Nottingham... and do you love your city?

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Anybody seen Outlawed? Terrible film but loads of Nottingham locations, including the Park Tunnel!

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Louis Balfour said:

On a train to London and the people on the next table are speaking of Nottingham caves.

Not you is it 2SB?

Are they incredibly handsome? If not then no



No, I’ve just returned from the golf course which is a white out!

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Louis Balfour said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Are they incredibly handsome? If not then no

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Portly and swigging White Lighting, hence my question.

It could be me!

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Jer_1974 said:

Just back from Nottingham and this thread pops up. I met up with some family for a few days and went to the Stereophonics concert.

Buffalo Hooters wings nice waitresses not so nice
Double red lines everywhere don't remember seeing any in Glasgow
Maid Marion car park tight as a nuns chuff and did an alloy on my Rangy.

..but, apart from that?

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....and ironically 250 yards from Maid Marian Way is the new (and a lot wider) Broadmarsh.

(Although you need to drive 1.5 miles to avoid the bus gate)

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Louis Balfour said:

Over the Easter hols we want to show the children some of the visible caves in Nottingham.

Aside from the cave tour, where are there interesting ones that can be accessed? I seem to recall the Hand & Heart has some, the Bell on Market Square? Any others worth a look?

How did it go?

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Louis Balfour said:

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Louis Balfour said:

Over the Easter hols we want to show the children some of the visible caves in Nottingham.

Aside from the cave tour, where are there interesting ones that can be accessed? I seem to recall the Hand & Heart has some, the Bell on Market Square? Any others worth a look?

How did it go?

It didn't happen.

The eldest has mocks and is frustratingly diligent with his revision. Over the entire three weeks we managed about 4 meals out.

I, however, was on your manor on Wednesday night. I cruised around for half an hour or so. It's a fascinating locale.

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Louis Balfour said:

Something that occurred to me: Some of the bigger places there are quite pricey, I imagine, and I assume home to the "well to do" - you probably. But where do those people go shopping? Clumber Street and House of Ashley? I doubt it.

Plenty of independents in Nottingham (probably). Shopping is not my thing, unless it's for beer or cars.

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Louis Balfour said:

Square Leg said:

Now Hooleys have gone from Derby Rd you can’t buy brown cars in the city centre anymore.

IT'S NOT BROWN.

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Sorry for your loss. I might be around

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It's called summat different now...

...but all Nottishamers of a certain age will have very fond memories of this view. 43 years ago this very day I dived off that mezzanine (only luckily to be grabbed by my mates). I can still see the crowd parting beneath me.

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raceboy said:

Mmmm Yates

I enjoyed a quality lager there this arvo

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Great pic! I can see I was out when that was taken

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Just looked again...

....that photo is at least five years old! (My other half called me a blind old tt)

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Louis Balfour said:

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It's called summat different now...

...but all Nottishamers of a certain age will have very fond memories of this view. 43 years ago this very day I dived off that mezzanine (only luckily to be grabbed by my mates). I can still see the crowd parting beneath me.

Is that Yates "wine lodge"

now Slug and Lettuce

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RammyMP said:

I watched England beat Holland in Euro 96 from that balcony!

As I remember we let the Dutch score one goal which then eliminated the Scots.

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Louis Balfour said:

Square Leg said:

I don’t know if Arthur Seaton had a car, but if he did, it’d be brown.

It’s NOT brown.

Seems to be a recurring claim

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BryanC said:

Yes it was.
Our hero - Arthur Seaton is shown meeting his lady friend on the Nottingham Castle terrace overlooking the Meadows.
Back in the day, it was railway marshalling yards and industrial workshops with steam engine smoke mixing with the coal fired chimneys of the terrace houses.
All that has gone now, replaced by the Castle Marina business / retail park and HMRC complex soon to be University teaching space.

In the Raglan Road pub there's a great still of Arthur running up Derby Road (near where the pub is now)

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Louis Balfour said:

I went on a very interesting history tour of Sneinton a few weeks ago. Lots of fascinating stuff to look at.

People were living in the Hermitage until the '60s. Nice views from the windmill

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BryanC said:

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....In the Raglan Road pub there's a great still of Arthur running up Derby Road (near where the pub is now)

And in the movie, my wife's uncle stepping off the bus as it was going down Derby Road.

I met a bloke in an indian restaurant who claimed he was the babe in arms when the women was shot with the air gun