Portrait Of A City - Nottingham - 1993
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- Опубліковано 24 кві 2020
- A video written, presented and narrated by Dennis McCarthy.
It opens with a brief history of the city and shots from a drive round the city centre.
St Mary's Church, The Lace Market and Adam's Building, The Lace Hall, The Shire Hall.
Clifton Estate, Edwalton, West Bridgford, Wollaton Park Estate, Bilborough Prefabs, Bulwell, Mapperley Park, St Ann's, Sneinton.
Sneinton Market and Victoria Market and the Cattle Market.
Nottingham Evening Post, BBC East Midlands, Central ITV, BBC Radio Nottingham, Radio Trent and GEM AM.
Brian Clough getting the Freedom of The City.
Nottingham Forest FC and Notts County FC.
Nottingham Castle.
The Tales of Robin Hood.
The Robin Hood Festival.
Leslie Crowther, Dame Laura Knight, Bendigo, Albert Ball, Alan Sillitoe,
Watson Fothergill, Torvill and Dean, George Green and Green's Windmill,
William Booth and The Goodwill Centre, Jesse Boot,.
Nottingham University and Students Rag Week,.
The Trip To Jerusalem, Yate's Wine Lodge, The Salutation, The Royal Children, The Bell Inn, The Lion Hotel and its cave cellars.
The Savoy Cinema, The Showcase Cinema, The Odeon, The MGM (ABC) Cinema, The Broadway Cinema.
The Black Orchid, The commodore, The Palais de Dance (Ritzy), Astoria, Rock City, Madison's.
The Bowling Alley. The Albert Hall, The Royal Centre, The Theatre Royal, The Playhouse, The Coop Arts Theatre, The Lace Market Theatre.
Queen's Fish Bar, Nor Jahan, The Blue Nile with belly dancing, Ruen Thong, Summer Palace.
Chinese New Year dragon dancing, Caribbean Carnival, The Lord Mayor's Parade.
Nottingham to Skegness steam train ride. The Orient Express.
The Butterflies Park at Farnsfield, The Sherwood Forest Farm Park, The Model Aviation Museum,.
Tollerton (Nottingham) Airport, Crich Tramway Museum.
Trent Bridge, The Tamar Belle.
The Arboretum, Wollaton Hall and Park, The Riverside Festival, The Aviary.
The Goose Fair.
Never really realized then, but the 80s and 90s was a great time to live and be free. Compared to the shit 00s, even more so 2020😥
I just hope in another 20 years we do not look back saying how much better we still had it.
Absolutely,after the 90s went downhill
Nottingham became really bad in 00's but it is good nowadays, A lot of development around Hockley, Sneinton market areas, Victoria Centre referb etc, (Broadmarsh just seems to be cursed) it is a good city, There are a lot worse cities out there
@@tonyeff4447 No way! it all went sour after 2001, the modern world is unrecognisable compared to 15/20 years ago, the narcissism and clones have taken over the madhouse.
My dad sold our house in London in '79 and we left the country, just before the property boom of 80's and 90's; now i'm a penniless pauper in 2020 Bristol ! I agree; post 2000, this country has lost its charm : japanese cars everywhere, rotten property development projects etc etc.
You know you're old when this comes out and it doesn't even seem that long ago.
"The Broadmarsh shopping centre proves that Nottingham can maintain two large shopping centres successfully".. That quote didn't age well.
No but it aged quite a while didn't it? I agree that Broadmarsh looks sad inside now. Let's see how the new development affects things.
That time travelling secret shopper and his tricksterish ways...
Jack M it’s getting done up now tho
@Cheryl Yeah, agree with all that.
@@Amethyst_Friend R.I.P broadmarsh
A fabulous film by a man who genuinely loved the city. It all feels so different now, and I'm sure many us would love to go back in time for just a day and spend it wandering around the Nottingham of 1993. Magical times!
I just stumbled upon this after living here since 2006. It has changed so much even since then but I'm reserving judgement if it's for better or worse. I moved in when I didn't have children, I was younger and free so that definitely has a role to play in my perception of the city. I can definitely agree with loving to go back in time though. Even though I'm not from around here, not even from UK I'd certainly love to spend some time in Nottingham of the 80s and 90s.
Born in Nottingham and I'll die here. Must say Nottingham now isn't a speck on Nottingham in the 80s and 90s.
Me to
What are the main differences compared to then?
@@ajs41 the people. And the layout has changed dramatically in the past 15 years
Agreed.
I miss living in my home town Every day so much, one day I’ll come back home.
