Historic Nottingham π
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Anything old, historic, iconic or interesting in the world's best city, Nottingham.
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08-10-2014 19:56:34
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The original #Nottingham Playhouse on Talbot Street/Goldsmith Street. It was previously a cinema. Opened in 1948. Vacated in the 1960s. Now at its present location on Wellington Circus. Nottingham Playhouse #Nottingham shire #Notts #architecture
Pearson Brothers Department Store, Parliament Street, closed 1988 #beforeandafter #Nottingham #Notts #Nottingham shire #architecture
#Nottingham Victoria Station. Sadly the clock tower is all that remains of this #Victorian station. Designed by Albert E. Lambert, opened in 1900. It served The Great Central & Great Northern Railways. Closed in 1967 and demolished #beforeandafter
The Reform Club, 16-18 Victoria Street, dates from 1869-70, designed by Robert Evans for The Imperial Fire and Life Insurance Company. In 1912-13 it became the Reform or Liberal Club. G2 listed. Members included the industrialist Sir Jesse Boot #Nottingham #architecture
Thurland Hall is a G2 listed Public House, 1898-1900. By GS Doughty of Nottingham for Levy & Franks. Restored c1990. Renaissance Revival style. The name commemorates Thurland Hall, demolished c1830, which stood nearby. #Nottingham #architecture
22 Fletcher Gate, a former lace warehouse for Boden & Co. G2 listed, built c1895 by A.H. Goodall. Terracotta frontage. Converted to a public house 1991-92, now a bar Das Kino #Nottingham #architecture #Nottingham shire
Furley & Co shop, W. Fothergill, 1896, Lower Parliament St/Clinton St with a couple of the terra-cotta panels. There are 4 in total representing growing & transporting tea, a tea market, cutting sugar cane & boiling sugar cane #Nottingham #architecture
Stanford House, Castle Gate. Great doorway, animal skull and fanlight window. What more could you want? #Nottingham #architecture
Enjoy the architectural showcase at the ARKWRIGHT BUILDING, NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY, SHAKESPEARE STREET! #Nottinghamshire #architecture #Notts #Nottinghamshire
Watson Fothergill's lovely old English porch with a carved ' Rose of England' has his name etched on the side. Neo-gothic #victorian pub, G2 listed, 1899, Mansfield Rd. Previously Yorker, Filly and Firkin #Nottingham shire #Nottingham #Notts #architecture
The Gate Hangs Well, on the corner of Brewhouse Yard and Castle Road closed in 1905. Linked by a series of caves, carved out of the sandstone rock, to Its neighbour the Trip to Jerusalem #Nottingham #beforeandafter #architecture
The Hand and Heart dates back to at least the 1860s when the caves were used to store and mature beer. The pub stopped brewing its own beers in 1933. #Nottingham #Nottingham shire #beforeandafter
On the edgelands of the city centre is the Hicking Building, built in 1873 as part of a large complex of lace warehouses. The building is now used, amongst other things, as a bar/restaurant/apartments #Nottingham #Nottingham shire #architecture #HappyEaster
Blue sky over the Co-Op, Upper Parliament Street, built 1916, closed 2001 #Nottingham #architecture #SaturdayMorning
Built in 1928 as the Three Crowns, then in later life becoming the Tavern in the Town, then Edward's Bar in 1997 and then Flares...now The Three Crowns again! #Nottingham #beforeandafter #GoodFriday
4, Warser Gate Lace Market A brilliant doorway with one of the best examples of a fanlight you will see on #MaundyThursday in #Nottingham today #architecture
19 Park Terrace The Park Estate 1881. Probably Thomas Chambers Hine at his most dramatic, perching precipitously over the Park Tunnel (also by Hine) completed in 1855 #Nottingham #Nottingham shire #architecture #Notts
Some #ArtDeco loveliness at the YMCA Shakespeare St. The building dates from 1937 and is by architect Cecil Howitt who also designed #Nottingham 's Council House #architecture
