Lost Nottingham

Nottingham has been a significant trade and industry center in the East Midlands since the Middle Ages, known for lace-making and household names like Boots and Raleigh. However, many historic quarters have disappeared over the years, including Broadmarsh Shopping Centre, ancient caves, and famous buildings like the Black Boy hotel, Holy Trinity Church, and Victoria train station. Lost Nottingham explores these changes through photographs, slides, postcards, documents, and illustrations from various sources, offering a portrait of a city and way of life that has radically changed or disappeared.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 15 April 2025
Publisher: Amberley Publishing

The city of Nottingham, located in the East Midlands, has a rich history of trade and industry dating back to the Middle Ages. It is particularly renowned for its lace-making, centered on the preserved Lace Market area, and has been home to notable household names such as Boots the chemists and Raleigh bicycles. However, the city's layout and streets remained largely unchanged until the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, Nottingham experienced significant changes, with large areas of the city demolished, centuries-old streets disappearing, and famous old buildings such as the Black Boy hotel, Holy Trinity Church, and Victoria train station being destroyed. This book aims to explore what has been lost in the city over the years through photographs, slides, postcards, documents, and illustrations from the Paul Nix Collection, the Nottingham Hidden History Team archive, and the authors' own photographs. Lost Nottingham presents a portrait of a city and a way of life that has been radically changed or disappeared today, often in the name of progress and development. It showcases not only the industries and buildings that have gone, but also the people, street scenes, and popular places of entertainment that have been lost. This fascinating photographic history of lost Nottingham will appeal to anyone who lives in the city or knows it well, as well as those who remember it from previous decades.

Weight: 307g
Dimension: 234 x 165 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781445695631