Nottingham Leasing

Did You Know?

Nottingham is a city in central Midlands region. It’s known for its role in the Robin Hood legend and for the hilltop Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, rebuilt many times since the medieval times. In the Lace Market area, once the centre of the world’s lace industry.

Many celebrities and well-known personalities have a long association with Nottingham – the Boot family, founders of Boots the Chemists pharmacy, Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson, poet Lord Byron, fashion designer, Sir Paul Smith, and Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice.

There's a mysterious metal line that runs down the middle of Old Market Square in Nottingham; it marks the wall that used to divide the animal market from the grain and commercial market way back in the day. 

Every single Bramley apple is descended from the same tree in a Nottingham garden. Bramley apples are so popular in Japan that in 2012 a group of Japanese tourists flew to the UK specifically to visit that tree.

The Hollywood hit film 'The Dark Knight Rises' features Wollaton Hall in Nottingham as the Wayne Manor. Though Wollaton Hall had always enjoyed great popularity as a city attraction. 

One of the most unusual facts about Nottingham is where its name comes from. Around 600AD, the town was under the control of an Anglo-Saxon tribe called the Snotingas, where the chief was called ‘Snot’, meaning caves. They called the town ‘Snotengaham’, or literally ‘the homestead of Snot’s people’.

Now, many inns across the country clamber for this title so we can’t be 100% sure it’s definitely the oldest, however Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem claims to have been established in 1189. It sits beneath the cliff just under Nottingham’s historic castle

McCartney’s first project after he left The Beatles was a rock band called Wings. Their first string of gigs was an impromptu tour of the UK’s universities. They intended to just show up and perform for whoever happened to be there. After being turned away in a market town in Leicestershire, they made their way over to a more receptive University of Nottingham – where admission to the show was 50 pence.