Nottingham... and do you love your city?

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funkyrobot said:

The tall building in the second pic was my main university building. Spent a lot of time in there.

Trent Poly in my day. We used to be able to get onto the roof of the tall tower. Great views!

[kev b]

Another one here who used to visit Sytners showroom to gaze at the exotica.

Actively avoid Nottingham now due to their war on motorists, haven't been back for years as theres nothing there worth fighting your way in for.

If I want to see a band, shop or just have a wander around a city I just go somewhere else thats easier to access, the traffic policy must have cost the city a fortune.

[So]

BryanC said:

when in the mood ).
Yates:
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Langtrys
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The Trip
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Can I point out to anyone thinking of visiting Nottingham on the basis of the above that Yates's isn't black and white anymore. It is in fully technicolour, for better appreciation of the pools of vomit therein.

Langtry's and The Trip have now been coloured in properly.

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Faust66 said:

Most days I walk back from Nottingham to Beeston after work and the traffic is horrendous. Castle Boulevard, Abbey Bridge, University Boulevard are jammed 90% of the time so something clearly needs to be done. Dunno what the answer is (wish I did) but the scum slug (aka the Tram which I will NEVER use as it's a complete white elephant) is not the answer.

Nottingham has it's mad half hour for traffic, but is actually amazing really for a largish city. I've just driven from the ring road to the city up Derby Road. OK it was 7.38, but it took me six minutes & there was no queuing. I've lived in a fair few places & it's by far & away the best for traffic. (A similar journey at this time in Cambridge for example would be about an hour). St Albans would die to have the equivalent of Nottingham rush hour at any time of the day (or night!) and that's tiny.

The cycle lane they've put in on Castle Boulevard is ridiculous though. It makes this major road too thin. To make it worse 90% of the bleedin' cyclists still use the canal towpath.

Tram is handy but loses £1m per week. Since they took off the conductors a lot of people just hop on & off for free.

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Derby Road at 08.41 this morning. How bizarre is that for one of the maybe dozen main entrances to the city?



I can't think of anywhere else I've ever lived that you'd be able to see tarmac that time of day!

[So]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Derby Road at 08.41 this morning. How bizarre is that for one of the maybe dozen main entrances to the city?



I can't think of anywhere else I've ever lived that you'd be able to see tarmac that time of day!

Indeed. I would expect it to be jammed with people visiting the city, after your scintillating promotion of the place.

[DoubleD]

So said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Derby Road at 08.41 this morning. How bizarre is that for one of the maybe dozen main entrances to the city?



I can't think of anywhere else I've ever lived that you'd be able to see tarmac that time of day!

Indeed. I would expect it to be jammed with people visiting the city, after your scintillating promotion of the place.

Im starting to wonder if he works for the city promoting it!

[RizzoTheRat]

My Mrs lived in Beeston for a while some years back, I seem to remember it being very studenty, although I think she might have been more towards Lenton than the middle of Beeston.

I'm not a city person though and can never really imagine loving a city. I am however currently living on the outskirts of a smallish city (The Hague) and I'm certainly tolerating it. Mainly because the city centre is about 5km one way, and this is about 200m the other way. So easy access to shops and restaurants, but with fresh air and open spaces.

Bit different to Highfields Park Lake

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Wednesday 27th February 14:00

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DoubleD said:

So said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Derby Road at 08.41 this morning. How bizarre is that for one of the maybe dozen main entrances to the city?



I can't think of anywhere else I've ever lived that you'd be able to see tarmac that time of day!

Indeed. I would expect it to be jammed with people visiting the city, after your scintillating promotion of the place.

Im starting to wonder if he works for the city promoting it!

I thank you! (I'm off to the council to collect my fee)

[ElectricSoup]

jimmybell said:

ay up.

Spent 18 years of my life in/around Nottingham. Before i went off to Uni it had a positive vibe, great party city, music scene was huge and full of friendly people, things were being renovated everywhere and it had claim to some stuff the rest of the country ('cun-treh') didn't.

Since the recession... not so much. Seems like it's been on a downer for 10 years, i find it kinda depressing to walk around these days (and thus avoid it). It has all the makings of a great place - some great history, good people, good central location, great buildings etc, just seems very tired now. Bristol seems to have beaten it in the scene/'hipster city' stakes these days.

That said - you can take people out of nottingham but the nottingham never leaves the people. I was in a bar in chicago and heard a nottingham accent (which i'm pretty sure is something only nottingham folk can identify) - i shouted 'oi nottingham' and got a friendly 'ay up love!' back across the bar. I get the impression there's a decent resurgence of 'local first' attitude coming back, butchers/bakers/florist/restaurants/food assembly/etcetc all community supported. hopefully that continues - nottingham would make a great hub for a return to quality farming and thus food - the city certainly has the appetite for good food and drink.

oh and this:

bingybongy said:

Selectadisc.

Ay up my duck.

I was a mere blow-in student there but managed to string it out to 4 years residency. If anyone says cold and it rhymes with Derby Road, then I know they're from Nottingham.

I worked through University in the Grove pub on Lenton Boulevard, after it was done up to be an "Ale House", late 80s/early 90s, and I made some great non-student local friends in there who I'm still in touch with and occasionally visit for a beery weekend (usually starting at the Hand and Heart). I was in the Trip the day they celebrated their 800th Anniversary, that was quite something. Used to drink in a right estate pub at the bottom of the Lenton/Derby Road flats, behind the cinema, called The Happy Return. Used to cash a £10 cheque in there every Monday night before student night down the Black Orchid. Dragged my mates there for my stagger when I got married, World Cup Final weekend 1998, visit to Rock City included.

Great memories, still have huge fondness for the city and took my kids for Sunday lunch at the Trip a few years back, on a day trip from Reading, and did the tour round the old Courts and jail in the city centre.

