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42 unusual facts about Nottingham


302 Acid

The group released an EP entitled Ailanthus Altissima on the Hackshop Records label in 2004, and subsequently a full-length album 302 acid0005 on the Nottingham-based Em:t Records label in 2005.

Alfred Hollins

According to some stories, Black traveled to Nottingham to hear Hollins play, and offered Hollins the position there and then.

Andrew Clough

Andrew Clough (5 January 1970 in Nottingham - 4 July 2007 in Melbourne) was a British slalom canoer who competed in the early-to-mid 1990s.

Andrew Naylor

Andrew Naylor (born August 12, 1965 in Nottingham) is a British ice skater who competed in pairs.

Benjamin Contee

He was born at "Brookefield", near Nottingham, Prince Georges County, Maryland, the home of his father, and original home of his ancestor, Maj. Thomas Brooke, Sr., Esq. (1632–1676).

Brent sidings

Coal trains, each consisting of up to 85 wagons, were despatched from the marshalling yards at Toton (between Nottingham and Derby), and received at Brent sidings.

Callum Smith

It was announced that he would make his debut on the undercard of Carl Froch vs. Yusaf Mack in Nottingham's Capital FM Arena on 17 November 2012.

Carlton Studios, Nottingham

Carlton Studios was a studio complex in Nottingham, United Kingdom that was built by Central Television which was later bought out by Carlton Communications who renamed the studios Carlton Studios.

The studios closed in 2005 and were bought by the University of Nottingham who renamed the site King's Meadow Campus and converted it into university space.

Chestnut Lodge, Widnes

Widnes is a busier station with express trains operated by East Midlands Trains also stopping with services to Nottingham, and services operated by First TransPennine Express to Newcastle-upon-Tyne via Manchester, Leeds, York, Teesside, and Sunderland.

City War Memorial, Nottingham

The service of dedication was carried out by Revd. James Geoffrey Gordon the Vicar of St Mary's Church, Nottingham.

Clifton Hall

Clifton Hall, Nottingham, a supposedly haunted country house in Clifton, Nottingham, England

Clifton Village, Nottinghamshire

A number of older properties lie along Village Road, which runs from the green to Clifton Hall, the former aristocratic seat of the Clifton family and erstwhile Education Department of Nottingham Trent University.

Clifton, Nottingham

The village is notable for many old buildings including Clifton Hall, and St. Mary's Church.

Cluny Abbey

Under the strain, some English houses, such as Lenton Priory, Nottingham, were naturalized (Lenton in 1392) and no longer regarded as alien priories, weakening the Cluniac structure.

Danko Herceg

He was junior world champion in 1990, and he won a silver medal in the C-1 team event at the 1995 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Nottingham.

Edmund Severn

Born in England, in Nottingham, he moved to the United States at four, settling in Hartford, Connecticut and studying violin with his father; he later studied music in Berlin.

Finn Atkins

Growing up in the Clifton area of Nottingham, Atkins attended Greencroft Primary School, Farnborough School and High Pavement College.

Hamilton Baynes

After returning to England from Natal, Baynes was Vicar of St Mary's Church, Nottingham (also an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Southwell and an honorary canon of Southwell Minster from 1905) until 1913; then Provost of Birmingham Cathedral (and an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Birmingham) until his retirement in 1937.

Janet Henderson

She was appointed lecturer in Worship at St John's College, Nottingham in 1993 and moved to the Cambridge Theological Federation in 1997 where she spent four years teaching worship and was Tutor and Director of Studies at Ridley Hall Theological College.

Jason Spencer

Jason Spencer was an English teenager murdered on 6 March 2007 in Sherwood, Nottingham.

John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers

The Earl Rivers Regiment of Foote was there on the day the King raised his standard in Nottingham, and they served in major battles thereafter.

Mark Poepping

Mark Poepping studied National Economics at German Universities of Paderborn, Bonn und Hagen and attended Nottingham University while on a students exchange program.

Matt Forde

Matt Forde is a Nottingham-born comedian, comedy writer, radio presenter and former political advisor for the Labour party.

Miss 600

Within a few months the pair had been spotted playing at an open mic night at Ryans Bar in Derby by local Nottingham producers Christopher Bucknall and Robert de Fresnes.

The album included several interesting collaborations including the title track 'Buying Time' which had been written by Nottingham singer songwriter Sam Beeton.

Nathaniel Crisp

Nathaniel "The Bishop" Crisp (1762-1819) - an 18th-century character in the city of Nottingham, England.

Known as Bishop Crisp, he was a butcher by trade, who carried out his business at the corner of Lister-gate and Broad-marsh in the City of Nottingham.

Old Market Square

The Old Market Square is an open, pedestrianised city square in Nottingham, England.

