Market Square

[Frank 13]

Nice one Red - but I had to turn me 'puter upside down to see it

How much did the ride cost?

[Limey 242]

How much did the ride cost?

It's five quid accordin t' web page!

[Beefsteak 305]

Just a couple from the 'eye' (I got carried away and took 95!!!!) great views (And as Nick said you could do without the stupid commentary especially if you ain't got a clue who they are) But it's well worth a fiver (We went round 7 times in all)

[radfordred 6,284]

You can see the tree on this Live webcam in Nottingham's Old Market Square from 8am until 6pm

http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/www/marketsquare/webcam.asp

Great link Nick .Weird to think I was standing there on Saturday

(P.S. I just watched it for 2 mins updating it myself every few seconds and none of the workmen moved other people did so I could tell it was live!!!!!!!!!)

Well done to CLINT on Nottingham's market squares live web cam .

[BAZZER 10]

that's brill,,,,, if I read it right,,,,, is that 10:00 at night ? It do say up to 8:00p.m.

are there any more around Nottingham ?

if I can't make it up there soon, at least I can show my boy sommat..

Baz

[BAZZER 10]

If anyone's interested, here is a link to Penzance webcam (in fact, even if no one is interested,,,, here is the link,,,,)

http://www.simonrodda.com/netcams/8000/index.html

1/ Penzance main street (Market Jew Street). The 'famous' Penzance railway station is on the left. The illuminated sign says "Ross Bridge Closed". There is a small wet/dry dock along the prom. The prom leads to Newlyn, Mousehole & Lands End,,,,, so tis a bit of a bind when this is closed. It closes when they need to get a ship in & out of the dock etc,,,, but it's closed for 4/6 weeks now, for repairs.

2/ Mounts Bay. This is from just to the side of the Station, panning across the 'Bay' to St Michaels Mount & Marazion. Incy Dentally, there is a very sinilar mount in France called Mont St Michel. The Lizard is just out of shot to the right.

Don't know where the white stuff came from,,,,,,, tis a bit alien to us,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Beefsteak 305]

Snow , in Cornwall,? that's it I'm not moving there............LOL

[radfordred 6,284]

¿ punoɹɐ ǝɯıʇ puoɔǝs ǝɥʇ ǝʎǝ ǝɥʇ uo uǝǝq ǝuoʎuɐ

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

I still think the current version is a boring grey mass of flat nothingness.

For those who aren't old enough to have been there, this is what it looked like when it had a bit of character

[Paulus 541]

!clapping! Slab square when it had character, & characters...........anyone recall Albert Brown, frequented Yates's Wine Lodge? Not a personal friend of mine!! but each to their own, as they say !rotfl!

[Limey 242]

I do believe there were those who objected just as vehemently to that version when it was constructed! I think that the moniker "slab square" was not intended to be complimentary!

Perhaps, in fifty years time, our successors will be lamenting the loss of the current version?

[mick2me 3,033]

I walked across the square today.

It has turned into 'Tent City'

There are a load of protesters camped on it!

Tents set to move as protest continues

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Tents-set-protest-continues/story-13631332-detail/story.html

[Ayupmeducks 1,730]

Yes going back before it was "Slab Square" there used to be markets held there, they were moved to Sneinton and the one between Huntingdon Street and Parliament Street. There are photos of the old Market Square in Nottingham 1897-1947 book.

[poohbear 1,360]

And a helluva market it was too...

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

And until the 1920s Goose Fair used to be there as well

[radfordred 6,284]

Hanging in there !!

[.... 23]

Have to say this year's Christmas Market in the square and thereabouts is a real turn-off. Not much Christmas about it, more like Goose Fair with artificial snow. The huge ride in the middle of the square completely detracts from the atmosphere which was previously provided by the skating rink. On the plus side, the Swedish Briska perry in the 'Narnia'-type bar is very good - at a price of £3.80 a pint though (yowch!)

[jackson 301]

What a colourful jumble the above photograph compared with the black and white ones previous - especially Cliff Ton's photograph that looks like it's from the 50's. How interesting this is.

The sophisticated shops: the classy 'Dolcis Shoes' and the memory of 'Griffin and Spalding', Lyons Tea Shop tucked somewhere amongst the buildings.

The double-decker buses; the number 32 ran from here and took me up the long and winding Woodborough Road to visit my grandma on Wells Road, Mapperley (it seemed like another land).

Note the famous 'Mikado Cafe'. During the 1950's one well-known Nottingham clippie, name of Hazel Nutt would meet her friends from the Nottm. City Transport Dept in here every Saturday morning. They'd wear their best clothes - she told me - and sit at the window, sup their coffee and take the scene!

[Mango 6]

!clapping! Slab square when it had character, & characters...........anyone recall Albert Brown, frequented Yates's Wine Lodge? Not a personal friend of mine!! but each to their own, as they say !rotfl!

I remember Albert Brown, and Tug Wilson always seemed to be standing at the police box outside Yates, my mum used to tell us that if we didn't behave then a policeman would come and fetch us away and Tug was so huge (well he was when I was a kid) that if he even glanced in my direction I got a guilty conscience!!

[piggy and babs 544]

ah yeh old slab square it had to be the sest and so many memories for so many of us every one you had to meet in town it was always somewere in the square, i remember on more than one occation arranging to meet guys on each corner of the square and then ridind all the way round the square on sombodys bike and waving bye bye to them then off down the hart for the night, yeh not nice but fun at the time. albert brown often did my hair for me before i went out for the night 10 mins flat and he would stlye and pinn it up for me always had a pocket full of hairgrips and a little spray bottle of hair lacourand the stories he would tell you while he was doing your hair were amazing , he always said certain people paid him not to publish is memories and he made a lot more than if he had wrote the book and it was a best seller, now he was a real nottingham chatecter if ever there was one.always liked tug wilson firm but fairand had a goodsense of humore too once you got to know him, and in the 60s all the other different charecters that used to congrgate in the square mods ,rockers ,hippies , hells angels, the black guys and gels who all used to come down from the ad lib at the end of the night singing , all the mowtown ans northern soul music oh those were the days and nights ofcourse,

[jackson 301]

I'm going to take some time and read your posting Babs when I return from the 'Broadway' later on today; it looks interesting.

[hippo girl 1,995]

Morning Babs, so true that all of us used the square as a meeting point......the mods, rockers, hippies and all!!!!! Never any trouble and all in the headiness of youth..how many of us had that first date, meeting at the left lion...and why was it always the left one ?

[jackson 301]

At one time, everybody in Nottingham knew Albert Brown.

[mudgie49 401]

Hi babs, often wondered who that strange gal was waving,now after all this time I found out it wasn't me you were waving at.

[mgread1200 141]

We don't go into the city much nowadays but when we do it's usualy a tram from Phoenix Park to Slab Square, first place I always look at is The Bell, while ever its there you are reminded of old Nottingham. Great Porterhouse steak there back in the sixties, sometimes on pay night (fridays) I would go down straight from work on the Albany and have one.