So interesting to see how Nottingham developed in these decades! I'm not from Nottingham, not even from the UK but it is truly fascinating being able to study and live in such a wonderful and diverse place - a place that now I can call my second home. Thank you, Nottingham, for your kindness.
Hi Lucas, really pleased that you feel this way and feel welcome in Nottingham. Thank you in turn for choosing to come here. :@)
Its a great city and you would enjoy a visit 😊
Who remembers Selectadisc? I would spend many an hour trawling through the indie section.
Yes I do, it was a cool shop. How about The Bomb? That's the place I miss most!
My Dad called it Selectascratch lol
What is that? A disc store?
Me too.. A great record shop I loved it..Had such a great variety of music
Back in the days when they were on Arkwright Street. Two buses away from High Pavement Grammar School. A journey well spent.
Am 51 and remember most of these images...we seemed to have ripped the heart and soul from my home city..be safe
I loved this video..wherever I go in the world my heart is always in Nottingham...always will be...
Trust me mate it ain't no heaven 😂
Shotingham !!
Nottingham was absolutely fantastic back in the nineties, its hardly recognizable now. It's so very very sad. 😢
1982-3 Yates Wine Lodge, the Trip, Palais, Selectadisc, City Hospital, West Bridgeford all seems so civilized back then. Thx for the brilliant production.
Happy memories of a city I barely recognise any more. And I don't mean the buildings. I mean the soul. I was 25 in 1993. Absolutely loved it then. I'm actually enjoying the relative peace of lockdown and the feel of the streets without dodging cars and breathing in polluted air.
Unfortunately this has been a trend all over the world, as more and more people own cars and traffic chokes up. This pandemic has at least showed us the great benefits of less pollution. I hope we can all have a green revolution going forward.
Notts became a dump. It lost its people.
Watching in 2021 5000 miles away from my beloved, much-missed hometown! I was 8 when this was filmed. Such happy memories of the singing clock in the Vic Centre! 💘🏹 Haven't been home for two years and miss my beloved Nottingham so much.
where do you live now then?
Just seen this for the first time. Dennis McCarthy always a great presenter on Radio Nottigham. As a Nottingham lad living in NZ it's very nostalgic
We would put this on at work during the early 90s and laugh at how disgustingly racist the horrible old people were then we would have a spliff and listen to some chacka demus and pliers on heat wave
That was excellent 👏 I used to live in Wollaton and our garden backed onto the park and the beautiful deer were always around. Shame I was at a silly age and didn’t appreciate it! Even so, lots of great memories 👍
Great film. How many other Nottingham people were saying “that isn’t there anymore” and “Those shops have gone”. Great memories. 🙏
The Odeon...I remember queuing for Star Wars with my older brothers and the excitement going to see a film in showing in Odeon 1 .
Ikr
Born, raised and still reside in Nottingham... This has made my evening!! Thanks Nigel!
Glad you enjoyed it
Coming back to nottingham from forest away matches on Saturday nights were special.
Great nights out - walking home over hockley and up Carlton hill via numerous drinking holes.
Magic times.
Saturday nights after having a few pops , taking a dip in the fountains . Usually not by choice either 😂 happy days. Miss those days.
I have memories of these times. I was 6 in 1993. People don't change but the pace of technology certainly has..this is a time where computers and the internet were just starting to become widespread and the cars were basically shoeboxs with gold trim and "mobile" phones were bricks. I would still rather live in those times than the present...
In 1993 barely anyone had internet of any kind, hahah. I was 21 that year and might have heard the word "world wide web" for the first time then or the year after. 1993 was also the first time I was encountered with that device called a "mouse" because I didn't have a computer yet at home, even though I was a student at the university. Internet started to become more widespread in the late 90s and especially early 00s. I got my first computer with an internet connection in July 2001.
Nice to hear Dennis again.
Pity Labour has destroyed the heart out of Nottingham, most of what is shown has gone.
And Rock City was awesome.
Hell yes!
Dam Right!
I was there for the opening night , headlining The Undertones.
And I must confess , I was there when it was called the "Heart of the Midlands". Old bastard that I am . !!
I was there the last night it was open
I lived in Nottingham from 1988 to 1993. I never realsed it was so old-fashioned!
Also, seeing how busy Broadmarsh and the adjoining Lister Gate used to be in the 90s really brings back memories. Of course before online shopping really became a thing you simply *had* to go into town to get anything. Clumber street, and particularly the pedestrian crossing at the northern end, linking to the Victoria Centre, was always absolutely rammed full of people.
Notts was so much fun in the early 90s, feel blessed to have been brought up here. Great pirate radio stations too !