I did get my car stolen once, which was used as a getaway car in an armed robbery. Of course I hadn't driven it for two weeks because it wouldn't start for me with the key, but of course a scrote with a screwdriver managed...

Christ, too many memories, happy and sad, flooding back now. Long time ago.

Edited by ElectricSoup on Wednesday 27th February 14:34

Edited by ElectricSoup on Wednesday 27th February 16:06

[PurpleTurtle]

I grew up in the 80's just north of Birmingham, so Nottingham was our near-but-far neighbour as a kid, it always had some aura to me as a kid because of the success of Forest at the time!

I had several mates go to Uni there and have always had great nights out there, love a bit of Rock City.

My friends who have settled there are able to afford decent houses on average wages, in comparision to where I live now in the South East. Everyone I know that lives there speaks mostly highly of it, apart from the traffic. DUnno what it's like in the app-hailing age, but I always remember it being awful for being able to get a taxi home on a Friday or Saturday night, have Uber got an operating licence?

Looking forward to my next visit now!

[daqinggegg]

Warrows Wine Bar, 70"s, wine bar, dubious whole in the wall place owned by Bob Warrow, a colorful character to say the least. Great music, if a little repetative, sticky carpets, rough cider and no resemblance to a wine bar.
Lord Bob also had a house in "The Park" and a love of Mini's.

[ElectricSoup]

PurpleTurtle said:

I grew up in the 80's just north of Birmingham, so Nottingham was our near-but-far neighbour as a kid, it always had some aura to me as a kid because of the success of Forest at the time!

I had several mates go to Uni there and have always had great nights out there, love a bit of Rock City.

My friends who have settled there are able to afford decent houses on average wages, in comparision to where I live now in the South East. Everyone I know that lives there speaks mostly highly of it, apart from the traffic. DUnno what it's like in the app-hailing age, but I always remember it being awful for being able to get a taxi home on a Friday or Saturday night, have Uber got an operating licence?

Looking forward to my next visit now!

Join me when I visit the lads, it'd be a night out right up your street!

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daqinggegg said:

Warrows Wine Bar, 70"s,

Lumpy Scrumpy!

[bingybongy]

daqinggegg said:

Warrows Wine Bar, 70"s, wine bar, dubious whole in the wall place owned by Bob Warrow, a colorful character to say the least. Great music, if a little repetative, sticky carpets, rough cider and no resemblance to a wine bar.
Lord Bob also had a house in "The Park" and a love of Mini's.

Blimey, forgot all about that place. The carpets were something else along with a pint of lumpy and black.
What was the club in the Lace Market 70s/early 80s.
Saw the Damned there and John Ottaway.

eta - The Sandpiper.

[matrignano]

ElectricSoup said:

The Happy Return

I remember that, proper dive! Behind the tall council blocks off Lenton Boulevard, right?

Had a few very late lock-ins in there

[PurpleTurtle]

ElectricSoup said:

PurpleTurtle said:

I grew up in the 80's just north of Birmingham, so Nottingham was our near-but-far neighbour as a kid, it always had some aura to me as a kid because of the success of Forest at the time!

I had several mates go to Uni there and have always had great nights out there, love a bit of Rock City.

My friends who have settled there are able to afford decent houses on average wages, in comparision to where I live now in the South East. Everyone I know that lives there speaks mostly highly of it, apart from the traffic. DUnno what it's like in the app-hailing age, but I always remember it being awful for being able to get a taxi home on a Friday or Saturday night, have Uber got an operating licence?

Looking forward to my next visit now!

Join me when I visit the lads, it'd be a night out right up your street!

Eyeballs Sat 23/11 #Shedcember!

[cloggy]

RizzoTheRat said:

My Mrs lived in Beeston for a while some years back, I seem to remember it being very studenty, although I think she might have been more towards Lenton than the middle of Beeston.

I'm not a city person though and can never really imagine loving a city. I am however currently living on the outskirts of a smallish city (The Hague) and I'm certainly tolerating it. Mainly because the city centre is about 5km one way, and this is about 200m the other way. So easy access to shops and restaurants, but with fresh air and open spaces.

Bit different to Highfields Park Lake

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Wednesday 27th February 14:00

I was born and grew up in Scheveningen.

[Faust66]

DoubleD said:

So said:

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Derby Road at 08.41 this morning. How bizarre is that for one of the maybe dozen main entrances to the city?



I can't think of anywhere else I've ever lived that you'd be able to see tarmac that time of day!

Indeed. I would expect it to be jammed with people visiting the city, after your scintillating promotion of the place.

Im starting to wonder if he works for the city promoting it!

Love it!

I stopped getting the bus that runs along that route as it took so long due to the traffic, but our resident Nottingham fanboi (Hi Jon Collins!) takes a picture implying Nottingham is some sort of traffic free Nirvana!

It's nice that you feel so passionate about the place, but remove the rose tinted glasses for a minute, eh?

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Faust66 said:

DoubleD said:

So said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Derby Road at 08.41 this morning. How bizarre is that for one of the maybe dozen main entrances to the city?



I can't think of anywhere else I've ever lived that you'd be able to see tarmac that time of day!

Indeed. I would expect it to be jammed with people visiting the city, after your scintillating promotion of the place.

Im starting to wonder if he works for the city promoting it!

Love it!

I stopped getting the bus that runs along that route as it took so long due to the traffic, but our resident Nottingham fanboi (Hi Jon Collins!) takes a picture implying Nottingham is some sort of traffic free Nirvana!

It's nice that you feel so passionate about the place, but remove the rose tinted glasses for a minute, eh?

My iphone doesn't have a rose filter It was just a photo taken at 08.45 ish this morning.