Nottingham Then and Now 

Such a shame that the majority of old buildings with beautiful architecture in Nottingham were destroyed by the council for no reason other than to replace them with soulless concrete blocks. At least a few of them have survived for the time being.

I totally agree with some of the messages on here.To destroy historic buildings in Nottingham for the sake of it,is shameful.Watson Fothergill is Nottingham’s most famous architect,yet they tore down one of his most famous buildings,The Black Boy hotel in 1970,when so many people campaigned to save it.The Victoria train station,Drury hill,The flying horse inn,Arkwright street,destroyed.Then building the terrible Broad Marsh centre,effectively cutting off Lister gate from Arkwright street,and building the equally terrible Maid Marion Way,and destroying the historic almshouses and countless other buildings,shows how bad Nottingham City Council have been,THEN & NOW😡

Thank you Michael some wonderful memories of our home city,some things just did not need changing,Black boy hotel,for what we have now,truly truly shocking.

awsome pic,s there and takes me right back to the 1980s.

Wow, it's quite startling that somewhere such as 'Angel Row' has changed more now since 1981, than between the first picture (Edwardian period?) and 1981. A real eye opener into how drastically the city has changed since the early 80's. Remarkable.

Thank you, enjoyed

Very clever how you did that. Interesting to see how over time, the ornate Victorian architecture of buildings, has been replaced with tasteless unsightly concrete buildings. Such a shame!

Thankyou

you got a great pic of the east row. wow iv been dieing to see that.......

Fantastic photos. Loving the police telephone box outside Yates’s

Noticing how--on the whole--there are far fewer people out, and how much more space roads take up in the 2019 shots. More pedestrian only areas! More interesting variety of build design! More plants and trees!

Thank you for putting this together its great, the Facebook site Nottingham Way Back When would love to see this.

Great vide

thank you

Well Done..

Excellent production. I am not sure all the changes were an improvement.

Happy memories of my times in Nottingham, 64-67, 73-76. What was the name of the hotel in Long Row turned into the Littlewoods store? Was it the Black Boy?

Have to say, Parliament Street looks pretty grim - both in 1981 and in 2019. What on earth were they thinking??? .....or was it bombed in WW2?

It seems a lot busier back in 1981.

Same old story. Old historic buildings with character demolished so the proletariat could be turned into obedient stupid zombies. Grew up in Coventry, the same old story again while parts nostalgic Germany and Poland, for example, were restored to their former proud selves.

Too fast for me.

We made nottingham so ugly 😒