Nottingham City Centre 1972

A short film of some Nottingham City Centre locations shot in 1972. It starts in the Old Market Square. The we see the new Victoria Centre. A scan over towards the Meadows from the Castle is next, then to the Victoria Clock Tower and flats under construction.

[@MsCharlieBrown78]

I moved from Lincolnshire to Nottingham in 1986, yet feel as though I'm a true born and raised Notts girl. It's good to see most of the buildings in this video still around the city centre today. I love Nottingham.

[@studentstudent6897]

MsCharlieBrown78 (Charlie Rae) Yes, I’m surprised about that where most of buildings are the same when I moved to my country. I left Nottingham city at the end of January 2019 after I finished my PhD in civil engineering and now I’m very miss it to see it again with the most kind people.

[@chilledgamingandchiptunes]

This video popped up on my feed for absolutely no reason, so I decided to watch it, and when I scrolled through the comments, it's crazy to see the top comment is from my own sister from 6 years ago 😅 I could have sworn we moved here in Feb '87 though, sis.

[@helterskelter7422]

Born in Nottingham & worked in Nottingham. As a teenager I loved shopping @ 'Chelsea Girl' , 'The Body Shop' and 'The Bus Stop'. Remember also when younger shopping with my Mum @ 'Burton's' food store along side the Council House. Happy memories.

[@sallycatlin5903]

Thanks for sharing this. Did 2 years at Clarendon College starting in 1972. This video brought back a lot of good memories.

[@brilliantshawn]

Lived there near to Univ of Nottingham, Lace Street for 1 year. And I would say one of the best time of my life. I fell in love with nottingham. People were so nice and welcoming. I've been treated so well by my colleagues, except one who was a racist. Transport system is best. Old buidings and pubs inside caves is just so amazing. I love all the pubs there specially the canal house. I would visit again once more for sure. The city has preserved it's old buildings so well. Thanks Nottingham for all the wonderful times.

[@ENGLISHCHIEF1]

You must off your head. The city is destroyed. Even today they are knocking ten bells of shit out it....

[@mattski73]

I was born in Nottingham the following year, thank you for posting!

[@MyWorldThroughALens]

Thanks for sharing! I like watching old amateur footage of cities, you get the real perspective from the people who lived and visited these places. It's great that the memories are not lost in the attic and are here for the world to see

[@motormouthalmighty]

AW! IT USED TO BE SO GOOD!

[@anthonyhowarth1609]

Love it, takes you back

[@suze243]

my god!!!! this is the year I was born..... Nottingham stayed the same right throiugh my childhood..... cheers for the memories :)

[@ivanbeavon9050]

Great to see the market square when it was a welcoming communal space a far cry from the faceless baron version we have today 😢

[@crazyleyland5106]

Good to see a few buses. Nottingham had their rear engined double deckers fitted with unique bodywork, custom designed to the Corporation's own specification.

[@nigelaw8814]

thanks for loading this. It brought back some memories - I left Nottingham in 1974. Music is a bit irritating - but you can always turn the sound down!

[@forestdad]

Excellent video-thanks for sharing

[@andysinski6294]

The year i was born, remember the city so well growing up and meeting by the lions 🦁 👍

[@SIMpleSIM6]

Love this. The year I was born and I live right in the city centre now. The shot of the Vic Centre clock tower made me smile as I've just posted a vid of that road junction flooded. :)

[@christopherbusby1726]

The poor Victoria Station Clock tower now standing alone and forlorn among ugly concrete slabs. Victoria Centre architect Clive Swift, What were You thinking of... ??

[@paulrichards6826]

The Victoria Station was such a beautiful building. Sad to see it destroyed. What were the so called "planners" thinking. ,??!! Idiots !!!

[@LPCLASSICAL]

Thanks for posting. I cam to live in the old meadows in 1972 when I was 8 - so this brings back memories. But the queen victoria statue was in the OMS when I arrived and I did not see it in this film.

[@chrisrobinson3792]

My dad helped to move it to the engagement when he worked for William woodsend

[@johnross2924]

And to think just 7 years later I would be stood in slab Square as a 12 year old watching forest players with the European Cup 😁

[@christophernolan9994]

We go on about the change but 70 % of that film is still here instantly recognisable

[@GamingFunps4andxboxone]

good old Nottingham

[@zen-xb7xq]

I left Bramcote Hills to go overland to Australia in 1972 through a dozen countries and never returned but have good memories of the girls and times.

[@arkroyalrifemoonbasealpha6101]

I loved the 70s strikes and all and don`t get me started on change for the electric!

[@pinky-ud1rt]

God it looks so much better and easier back then 0

[@terry141186]

Lived in nottingham all my life. Don't get me wrong there are some beautiful places. But my god some of the architecture in the city is just dire. Victoria center flats being chief among them they knocked down victoria station to replace it with that grey concrete shit. Same as broadmarsh atleast they are finally doing something with that though. I really wish they would do something with the Great Northern Corn Warehouse on London Road its just a damn eyesore why the made it listed I will never know it should be brought down and redeveloped.

[@BornAnOldFart]

I get the feeling that Nottingham's town planners were only too pleased to be able to pick up where the Luftwaffe left off...

