Written by MichaelJM on May 21, 2008
- I’ve travelled up and down the A46 between Bingham and Newark on more occasions than I’m able to recall but I’ve never made the detour to check out the villages that lie between it and...
Written by JayBroek on June 28, 2004
- At the age of 14 my parents had finally had enough of my teen angst and packed me off to boarding school. Sure, they dressed it up with
claims to be 'concerned about my education'...
Written by JayBroek on June 28, 2004
- What is Nottingham all about? Robin Hood plays a big part, although he was more a countryside kind of guy. Torvill & Dean might ring a bell
with some (whatever happened to ice dancing anyway?)....
Written by JayBroek on June 28, 2004
- Now there's an evocative name - Maid Marian Way. If I tell you it runs close to the base of Castle Rock, in the shadow of Nottingham
Castle, what pictures does it conjure up in...
Written by JayBroek on June 28, 2004
- You know you've made it in Nottingham when someone arranges to "meet you by the Lions". Lying proud and noble outside the city's magnificent Council House, the lions are almost always accompanied by crowds of...
Written by marseilles on March 24, 2007
- One of our main reasons for coming to Nottingham was to visit Nottingham University, one of the British universities I hope to apply to for a postgraduate degree. We left our hotel early in the...
Written by JayBroek on June 28, 2004
- Nottinghamshire is a county that isn't easy to pin down and describe. With residents numbering around 1 million it couldn't be described as a
sparsely populated place and yet vast swathes of the north of...
Written by JayBroek on June 28, 2004
- The murky River Trent makes a sluggish sweep around the south and east of the city and separates it from its oh-so-proper neighbour West
Bridgford. In many people's eyes Bridgford is just a suburb of...
Written by JayBroek on June 28, 2004
- The area immediately to the east of the Old Market Square is known as Hockley. A short stroll up pedestrianised Pelham Street or Victoria
Street takes you away from the city centre of well known...
Written by tjwit on September 4, 2003
- For a landlubber, the working of the locks can be intimidating. That is, until you see how easy it is! The water does all the work. All you are doing is draining the lock or...
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