A forthcoming evening wedding do with a 1940s theme had me head off to Nottingham to a vintage fair looking for something suitable to wear. The venue was the Albert Hall, which is a place I've been to many-a time, either to sing, or to listen to my children singing or playing in bands and orchestras.
Anyway, it didn't take me long to walk around the stalls, partly because I knew I wouldn't find anything appropriate, being so short, and partly because I'm not a huge fan of dressing up either (if you saw me at last year's Picnic in the Park, you might like to know that that's probably the first time I've ever dressed up: I'm debating whether or not to dress up for this year's Picnic in the Park, which is a celebration of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert - 8th June - do come along!), which means I didn't really want to find anything!!!
So, finding myself with a bit of time before my train, I went off on an adventurous (well, adventurous for me!) walk around bits of Nottingham I wasn't very familiar with.
Starting from the Albert Hall, I couldn't help but be impressed with the hall itself, and the wonderful buff terracotta used in its decoration. The current building is actually a replacement for the original which was designed by Watson Fothergill - who also designed our NatWest bank - but which burned down in 1906. The new building was designed by Alfred Edward Lambert, who also designed the Victoria Street station and the Nottingham Midland station, both in Nottingham:
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| Nottingham Midland railway station |
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| Nottingham Midland railway station |
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| Nottingham Midland railway station |
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| Albert Hall |
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| Albert Hall |
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| Albert Hall |
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| Albert Hall |
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| Terracotta detail next to the Albert Hall |
From the Albert Hall, I went up the hill, called Derby Road, until I hit its junction with Ilkeston Road and Alfreton Road, where I followed the latter. There were some lovely pubs this way, including the Sir John Borlase Warren (I admit not someone I'd previously heard of, but it piqued my interest because of the artist Borlase Smart who has a connection to St Ives, a place I visit most summers), and The Falcon, of which there is also one so named in Long Whatton:
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| The Sir John Borlase Warrem |
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| The Falcon |
The Rose and Crown I passed on my travels was no longer a pub. Our own Rose and Crown was opened in 1930 during a period of street widening and has been through a number of name changes, but has reverted to its original.
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| The Rose and Crown, Nottingham |
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| Rose and Crown, Loughborough |
Another former Nottingham pub, whose identity I do not know, simply reminded me of the Clarence Inn on the corner of Nottingham Road and Clarence Street, though known more recently as the Jack 'O Lantern, and now flats, although now I put the two pictures together, I can see they look not at all alike!! Maybe I was thinking of the new shape of the Royal George?
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| A former pub in Nottingham |
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| The former Clarence and Jack 'O Lantern |
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| New flats on the site of the Royal George |
The Generous Briton in Nottingham was quite unlike ours, which is on Ashby Road, although ours is still a pub, whereas the Nottingham one is now a Chinese restaurant:
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| Nottingham's former Generous Briton |
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| Loughborough's Generous Briton, from Regent Street |
And the last of the Nottingham pubs, one which is now a restaurant, is quite unlike any of ours, with very decorative tiling:
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| A former Nottingham pub |
The other things that I noticed whilst on my trip around Nottingham were some of the road names. The Nottingham Midland station is on Carrington Street, and we have one of those in Loughborough, although I think ours is often spelled with only 1 "r":
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| Nottingham's Carrington Street |
Nottingham also has a Boden Street, whereas we have a John Boden Way - a very recent addition to our collection of street names:
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| A stunning former bank on the corner of Boden Street, Nottingham |
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| A close up of the Nottingham street |
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| Loughborough's similarly named street |
Loughborough has many streets named after poets, like Wordsworth Road, Burns Road, Larkin Lane, and Tennyson Road. I passed a Tennyson Street in Nottingham:
On the way back to the railway station there were a number of things that caught my eye and reminded me of Loughborough. Here's a few of them:
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| Slate gravestones, although these were Welsh slate, not Swithland slate |
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| A pub with a Swithland slate roof (compare this to our former 12 Degrees West) |
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| I always feel close to home when I'm near a canal! |
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| Quite unlike either of ours! |
And, when I returned to Loughborough I thought how lovely 'The Brush' looked in the sun, and how nice to have a reminder of the train station in the flats opposite!
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| 'The Brush' |
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| Reminder of trains |
Of course, there were loads of other things that reminded me of Loughborough, but time has again caught up with me, and I should be doing something else!!
'Til next time!!
Lynne
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