[@andrewtaylor5984]

I have always heard that the Luftwaffe could not find Nottingham as the area was so fogbound in the Second World War, hence I assumed that the city suffered little bomb damage. If the city suffered heavy bomb damage, I apologise, and it would never have been on the scale inflicted on Coventry and Plymouth, to name but two.

[@andrewtaylor5984]

Most major cities had a large goods depot, but many were demolished when freight facities were reduced, or even withdrawn. Many of those which survive are listed, although they are now mostly given over to other purposes. Many of them also display the railway company which owned them.

[@mickeytaker4255]

My dad could have been driving any one of the buses in the video 😁

[@bonearrowgroup]

mickey taker Amazing. I always wonder if anyone viewing this recognises themselves in my film.

[@mickeytaker4255]

@@bonearrowgroup I was 8 years old, and lived and grew up in Clifton with 5 brothers and 1 sister. Happy days

[@jddan9793]

God bless you mate x

[@andrewtaylor5984]

Thousand pities that this was done five years after the closure of Victoria Station. A number of commentators had not been thought of until after the station closed. Why you let this priceless asset close beats me. Nottingham's rail communications have been poor ever since, and the only remaining station is poorly sited for the City Centre. Nice to see a picture of Huntingdon Street Bus Station, closed 1972, replaced by a monstrosity full of fumes in the Victoria Centre, which I gather is now closed. The way the planners messed about with the city at this time was incredibly short-sighted, obliterating Arkwright Street altogether, and severing Carrington Street in several places for the Ring Road and Broad Marsh. I could never live in a city whose planners (and Dr Beeching) were hell bent on getting rid of the main railway station.

[@tonywebster8959]

Great shame centre of Nottingham is not like this now.

[@theeterminator1702]

Jesus.. probably the only places I remember is that area where the long bridge is & the Victoria centre

[@TomWhitchurch]

Hi, Nottingham City Transport are making a video to celebrate their longest serving drivers retirement(Started in 1974). Would we be able to use some of the bus clips from this video? Will include an on screen credit, and it's to be used on their Facebook page uploaded over the easter weekend. Thanks!

[@bonearrowgroup]

Yes no problem at all!

[@TomWhitchurch]

@@bonearrowgroup That's great thank you!

[@kimsmith4563]

I was 14,when this was filmed,i worked in turners shoe shop in victoria centre, i was a saturday girl,my sister was the manager,how time has flown by,and how shit nottingham has become

[@jacquelinebrewster2060]

Does anyone know what that statue is on Castle Road that the camera zooms in on at around 3'39"? It's not there any more is it?

[@gagiman7273]

Wow traffic still bad then

[@peterbearne7062]

Hi there, can ITV News Central use this video on-air please with an on-screen credit? Thanks Peter Bearne

[@bonearrowgroup]

Yes no problem..when will it be shown?

[@peterbearne7062]

That’s great. Thanks very much. It will be on Nov 9th

[@bobtudbury8505]

remember it all well. does anyone have a film / photo of tug wilson?

[@MrPhllo]

Brilliant days back then

[@idoliketrees]

Hi, may i use this with a credit for my university project? Thank you!

[@bonearrowgroup]

You can indeed

[@daveabbott]

Was working in Jessops at the time of this film and was involved in the move from King St into the Centre - wonder where my old girlfriend is now (Cat)?

[@bigbaty]

Anything on kilgs meadow road

[@bonearrowgroup]

Sorry this all I have at the moment..

[@davekingsbury8475]

Road markings? Yeah, what happened to them?

[@simongleaden2864]

What's the neo-Gothic building at 2:51?

[@AnotherHerring]

NTU Arkwright building on Shakespeare St , formerly technical school and public library

[@Mrkhm1988]

nice..I am from Kuwait and lived in Nottingham & Derby two years ..., but i have a question why from that time until now Nottingham still 85% same??..

[@bonearrowgroup]

Mrkhm1988 Some buildings are very old and we like to keep them..but things are changing now very quickly in recent years. Also I have been to Kuwait, very hot!

[@Mrkhm1988]

bonearrowgroup ooh really , when have you been there ,,,in Kuwait ....actally now become hotter than any other time befor ,the lowest heat on the mid of night is 42c and greatest heat is 58c .....we are burning now

[@richardparkin7868]

Ur the shithead that thinks Muslims will rule....fuck you all

[@hanz8542]

Richard Parkin crack head

[@retrowrath9374]

Mrkhm1988 Thanks for proving what we thought, go look at the marches in the UK and other counties against Islam, 50,000, 100,000+ marches, right wing parties getting in and gaining ground, they will limit and slow you down, unlike the pussies and traitors that are in now.

[@lisamorris7491]

Much better back then 😊 not so many idiots about

[@BetterSkatez3]

England before it was torn apart in the name of political correctness.

[@lendoggtheking]

what the hell are you babbling about? the air was so bad it turned the buildings black! ive just come here from a video showing a woman living in st annes in 1969 who's family income was less than 1000 2020 pounds per month, the streets looked like the luftwaffa had just left! She complained that her furniture turned green cause of the damp!!

[@Jefferson1969-u4s]

And mass uncontrolled Muslim immigration.

[@bizzievidz4577]

Check Out My Video, 'You Know You're From Nottingham When' 😀

[@justdansongs]

That's not Nottingham it's Jewish old Nottingham at 1998