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Further development of the City Ground was ruled out in 2009 by Nottingham City Council, who owned the land the ground was built on, [52] and in September a new plan was unveiled to build a 45,000 seater stadium for the 2018 World Cup close to the A52 at Gamston, with the club arguing that "exhaustive studies of the existing City Ground have ...
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The gallery describes its site as being "the oldest in the city", having been the site of a Saxon fort. [2] To celebrate the area's history of lace manufacture, the cladding of the building is embossed with a traditional Nottingham lace pattern. Nottingham Contemporary is a registered charity under English law. [3]
The arrival of the Great Central Railway in Nottingham resulted in the relocation of all businesses in the area required for the construction of Nottingham Victoria railway station. Watson Fothergill decided to move to George Street, and his new office building was constructed in 1895.
Over the centuries, the courts and prison were developed and enlarged. In 1724, the courtroom floor collapsed. The Nottingham Courant in March 1724 recorded: [3]. On Monday morning after the Judge had gone into the County Hall, and a great crowd of people being there, a tracing or two that supported the floor broke and fell in and several people fell in with it, about three yards into the ...
John Holland Walker records that there was an Assembly in Nottingham as early as 1739 [2] The Old Assembly Rooms, also known as the Ladies’ Assembly, were built in the 18th century [3] and consisted of a handsome, lofty and spacious room 67 feet (20 m) long and 21 feet (6.4 m) wide, with a gallery for music at the upper end. [4]
The Forest Recreation Ground is an open space and recreation ground in Nottingham, England, approximately one mile north of the city centre.This urban space is bounded by the neighbourhoods of Forest Fields to the north, Mapperley Park to the east, Arboretum to the south and Hyson Green to the west.
The caves here are some of the oldest remaining in the city, with pottery finds dating some of them to 1270–1300, [4] and were inhabited from at least the 17th century until 1845 when the St. Mary's Nottingham Inclosure Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 7 Pr.) banned the renting of cellars and caves as homes for the poor. [5]