Folklore has it that it was in the Market Square where outlaw Robin Hood took advantage of an amnesty and won the coveted silver arrow in a contest devised by the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Percy Claude Byron

Perciful Claude Byron (September 21, 1878 – June 9, 1959) was a Nottingham-born photographer at the Byron Company in Manhattan.

Richard Levett

The sons of a country parson in Rutland, the two Levett brothers imported goods into England, which they then sold to chapmen at fairs across the country, including those at Lenton, Gainsborough, Boston, Beverley and elsewhere.

Robin Good and His Not-So-Merry Men

In the faraway town of Bethlingham, an obvious pun of the Biblical city of Bethlehem and the Robin Hood setting of Nottingham, roved a band of merry men led by Robin Good.

Rüdiger Hübbers

He won a bronze medal in the C-2 team event at the 1995 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Nottingham.

Sandiacre

John Barret, the Presbyterian minister, moved to Sandiacre in 1665 after losing the living of St Peter's Church, Nottingham in the Great Ejection.

Sempronius Stretton

The house in Lenton, Nottingham, that he had inherited from his father and never made his residence was left to his brother Severus.

Sherwood Sandstone Group

The Lenton Sandstone Formation (named from the Nottingham suburb of Lenton) is of Induan/Olenekian age.

Sir William Don, 7th Baronet

She was for a short period lessee of the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, and assisted at the opening of the Gaiety Theatre, Edinburgh.

Small Time

It follows a group of friends that are small time criminals in Sneinton, a suburb of Nottingham.

St. Philip's Church, Pennyfoot Street

St. Philip's Church was created out of the parish of St. Luke's Church, Nottingham.

Stjepan Perestegi

He won a silver medal in the C-1 team event at the 1995 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Nottingham.

Vitus Husek

He won a gold medal in the C-1 team event at the 1995 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Nottingham and at the 1996 European Championships in Augsburg.


1991–92 Notts County F.C. season

Nottingham-based brewers Home Bitter remained as kit sponsors, but for home games only; away from home Notts County wore kits sponsored by Edinburgh-based brewers McEwan's Lager.

2012–13 Nottingham Forest F.C. season

5 February 2013: Nottingham Forest and Alex McLeish mutually agree to part ways after just 40 days in charge.

Alan Dapre

His play 'Comeback' was staged at the Nottingham Playhouse in 1987 with performances by Philip Middlemiss and William Ivory.

Awsworth

Awsworth once had a station on the Great Northern (later LNER) line from Nottingham to Derby which crossed the Erewash Valley to Ilkeston over the Bennerley Viaduct, closed in September 1964.

Baskerville House

T. Cecil Howitt of Nottingham was asked to design the first building, which was to become Baskerville House.

British Sugar

In 1981 the Ely, Felsted, Nottingham and Selby factories closed after a reduction in the allowed sugar quota.

Broad Creek, Prince George's County, Maryland

The area was settled by Europeans in the 1660s and the town was created in 1706 when the colonial Maryland Legislature authorized surveying and laying out the towns of Queen Anne Town, Nottingham, Mill Town, Piscataway, Aire (also known as Broad Creek) and Upper Marlboro (then known as Marlborough Town).

China Policy Institute

Its Director is Steve Tsang, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, known for summing up the nature of the political system in the People's Republic of China as a ‘consultative Leninist’ system, and for his works on Taiwan's democratisation and the history of Hong Kong.

Fairfield Preparatory School

The catchment area for Fairfield is large due to the school’s popularity with children travelling from Loughborough and the surrounding villages and from as far as Leicester, Nottingham, Rutland and Derby.

Galleries of Justice Museum

The Galleries of Justice Museum, also known as the Shire Hall, is an independent museum and a registered charity on High Pavement in the Lace Market area of Nottingham, England.

Halswell

The Nottingham Stream flows through the suburb and joins the Halswell River.

Harrow-on-the-Hill station

The GCR ran on the former Great Central Main Line, an intercity trunk route and provided services from Harrow to destinations such as Rugby, Leicester, Nottingham and Manchester.

Henry Bentinck

Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1863–1931), British MP for Norfolk North-West and Nottingham South, Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton (28 August 1817 Nottingham – 20 December 1877 Birdsall House, Birdsall) was an English peer.

Independent Broadcasting Authority

ATV's commitment to regional output in the Midlands had been a long-running issue for the IBA; in 1980, they were allowed to keep their franchise, but with several tough conditions; that the company was substantially restructured, their Elstree production base relocated to Nottingham and the company rebranded to reflect its increased commitment to the Midlands.

Johan Molin

Over the weekend of 12–13 December 2009, Molin again turned out for the Nottingham Panthers in games against the Newcastle Vipers (at Whitley Bay Ice Rink) and the Hull Stingrays (at the National Ice Centre).

