Nottingham Castle

old sandstone caves. ... all blocke off.

lace market built in 1400's

georgeon building now museum on site on nottingham castle

Better weather this morning, there is still little snow on the ground.
Nottingham castle is really not much to talk about. too many centuries spent on the loosing side of a civil wars will do that. they do have a really good history display in the ground floor. But the building is only built in the Victorian era.

Nottingham is very much an industrial town, from the 1850's. One of the industries was lace making. This is in a most wonderful old 14 c building. So now I have some lace for my table.

Nottingham

Yesterday i thought i would tour around but the weather is not cooperating, more snow and Nottingham comes to a standstill.

Nottingham is built on Sandstone caves, even the local shopping centre has caves underneath.
in these caves are an old tannery from 1509. Now some people may know that tanning takes lots of strong chemicals , but guess what they used back in 1509? Urea, then they went and rinsed the fleeces out in the local river water. great for drinking don't you think?

then I went to look at the courts of justice. An old courthouse and jail. it was just amazing what we did to people back a few hundreds years ago. shipping of people to colonies. Isolating people just drove them crazy. A depressing jail, all brick and dark back then . now its well laid out with lots of information.

Then of course i had to indulge in some more retail therapy on the way back to where I was staying. The Igloo hostel, at the back of the Victoria bus station. a wonderful old Victorian house , well located.