I loved the Vic Centre food court. That sort of thing is quite popular now so it’s a shame it was closed down. This film is great :)
where abouts was it in the centre?
@@mol9600 Roughly where House of Fraser is now.
Could never work out why they got rid of it. Was great when I was a student.
Fantastic . Came across this by accident . Took me back so much , didn't realise how time passes . Nottingham at it's best .Thank you , what a great way to pass a lock down lunchtime .
Cheers, it's a real time capsule isn't it.
I would do and give up anything-
To go back go the good ole days !!
Moved 6 years ago to Nottingham and absolutely love it.
Wouldn't move anywhere else in the UK
A lot of my past in this video. I went to William Booth and Jesse Boot school, my 1st nightclub at Madisons. Loved Bendigo as a kid .My dad used to clean the windows on The Royal Concert Hall, now my son and brother clean them to this day. Loved this!!!
This was amazing. Thank you so much for posting. I was in my final year at Clarendon College doing Drama and always thought that Nottingham was at it's most vibrant during that time. Went back a few months ago and was shocked to see Broadmarsh gone along with whole streets of closed down shops. So sad too see the city decline so much.
It's coming back.
Slowly.
Old Clarendon college now also demolished.
Wow, I was one of the theatre technicians' back then, sorry to see the place torn down last year a new school is coming in its place. I'm now based at the city hub, broadmarsh is still a sorry site!
I was doing Drama at Clarendon then too. Small World.
Jeff’s clothes shop down Hockley in the early 70s to get my Brutus and Ben Sherman shirts who also remembers that?
A Jeff's on alfreton road too.
One of the great radio voices, my mum loved his Sunday show
My favourite city and my year of birth so it’s lovely to see how Nottingham looked 27 years ago!!!!
Genuinely impressed Summer Palace haven't bothered to update their signage for at least 29 years!
Wow... to see my hometown in the past, thanks for this.
Great film.. I worked for Nottingham City Treasury back in 1993.. so many good memories.. I must show this film to my daughter born in 1993...😍
I think Nottingham city council needs you back!
Why do i feel like notts in 1993 was so much beautiful than the current ones
2 things I'd say: other towns and cities caught up economically etc nearby (trickle down effect of EU geography and projects- not that I love the EU particularly, but 90s 2000s was a high point locally prosperity wise) and second this whole bloody country is just not a fun place to be right now. I'm crying with u mate. : (
@@GyitMulhaneski-GloriousYears and that was that
Nob off
90s Notts looks grim, the modern was is way nicer
It was.
This is great! Thankyou for uploading it!
My god, how it's changed. I moved to Nottingham when I was 17, lived a decade then moved on, but 2 years ago I went back to Broadmarsh and was shocked at what has happened to it. It was quiet and so run down. I didn't stay for long.
Wow! 👌 brings back so many memories watching this video....thanks for sharing ☺
I spent my early childhood and went to school in Nottingham leaving in 1975. My brother Tony worked on the Nottingham Evening post. We lived in West Bridgford and Redhill. This video brought back many happy memories. Fantastic times of a wonderful city like no other.
Loved this. Thanks for posting 👍
many thanks for uploading this, one of the best videos i have ever seen on youtube. For someone like myself that grew up in 90's Nottingham,this video is a real treasure. They just dont make documentaries like this nowadays either!
Yeah you're right! I think it's because back then infomercials were a thing which were really long and distributed to people on videotape. But with the advent of the internet and people themselves making content the documentaries were never the same.
This is great thanks so much for uploading this video to UA-cam
Lovely to see this. Thank you for uploading. Nottingham is the best city.
Also nice to see the city looking lively.
Oh how wonderful ! I have very fond memories of Nottingham !!
Great viewing - great documentary. Thanks for uploading : )
The year I retired from Imperial Tobacco and set up Classic Days , rail tour operators. I organised the Jolly Fisherman trip to Skegness with 80080, great day out
Nottingham has changed so much 😭
And not for the better.
Thank you for this, really interesting to see the Nottingham I know a few years back
Thanks so much for this upload
Great video, thanks for putting it up
Before the millennium and internet destroyed the city center ☹️ those were the best times
Tremendous documentary, thank you for posting.
Absolutely love this video and Nottingham ❤️
I used to love going to the mushy peas Stand in Vicki centre
I was in town every weekend back then. Great times.
This is great, thank you.
I used to travel from Lincoln to Nottingham every weekend, to buy records. Selectadisc, Arcade records, etc...
The street traders were brilliant.
Bobs records
Selectadisc / Arcade Records! Wow! Blast from the past!!! 👍
@@k-yk-y5044 Indeed !
