Photographs of Nottingham Castle

Locations:
Nottingham Castle, Nottingham^[info] (52.949698, -1.154546 [Google Maps] [maps.live.com] [multimap])
Bottle Lane, Nottingham (52.952959, -1.146475 [Google Maps] [maps.live.com] [multimap])

Tags: Art, Britain, Buildings and Architecture, Daffodil, England, Europe, Family, Flowers, Monuments, Nottingham, Nottingham Castle, Parents, Plants, Pub, Statues and Sculpture, Wildlife and Nature

Dates: started Sunday, 27th March 2005

Despite being Nottingham born and bred, I'd never been on the guided tour under the Castle - the caves known as "Mortimer's Hole". So on a trip back to the city (when I still lived in Chichester), my folks finally took me. As well as looking at spooky caves and dungeons, you also get to hear a lot about the history of Nottingham, including the Saxon foundation (at the Lacemarket nearby) and the start of the Civil War (the raising of the Royal Standard at Standard Hill near the Castle - apparently no-one took much notice and they moved on).

There's also some photographs of the Queen Elizabeth pub on Bottle Lane - just before it got knocked down.