is there for them about from this

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Nottingham was settled by the Anglo-Saxons, Danes and Normans; the castle was the seat of monarchs and parliament; it was an inventive town at the forefront of the industrial revolution; it was a centre of radical politics and dissent; it was a city of many firsts; it developed four separate leading industries; it was the home numerous notable Nottinghamsters; one of its football teams won the

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There isn't a collective noun for people from Nottingham (like Mancunian, Brummie, Geordie, Scouser) and so I'm going to call us Nottinghamsters.

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This is a blog about Nottingham - what to see and what to do, with a sprinkling of history.

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