I went to Arcade Records for the first time I 'think' it was 1983, and myself and my friend were the only two white people in the shop, which had about 15 black lads in there.
We were only young teenagers (14) and I was a bit nervous, but I need not have worried. There was a DJ playing records in the shop, and I went up to ask the shop assistant "can I have this one playing now" and bam he went straight to it. I think I ended up buying 5 records just from hearing stuff being played in the shop that day, and everyone seemed friendly, and a few of the lads spoke to us, which was great.
I went there once a month for the next couple of years, and never had any trouble at all.
I went to Selectadisc in the early 90's to buy rave music, and again, it was a great shop, everyone was friendly.
I did always have a look in HMV too, near the Broadmarsh, but obviously it didn't have the proper underground tunes in there, just some of the more commercial rave tunes.
Happy days !
The only trouble we ever had really (as 14 year olds) was when we went to skin a joint up on the skate park near the Hyson Green flats, and somebody started shooting at us with an air rifle, the twats lol !
Peace..
@@DjNikGnashers 😂 Those were the days!!!
Ah slab square! Born and raised here to watching from Aspley. Cheers
A-S-P
had a messy couple of nights in the beacon
🤣
Used to love browsing in Beatties model shop in the late seventies as a kid, pure magic and then years later spent equally as long browsing in Rob's record mart.
I was born and raised in Nottingham and I still live here, I’m now 34 years old and I remember that Sneinton market scene like yesterday. It actually made me emotional, thank you for uploading a fantastic documentary.
just brilliant had two encounters with the brilliant Dennis when i won a competition to represent my school Walter Halls junior school in a nature quiz and then about 7 yrs later with my band on his show just a brilliant guy
Fascinating film, which brought back a lot of memories of working for Nottingham City Council. I organised the Wollaton element of Brian Clough's Freedom Day and The Lord Mayor's Show 1988-1991. Good times.
And Brian Clough brought the European Cup to Nottingham in 1979 and 1980
Mushy peas in Victoria Market 👍👍 still go there now 😂
I remember Victoria centre mushy peas when I lived there
Woah, wait a minute, that Aldi at Castle Retail Park was there in 1993!? I used to live on Rafdord Boulevard, Ive been in there countless times. I'd never even heard of Aldi in 1993! Not by a long shot! I didn't realise they had been in this country for that long. I also didn't imagine that that particular Aldi store would be so "historic"!
Haha I love how when he talks about an American restuarant it shows a place called "CHILDRENS WORLD"
That's what I was thinking. It's only the past 15 years i've seen them in that format :)
Loved the in-depth stories, the keen commentary of Bob Coles, and the groovy music throughout. The camera work was so woeful that it was actually funny (especially loved the camera man’s hair flicking across the lens at times).
Great two hours!
Ah the Turf Tavern, used to be a great pub in the early 80's!
21:05 I've lived in Nottingham since I was 2 years old (the family moved up from London in early 1989), and as such I am very familiar with almost all of it, however I had no idea that Aldi was here so long ago. My first recollection of an Aldi is the one in Long Eaton (where we moved to in 1997) .
Good grief, what a blast of nostalgia. Notts CC need to realise what history they own and step up their game as it's loosing right now. Missed opportunity about the unlicensed radio in Notts as that was a huge influence during the late 80s and early to mind 90s
I love this video!
1993 - the year I started Uni. Fell for the myth that there was 3:1 ratio of women to men. Still had a great 3 years there.
Should have gone to Broomfield college mate!! 6:1 ratio there!!
Haha I'm from Nottingham and that myth prevailed for many years! No idea how it started.
I think it refers to size rather than number!
The Roman soldiers Helmet as said in this documentary , left at the Trip to Jerusalem Inn, just happens to be an English civil war 3 bar lobertail helmet . There is about a 1650 year difference
I did wonder about that, but they never let the facts get in the way of a good story at The Trip 😀
@@NigelKing Hi Nigel I am as good as an English civil war book . I have studied Oliver Cromwell and the civil war for exactly 50 years this year . I am also the proud owner of 3 original English civil war Helmets , 2 of them being 3 bar lobster tail helmets . So I think I know one when I see one. .A bit to late to tell the narater Dennis McCarthy . He died in 1993. Cheers mate .
@ 10:59 i remember coming to Arthur Johnson's as a kid, and i remember both of these guys. The one on the right used to look like that ITV pundit, Jimmy Greeves.
Its suffering like the rest of our cities, times are changing,thank you for posting this fascinating look back in time of one of the best .
