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WHERE I LIVE  Following a prompt by grayblue1, here is a tour of the Lace Market, where I live in the city of Nottingham. In Anglo-Saxon times, around 600 AD, Nottingham was was called Tigguo Cobauc, meaning the place of caves. There are lots of caves in Nottingham, enough to shelter 20,000 people during the Blitz of the Second World War. When Tigguo Cobauc fell under the rule of a Saxon chieftain named Snot, it became known as Snotingaham, meaning the home of Snot’s people. Not many places are named after snot! Snotingaham, later to become Nottingham, was based in an area now known as the Lace Market, which is where I live – see photo above. The medieval centre of Nottingham was the Lace Market. The photo below shows the former Shire Hall, which is now the Galleries of Justice Museum.  During the Industrial Revolution, Nottingham became the home of the lace industry, again based in the Lace Market. When I moved to Nottingham, many people told me that Nottingham women were very beautiful. This belief stemmed from Nottingham’s lace-making past when women who made the lace would take leftover lace back home to beautify them. There is no lace made in Nottingham now; the lace industry has since moved to Asia. The Lace Market, located very near the city centre, became increasingly derelict. However, since the 1980s, property developers converted the empty lace factories and warehouses into apartments, plus bars, restaurants and offices. My apartment is in a large building that was once a lace factory. Below are two photos of former lace factories and warehouses.  Above is of the street, Broadway, one of my favourite streets. The street is full of bars, clubs and restaurants. It’s also used a lot as a scene in film-making. Below is the Adams Building, the largest medieval building in Nottingham. This building, which is my favourite building in the city, is owned by a further education college. Universities don't always have the best buildings in town!  Nottingham is slightly unusual for a city in that it does not have a Church of England cathedral. The main Church of England church is St. Mary the Virgin, which was built in the Middle Ages. Below is a photo of the church taken from the street I live in. The church is one of the highest buildings in the city and offers fantastic panoramic views from its tower.  The last photo below is a view of the Lace Market showing the Pitcher & Piano pub, which used to be a Unitarian chapel. And there are trams running in Nottingham. All that I’ve written about in this post is no more than a two-minute walk from my apartment. I’ve lived in quite a few places – Shropshire, Yeovil, Coventry, London and Portsmouth – but Nottingham is by far the best place I have ever lived in. What is the place where you live like? What has been the best place you’ve ever lived in? Apologies for the length of this tour!  |
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That was a delightful tour, thank you. I live in a semi rural part of New Jersey very close to 3 large military installations. It is close relatively to two major cities, Philadelphia and New York city. The best place I have ever lived was actually two places at different times of my life,,, Thailand, near Pattaya Beach in the early 1970s and Puerto Rico in my more mature years
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Cool. Being a history nerd, I much enjoyed reading this post. Thanks!  blog on!
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I live in a city with a population around 90,000. The city is situated on the prairies of Alberta about 80 miles east of the great Rocky Mountains! The original name for the city when it was first started was "Coal Banks" because of the coal mines. The following bridge was built back then to haul the coal to the west coast by rail. We have a railway bridge that is the longest & highest of its kind in the world (they say) I have lived here for 64 years.
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Thanks for the interesting blog, I love going around UK cities. There are so many hidden parts of history that are easily missed. Mind you, as a Portsmouth boy born and bred, I cant agree that Nottingham is better   Abers60
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I live just outside of Toronto (Mississauga), and have lived within the same region (called the Golden Horseshoe) since childhood. The oldest building in the city of Mississauga, if I am not mistaken, is an Anglican Church that I attended as a boy (St. Peter's Erindale). it is only 189 years old. Not quite the history of Nottingham. Find pleasure in giving pleasure
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Wow that is awesome and now I know why I want to come visit your place.. I lived all over the place and now I live on Vancouver Island. I guess for the weather and what you can do all year round too. I will be posting some of my pics around this place onto my blog soon.. hugs V Whale Watching off of Vancouver Island.. Become a blog watcher sweet_vm
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That was a lovely post Spunky and it brought back good memories for me as I have visited Nottingham a couple of times. My elder brother used to live near there and the children and I would spend part of the summer holidays with him.  I live in the suburbs of Dublin. You wouldn't really think that I lived in a city because I'm beside a large park and also at the foot of the Dublin Mountains.....some of the architecture here is beautiful. My favourite place I have lived is Jersey. ~~Anais Nin~~
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You seem have started something good with your blog, maybe we should all do a pictorial tour of where we live Abers60
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That was a delightful tour, thank you. I live in a semi rural part of New Jersey very close to 3 large military installations. It is close relatively to two major cities, Philadelphia and New York city. The best place I have ever lived was actually two places at different times of my life,,, Thailand, near Pattaya Beach in the early 1970s and Puerto Rico in my more mature years
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Cool. Being a history nerd, I much enjoyed reading this post. Thanks! blog on!
