Video

Hi! I have a couple of contacts that you may be interested in: 1. has done vids on London History: The Museum Guide www.youtube.com/@TheMuseumGuide (Jessica) I mentioned Nottingham & The Trip To Jerusalem, and was told: That’s on my shortlist of places to visit! 2. Documenting Changes In The High Street www.youtube.com/@wanderingturnip You may already be aware of them, but I am going to try to connect you anyway.

Vale the Spriggs family, residents of 20 Lammas Street, The Meadows from around WW1 to the when they were forcibly relocated for the redevelopment.

Yeah, enclosure didn't work out so well did it.

Well have just seen your video on Broadmarsh😕 it's now 2024 & we still have the shell of it & no real design as what they are going to do. It's so sad what has happened to the city. From a person born & bred in Nottingham

The "spaceships" were not part of the original design they were added as part of a mini-refurb in the mid 1980s.

Yes! But when's the main feature starting? And where are the ice creams?

In 1964 I would have been 10 or 11. The new Gem store was free entertainment in the evenings for a pre-teen lad like me, and in my home town too.

I had no idea about the meadows and its famous crocus flower. I actually lived in the meadows in the early seventies. Until they began knocking the houses down, such a shame.

I knew about this, but there is a comment below about Hyson Green being Hyacinth Green. Now that I had not heard before. But is it true?

In defence of Broadmarsh it had some quite useful budget price shops that normally would never get anywhere near the city centre and in its heyday was a popular, buzzy commercial success, while other cities nearby had not the same retail and leisure minded development, Nottingham attracted shoppers from outside the county. You could park practically inside it even on a Saturday as car park was huge, its numerous bus stops were crowded and could get you anywhere cheaply via constant parade of busses, It was and built so traveling into the city from the Station meant you had to walk through its impressive atrium and past it busiest stores. For shoppers it meant that even on rainy winter days you could be comfortable and dry. It was around for 50ish years, and I guess it did its job for the City at that time. The vandalism done to Dury hill was unforgivable though, and its time is well and truly over as shopping has moved on, specifically, To the huge Giltbrook and Netherfield retail parks, which are always busy. at least for those wedded to the Car (let's face it. its easier particularly with Kids and stuff to cary ) I think the once planned inTuTu redevelopment was a lucky escape for the City as it would not have fared any better, if the price of something more sympathetic and realistic for land use, is a decade of dereliction then that is OK in the long term.

Bread & Lard Islander by birth, currently 15miles down the road in Lufbra. When at school in W.B. in the late 60s I went, as part of a school project, to do some work on the caves before Broad Marsh was built. It was interesting and enjoyable. (B&LI = West Bridgford)

In the mid 80's we were driving from Arnold to shop at West Bridgford ASDA. It was considered a treat.

Apparently Hyson Green got it`s name from "Hyacinth Green" I lived in Nottingham all my life but never knew, it took a visit from a relative from Australia to educate me 🌷🥴🥀

What upset me was the Sneaky Act the Council did ..by suddenly turning The Flying Horse Pub..into retail space..no consultation....That was a Fabulous Pub.... with various bars and a Landmark...Crap Corrupt Council..always has been 🌼🏹🏹

St Anne’s could do with a healing well, not sure what effect it has with inbred degenerates, at least they wouldn’t bathe in it. The brotherhood of the chair sounded like a load of Robin gets.

Rest assured that you will get more rubbish.

Broadmarsh used to be a lovely little shopping centre, under cover bus station, lockers to store luggage if you were catching the national express bus later, Wilkos, wimpy, lovely model kit shop, few decent Poundland type shops, and lots of other shops, then signs went up about redevelopment with pretty images , then all the shops closed down, demolition started, Covid hit, and I believe the owners went bankrupt, … must admit, not been to Nottingham since late 2019

The intro must have given people from Nottingham the same feeling New Yorkers get when they see famous building there get destroyed in films

My mother took me to Gem in the 1960,s when it first opened. I remember she thought it was unsafe because it had no windows, she was scared there might be a fire and people would be trapped. Then one day there was an IRA bomb scare whilst we were in there, and everyone had to file out calmly. That was the last time we went, my mother went back to shopping on Melton Road, at the Corner Shop and Slades the greengrocer, after that.