Very interesting video.. I think u deserve more subs(559 isn’t much) started watching on my phone then watched the rest on tv
22:19 - That was the Wednesday 1st September 1993 edition (Issue number: 35,736) of the Nottingham Evening Post, although it is the midday edition seen being printed here. The version on the British Newspaper Archive is the Evening city edition which has a slightly different front page and slightly different news on it. I love how the page is put together like a jigsaw puzzle and that it has a negative like a photograph does.
On the front cover, the frogmen were still hunting for Lee Metcalfe when the midday edition was published, but sadly, the evening edition of that day's paper mentioned that a body had been found in the search. The article about Nottingham Omnibus (remember them?) "parodying" Nottingham City Transport's bus services and were causing a lot of Health and Safety concerns with the public remains the same in both. I for one, had never set foot inside an Omnibus vehicle at the time and I was always loyal to NCT.
Dennis McCarthy was my hero as a radio presenter - it was like a local institution had gone forever when he had passed away in January 1996.
I remember Dennis Mccarthy when he used to do little snippets of Notts and East Midlands news on the old Midlands Today which at that time was broadcast from Pebble Mill in Birmingham. He used to wear lots of stylish (for the early 70s anyway) suits! RIP Dennis Mccarthy - and I absolutely loooooooove Nottingham in 2024, always feel safe there and enjoy all the shops...Hockley is a wonderful neighbourhood with some great cafes. Bookwise on Goosegate is worth checking aaht....as is Doughnotts. Trams and buses so easy to use....and West Bridgford is wonderful!
This is great really interesting
Being back the tales of Robin Hood exhibition!!
Wow Vic looked so much better back in the day
I lived in Nottingham from year 1980 till 2005 live in york now
Good watching this mother, brings back memories 😄 x
I was born in Nottingham lived in the Top Valley Estate 1974-1979
4:43 I'm from the future. That museum actually exists now. It's called the National Justice Museum.
Love my home town
Me too ☺
Why don't you marry it then
same, i was born in notts and moved to sydney when i was 7, im 19 now. i wanna go back to notts and visit :(
I was nine years old in 93 how time has flown by
"Snottingham" ,yes I was taught that the S was dropped because the Normans had trouble with saying the sn together so it became Nottingham ,this wasn't adopted everywhere though ,which was a great relief to the people of Scunthorpe , lol. lovely old footage and informative , Thanks Nigel .
,😂😂
What a time to be alive. People looked genuinely happy. So many employment opportunities, so many shops/pubs/entertainment. Now the UK is just miserable.
Loved this. Thanks for posting. During the segment about Nottingham Evening Post, their headline was about a missing man called Lee. Does anyone have any further information on the story? Was he found?
I want to be 4 years old again
I know the feeling ☺ so many memories in 1993 👌
Be so nice to live this time again. Much more innocent and sensible time.
I want to be zero years old again
To do this shit all over again?
Excellent History
Oh my god I live in one of the houses they show on here! How mental
Yeah, what are the odds you'd live in a house.
@@DavidSmith-oy4of why so bitter at the sight of someone else's happiness? what I meant is that a house that had substantial focus in this documentary is now where I live and I think that's exciting. No need to be rude, is there?
@@raginisharan6771 it’s scary for me how much has changed since I was a kid
This is strange because it shows so many things I’d forgotten were a thing I’m not even that old either (at least I’d like to think I’m not)
Thanks Nigel. If only we knew cars bck then would ever become classics..haha Having said tht I've got a 1998 ford transit..it used to be a minibus but now, it my converted campervan..
11:41 yeah I’ve got a cossie, 4b4. The great Sierra love them.
Mushy peas in Victorian centre
This video is so endearing somehow and great advertising, I want to visit Nottingham in the 90's! Where do I get the tickets?
Interesting that a shopping mall was big news. I wonder how it is doing now as so many large malls in the US do not have the custom to stay open.
We deserve better than 2 hours of 1950’s ballroom smuzak
Omg so many memories...starting clubbing in the early 90s....one thing missing...Heatwave radio
..Arcade record shop x but thanks x
Yes you know that.
87.9 FM heatwave!!!
Fergus in arcade records too. Good old days.
The Lonesome soldier.... his lips are sealed
👌🏽
Another World was the best shop going.
Comic shop?
Just up from forbidden planet and page 45?
Or was another world the one in broad marsh opposite wimpy?
Damn you took me back to my childhood
Still have some of my comics from that era
@@marlonthomas8042 Aye the 4 storey one that sold comics, films, video games, pellet guns and all kinds of fun stuff.
@@joecrow7666 next to selectadisc 😍