The city of Nottingham has been an important centre of trade and
industry in the East Midlands since the Middle Ages. Famous particularly
for lace-making, centred on the preserved Lace Market area, it was also
home to the household names of Boots the chemists and Raleigh bicycles.
Since the Norman period the layout of Nottingham and its streets
remained virtually the same until the mid 20th century. In the 1950s,
60s and 70s, Nottingham began to see many historic quarters of the city
disappear. Large areas were demolished; centuries-old streets
disappeared, particularly around the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre where
numerous ancient caves under buildings were also destroyed; and famous
old buildings Buildings such as the Black Boy hotel, Holy Trinity Church
and Victoria train station, fell victim to the bulldozers. This book
sets out 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 author's own photographs. Lost Nottingham presents a portrait of a
city and a way of life that has radically changed or disappeared today,
often in the name of progress and development, showing not just the
industries and buildings that have gone, people and street scenes, but
also many popular places of entertainment and much more. This
fascinating photographic history of lost Nottingham will appeal to all
those who live in the city or know it well, as well as those who
remember it from previous decades.
