Join our guide for the day, Senior Citizen and Nottingham resident Bartholomew Utterswaite, for a walk down Along Bulwell Main Street today, comparing the same walk with that of 1963, when your guide was working on that same street. We stroll from what today is the KFC take away, at the end of Hucknall Lane along Main Street into Bulwell Market and the train and tram Station. We start off at...
Penned by a Nottingham resident and decrepit impecunious pensioner, of great senility and ill health Mr Inchcock. with the hopes of encouraging.. er... well something! On my last walk around Nottingham City's abandoned shops... I mean City Centre, I came across some council workers removing a sign from the wall. The sign read: Visit Nottingham Castle to hear the fables of Robin Hood and his...
Our local historian, guide, agniologist and impecunious pensioner invites you to take a walk with him (more like a hobble in his case) around Nottingham City Centre, comparing the choices and prices now, compared to what he paid and had as a teenager, Café-wise. The comparisons depict the changing face of life for Nottingham residents, legal and otherwise. 1960: Maid Marion Way Establishmen...
Historical Walks of Ye Olde Nottingham From the City Centre - to Nottingham Castle Our local historian, guide, agniologist and pensioner takes you along the route, describing what we sees now, and what was there in his youth and before. The comparisons depict the changing face of life for Nottinghomians. Nottingham City Centre: 1863: We stand in the market-place amidst the horse and ca...
Historical Walks of Ye Olde Nottingham Home to the Public Baths A guided tour of the route taken in 1963 - comparing it with today. 1963: I'd leave Brookfield Place in the Meadows, with the soot coming down from the railway viaduct, along the cobbled horse manure decorated road, and pass the policeman's bike leant up at Maureen Chapmans house door. Today: Today, we start at the bookmaker...
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