Nottingham... and do you love your city?
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2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
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!
The Nottingham Post was where the Corner House complex is now in the pic above
Looking back towards Sandby Hall. The new Uni buildings would now obscure this view.
This thread brings back memories!
I grew up in a village in Nottingham (in the Vale of Belvoir). Pretty much as soon as I turned 16 I moved into a shared house in The Park and, looking a bit older than my years started sampling the night life.
I worked behind the bar at The Club, Browns and Jayce's (if anyone remembers the idiot who used to ride his motorbike through the bar in Browns to park it in the stockroom at the back, it was me!).
Used to drink in an eclectic mix of places including the above and Jallans, The Market Bar, The Hippo, Cookie Club, Hand and Heart, The Dragon, The Irish, Rock City and The Yorker to name a few.
When I was 19 I somehow managed to blag a business loan and set up my first business in Hockley (Cranbrook Street Recording Studios) and I remember during this time going to see a play at the Playhouse where even more amazingly managed to get a beer and a kiss from a young Helena Bonham Carter!
I then set up a bar near(ish) to the castle (The Baliff's Bar) where one night I had a surreal lock-in until 5:00am with Quentin Tarantino!
I also must have seen most popular groups from the 80's to early 90's play live in Nottingham in one venue or another.
So my memories of Nottingham from this era are nothing but fantastic.
Having the fallen into the investment world (which was odd, given that I was going for law) I ended up doing my stint in London before returning to Nottingham and buying a house in The Park (a far cry from renting my first bedsit there!) and setting up my own investment company in 2002.
I've moved back to the Vale of Belvoir and the company continues in the Lace Market with the younger team members continuing to enthuse about how good Nottingham still is.
I'm pretty sure it was better in my days, but it is still a remarkable city. Yes, there are areas that have high crime rates - but that is the same as any city suburbs. The satellite towns and villages are a different story (in my village the last crime I am aware of was an attempted break in of the cricket pavilion - and this was 10 years ago!).
The city centre is still a pretty safe place to be if you avoid the obvious places where people go to cause trouble.
I wouldn't swap my formative years in Nottingham for anything and equally the same now I am in my forties and a married family man. I have the benefit of country life yet am 25 minutes away from pretty much all the shopping, restaurants, night life and everything else I may need, and a hour on the train from London when there is anything else.
I don't know of any other place where you can do this at the same price.
I grew up in a village in Nottingham (in the Vale of Belvoir). Pretty much as soon as I turned 16 I moved into a shared house in The Park and, looking a bit older than my years started sampling the night life.
I worked behind the bar at The Club, Browns and Jayce's (if anyone remembers the idiot who used to ride his motorbike through the bar in Browns to park it in the stockroom at the back, it was me!).
Used to drink in an eclectic mix of places including the above and Jallans, The Market Bar, The Hippo, Cookie Club, Hand and Heart, The Dragon, The Irish, Rock City and The Yorker to name a few.
When I was 19 I somehow managed to blag a business loan and set up my first business in Hockley (Cranbrook Street Recording Studios) and I remember during this time going to see a play at the Playhouse where even more amazingly managed to get a beer and a kiss from a young Helena Bonham Carter!
I then set up a bar near(ish) to the castle (The Baliff's Bar) where one night I had a surreal lock-in until 5:00am with Quentin Tarantino!
I also must have seen most popular groups from the 80's to early 90's play live in Nottingham in one venue or another.
So my memories of Nottingham from this era are nothing but fantastic.
Having the fallen into the investment world (which was odd, given that I was going for law) I ended up doing my stint in London before returning to Nottingham and buying a house in The Park (a far cry from renting my first bedsit there!) and setting up my own investment company in 2002.
I've moved back to the Vale of Belvoir and the company continues in the Lace Market with the younger team members continuing to enthuse about how good Nottingham still is.
I'm pretty sure it was better in my days, but it is still a remarkable city. Yes, there are areas that have high crime rates - but that is the same as any city suburbs. The satellite towns and villages are a different story (in my village the last crime I am aware of was an attempted break in of the cricket pavilion - and this was 10 years ago!).
The city centre is still a pretty safe place to be if you avoid the obvious places where people go to cause trouble.
I wouldn't swap my formative years in Nottingham for anything and equally the same now I am in my forties and a married family man. I have the benefit of country life yet am 25 minutes away from pretty much all the shopping, restaurants, night life and everything else I may need, and a hour on the train from London when there is anything else.
I don't know of any other place where you can do this at the same price.
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
Just Googled it, Liberty's was just behind on Upper Parliament St.
Maybe it was Madison, it was a long time ago!This is the first time I have really felt old!
The Stranglers (watching JJB kicking down a bouncer) to Duran Duran - who were oddly brilliant.
Elvis Costello, The Cure, The Smiths, everyone else I could mention. I really wouldn't swap those years in Nottingham for anything.
JulianPH said:
Maybe it was Madison, it was a long time ago!
This is the first time I have really felt old!
The Stranglers (watching JJB kicking down a bouncer) to Duran Duran - who were oddly brilliant.
Elvis Costello, The Cure, The Smiths, everyone else I could mention. I really wouldn't swap those years in Nottingham for anything.
I saw Duran Duran in the early days of Rock City opening, they did Planet Earth and Girls on Film about 6 times each I don't think they knew many other songs.This is the first time I have really felt old!
The Stranglers (watching JJB kicking down a bouncer) to Duran Duran - who were oddly brilliant.
Elvis Costello, The Cure, The Smiths, everyone else I could mention. I really wouldn't swap those years in Nottingham for anything.
It was however as I recall, a great night.
Another standout gig around the same time was Japan - oh and Gang of 4.
It seems that about 99% of posters on this topic are just relating the student day piss ups & city center watering holes. Back on topic, it seems Nottingham is not a good place to bring up your kids, which I can very well believe.
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-new...
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-new...
gus607 said:
It seems that about 99% of posters on this topic are just relating the student day piss ups & city center watering holes. Back on topic, it seems Nottingham is not a good place to bring up your kids, which I can very well believe.
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-new...
Yep, the city certainly does have its problems.https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-new...
gus607 said:
It seems that about 99% of posters on this topic are just relating the student day piss ups & city center watering holes. Back on topic, it seems Nottingham is not a good place to bring up your kids, which I can very well believe.
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-new...
It has made its way onto a list of the 25 regions that are high risk for children to become gang members. How on earth do you suppose this means what you say?https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-new...
Take 25 regions away and you are not left with much.
thole ever again.
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
Is Cucamara bar still about? Fond memories from my teens to maybe 25, every Nottingham night out started there, grabbing some cocktails to get us going. It was on an alley between market square vicinity - to the right of Yates - to Upper Parliament Street.
gus607 said:
Yes it is !
http://cucamara.co.uk/
I was at the opening night and can't believe it is still going!!! http://cucamara.co.uk/
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