John Arnatt

One of Arnatt's most high profile roles was as "The Deputy Sheriff of Nottingham" in the fourth and final season of 1955-60 TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Richard Greene.

John Kenneth Pennington

John Kenneth Pennington (1927–25 August 2011) was a priest in the Church of England, Nottingham City Councillor and Sheriff of Nottingham.

Joseph Barret

His parents wished him to be apprenticed in London, but he preferred remaining at Nottingham, where he married Millicent, daughter of John Reyner, sometime fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Karel Reisz

In particular, scenes filmed at the Raleigh factory in Nottingham have the look of a documentary, and give the story a vivid sense of verisimilitude.

Katie Holtham

She started playing her club football with West Bridgford Colts (Nottingham) alongside English cricketer and Women's Ashes winner Jenny Gunn.

Kyrris v Oldham

Kyrris had operated 13 Burger King restaurants, including two on Angel Row and Upper Parliament Street, Nottingham.

Matt Fishel

The tracklisting includes the six singles "Football Song", "The First Time", "Behind Closed Doors", "Testament", "Radio-Friendly Pop Song" and "When Boy Meets Boy" plus album-only tracks "Maybe...", "Nottingham", "Seventeen Again", "Armitage Shanks (Jamie)", "Alastair", "Boxer Shorts & Razor Blades" and "Boys".

Michael Paraskos

He went on to attend the University of Leeds and University of Nottingham, studying at Nottingham with Fintan Cullen to gain his doctorate on the aesthetic theories of Herbert Read in 2005.

Michael Peter Harrison

Harrison, who played under Brian Clough at Nottingham Forest, enjoyed a playing career at Gateshead and then moved on to play for Belgian side Charleroi, alongside Phillipe Albert.

Nicholas Bozon

He was, by his own admission, del ordre de freres menours ("of the order of the Friars Minor"), and probably associated with the Nottingham friary, since he refers in his own writings to the Trent and Derwent rivers.

Nottingham Conference Centre

It was designed by Thomas Cecil Howitt, the most prolific and versatile Nottingham architect of the first half of the 20th Century, and one of the most prominent provincial English architects of his generation.

Nottingham Corporation Tramways

Powers were also sought at this time for the operation of motorbuses, and, in November, the Brush Traction Electric Engineering Company of Loughborough was approached to see if it were willing to operate two of its motorbuses in Nottingham for a trial period of three months.

Nottingham Township, New Jersey

Hamilton Township was created on April 11, 1842, from portions of Nottingham.

Papplewick Pumping Station

Papplewick Pumping Station, in the Nottinghamshire village of Papplewick, was built by Nottingham Corporation Water Department between 1881 and 1884 to pump water from the Bunter sandstone to provide drinking water to the City of Nottingham, in England.

Review of Civil Litigation Costs

Professor Paul Fenn, Head of Industrial Economics at Nottingham University Business School

Rolls-Royce Welland

Eventually, in early 1943, Spencer Wilks of Rover met Hives and Hooker, and decided to trade the jet factory at Barnoldswick for Rolls' Meteor tank engine factory in Nottingham.

Roy Minton

Roy Minton (born, in Nottingham, England) is an English playwright best known for Scum and his other work with Alan Clarke.

Samuel Boteler Bristowe

After court sittings, Bristowe routinely left Nottingham on the 5.40pm Great Northern train to return to his home at West Hallam in Derbyshire, and on this occasion was followed unobserved by Arnemann, who bought a ticket to the same destination and followed the judge onto the platform.

Swinnerton Ledge

In association with the names of geologists grouped in this area, named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Henry H. Swinnerton (1876–1966), British zoologist and paleontologist, Professor of Geology, University college of Nottingham (later Nottingham University), 1912–46; President, Geological Society, 1938-40.

Tennents' Sixes

The teams involved were usually from the Scottish Football League Premier Division, but occasionally guest participants from the lower divisions of the Scottish Football League were invited along with English clubs Nottingham Forest and Manchester City.

TimeSplitters

In February 1999, several members of the GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark development team — including David Doak, Steve Ellis, Karl Hilton and Graeme Norgate — left Rare Ltd. to form their own company based in Nottingham, England called Free Radical Design.

Tony Vaughan

Vaughan resided in Nottingham after his career came to an end, but now works for Audi in the company's sale room in Lincoln.

Transport in Bedford

East Midlands Trains intercity trains also serve the station, providing trains to St. Pancras, Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield and Leeds.

Trent FM

Launched on 3 July 1975 as Radio Trent and based in the converted Nottingham Women's Hospital at 29-31 Castle Gate, Nottingham, the station broadcast on FM and medium wave.

William Cavendish-Bentinck

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland (1893–1977), 2nd Chancellor of the University of Nottingham