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I live in a city with a population around 90,000. The city is situated on the prairies of Alberta about 80 miles east of the great Rocky Mountains! The original name for the city when it was first started was "Coal Banks" because of the coal mines. The following bridge was built back then to haul the coal to the west coast by rail. We have a railway bridge that is the longest & highest of its kind in the world (they say) I have lived here for 64 years.
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That must be a very impressive railway bridge. I'd love to see a photo of it.
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Some of my ancestors came from Nottingham in the 17th Century. Thanks for the tour! I live in the Longfellow mountains of Maine now but grew up seven miles from the ocean and Atlantic City, New Jersey. I would often ride my bicycle to the beach for the day in the summer.
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Thanks for the interesting blog, I love going around UK cities. There are so many hidden parts of history that are easily missed. Mind you, as a Portsmouth boy born and bred, I cant agree that Nottingham is better
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I live just outside of Toronto (Mississauga), and have lived within the same region (called the Golden Horseshoe) since childhood. The oldest building in the city of Mississauga, if I am not mistaken, is an Anglican Church that I attended as a boy (St. Peter's Erindale). it is only 189 years old. Not quite the history of Nottingham.
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Please do not apologise for the length of this post lovely S, it was a wonderful tour and I'm sure most others who take the time will agree. I'm so envious that you have such beautiful, old architecture around you. I adore gothic architecture and due to Australia only being settled by people who build permanent buildings for the last 226 year's, we don't have any. Even the buildings by our early settlers were nowhere near as gorgeous as anything you have shown us in this exquisite post. Where I live is a suburb that is about 7 kilometres from the city of Sydney, or a 25 minute bus ride from the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House and six train stops from them, about an hour's walk. The suburb I live in is a harbourside but due to lots of trees, I have no clear views to the harbour. Architecturally, there's a combination of office blocks and commercial buildings that are mostly glass and steel and soulless and the domestic buildings are a combination of early 20th Century of various styles and sizes, most not grand in dimensions and ugly, poky, unglamorous unit blocks from the 1960s through to the present day luxury blocks in random placement. With regret, there is no place that I have ever lived that I have liked, much less loved. I have never been in a position to really choose where I live and the government places that I have lived in have left a great deal to be desired. The only thing I like about where I live now is the location, all previous locations have been a fairly significant distance from water. Being a water sign, I need to live near water for equilibrium. If I could choose where I lived, it would be in a luxurious home owned by me that backed onto the harbour in the Northern or Eastern suburbs of the city of Sydney. I hope it is my fate. Failing that, I'd consider moving to the United States or England, I love the historical architecture of England.
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Wow that is awesome and now I know why I want to come visit your place.. I lived all over the place and now I live on Vancouver Island. I guess for the weather and what you can do all year round too. I will be posting some of my pics around this place onto my blog soon.. hugs V Whale Watching off of Vancouver Island..
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I've never visited Atlanta. All I know about Atlanta is that it hosted the 1996 Olympics. I need to get out more.
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I've not visited Rome. In fact, I've never been to Italy. I once was on a plane that landed and refuelled at Rome airport but I couldn't get off the plane, so I guess that doesn't count.
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That was a lovely post Spunky and it brought back good memories for me as I have visited Nottingham a couple of times. My elder brother used to live near there and the children and I would spend part of the summer holidays with him. I live in the suburbs of Dublin. You wouldn't really think that I lived in a city because I'm beside a large park and also at the foot of the Dublin Mountains.....some of the architecture here is beautiful. My favourite place I have lived is Jersey.
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Well done for talking about Nottingham without mentioning Robin Hood! I've been to Nottingham a few times and it seemed very nice but I never had time to explore properly. As I understand it, the lace factories were set up in Nottingham because there was already a hand made lace industry there. Machine made lace was often then worked by hand, to add more complex details. Now the Adams building looks Victorian to me rather than Medieval? What I see in the photo is certainly not Medieval, so if it is - it will be a different part! I live on Andover. It is a smallish sized town, grown in the 1960s and 1970s to take a large influx of Londoners. It's ok but nothing special. A lot of the pictures on my blog are taken in and around Andover. I've lived in a few places and liked all of them but I'm not nostalgic to return to any of them. You're right the the front of Adams Building is Victorian, but this frontage was added to an existing medieval building.
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Your street looks lovely. There are no palm trees in Nottingham!
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Living near the Rocky Mountains must be great. I have not visited Alberta (yet). I know it has a lot of tar sands and a famous rodeo in Calgary.
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The bed in my spare bedroom is already made up in readiness for your visit!
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You seem have started something good with your blog, maybe we should all do a pictorial tour of where we live
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