Post war architecture is nothing short of vandalism

Shopping malls suck the energy and joy out of a city almost as much as modern architecture does.

When I first saw it on my way to Loughborough, I just shrugged it off saying could be just a coincidence. I’m delighted to discover indeed Batman’s Gotham City is connected to Gotham, Nottingham thru Washington Irving.

I was born just off Crocus Street ... over 6 decades ago.. when Nottingham was a great place to live ... Was...??

I had a Saturday job there in 1980. Great camaraderie!

Nottingham city council demolished a street with 1000 years of history to build a concrete monstrosity that they knocked down after 50 years just before going bankrupt. good job boys 👍

had lot of fun at Broadmarsh banks on my bmx

I have lived in Nottingham all my life and the broadmarsh shopping centre was always classed as the dirty little outcast it was a filthy place that always held the "lower quality" branded stores. The trouble with the place was the way it was a kind of gate keeper to all of Nottingham city centre for people coming from the South. Many people just used it as a thoroughfare to get to the good part of the city. It didn't help with being so close to that dirty diesel filled bus station which gave it a distinctive smell all the time. It suffered massively from a lack of investment it was pretty much doomed from the early 2000's. I don't like what it looks like now but I am glad it has been pulled down.

Situals was the place to go!

Great points, though if you seriously think in-person retail is dead, then go to Meadowhall - like going back a few years but in a good way. Nottingham's public transport has been going downhill very recently, and has turned away drivers who used to come in from nearby rural towns until parking went up to £5 an hour. We need a park but also a smaller leisure centre in the Broadmarsh area to get the best of both worlds

all weirdos live in st annes....and if your not a wierdo youll end up being a weirdo

I was store manager of Freeman Hardy Willis in the Broadmarsh centre 1975 / 1976 and it was the most exciting retail venue I have ever managed. The centre promotions brought customers in by the droves which enabled me to double my targets week in and week out. So much so It was enough to catapult my career to some of the largest stores in the country such as Birmingham and Newcastle. Lunch in the Wimpy, fantastic staff and bulging tills, they were some of the happiest days of my career.

Broadmarsh was half empty by the time it had closed - even if the centre had been rebuilt I don’t think it would have been any better

I did my midwifery in The Meadows in the 70s It was being built on by the council and was a mix of old slums and newly built slums> i learnt a great deal more than midwifery that year. Colleagues informed us that St Ann's was worst being completely old slums

L is for Labour / L is for Lice

In 2018 i worked on the new houses and had dealings with the existing drains and noticed in the foul drain system there was a constant flow of clean water that you don,t normaly see in these drains. Who knows it could of been the overflow of the old well

Good presentation and very good poetry recitals. I lived in the Meadows as a child in 1972. Apart from the Bosworth playing field near the school - there was very little greenery.

These vids are great. Do more, please.

thank you for the video! very informative

...and now you walk down Lister Gate, most of the shops have closed, the doorways turned into camps by the homeless...

There are a lot of high end retail jewellers in Nottm. Someone's got some money somewhere.

Next you'll be telling me The Park used to be a park!

How are the mighty fallen.

went there 1 xmas never again 2 hours to get out of the carpark bedlam,

This is my home town. It's so sad I cannot visit the well.

Well done my dude!!!

Im from Nottingham and Broad Marsh really was dire, much like everywhere else in Nottingham honesty. The worst thing about Nottingham for me is the plethora of terrible people that live hers, ruining it for everyone else. Also, Nottingham has so much potential but the council refuses to do anything decent.

Your a Diamond 💎 10/10

Sean from the tesco here, keep them coming!! Really good

I knew even at an early age that broadmarsh would go even in 1973.. I still went shopping there but then but I had a feeling it was inferia to the Victoria centre..

Just did shopping there yesterday. I like that shop and the cafe