Nottingham Lace
WALKING TOUR
Date: Thursday 30 June
Time: 18:00 – 20:00
Start: Zig Zag, Nottingham, NG3 2DG
Finish: King Billy Pub, Nottingham, NG2 4RG
Duration: 2 hours
Distance: 4 miles
Difficulty: easy
Highlights: Elegant Italianate Victorian Warehouses; Functional Tenement Lace Factories; Slum Housing; the Domestic Labour Environment; Georgian Industrial ‘Satellite Villages’ of Hyson Green, Radford and Lenton.
Nottingham’s Lace Market was at the centre of the world’s lace industry in the nineteenth century and it is home to one of the finest concentrations of high status Victorian industrial buildings in the UK; time will be taken to admire the gracious curves and commanding entrances of these warehouses – but further afield, deeper into the suburbs, there are more hidden gems; firstly the C19 factories (some grandiose, others utilitarian) that produced the lace and then rare survivals of an earlier domestic lace industry, where the framework knitters lived and worked in humble dwellings that predated the factory system.
WALKING TOUR
Date: Thursday 30 June
Time: 18:00 – 20:00
Start: Zig Zag, Nottingham, NG3 2DG
Finish: King Billy Pub, Nottingham, NG2 4RG
Duration: 2 hours
Distance: 4 miles
Difficulty: easy
Highlights: Elegant Italianate Victorian Warehouses; Functional Tenement Lace Factories; Slum Housing; the Domestic Labour Environment; Georgian Industrial ‘Satellite Villages’ of Hyson Green, Radford and Lenton.
Nottingham’s Lace Market was at the centre of the world’s lace industry in the nineteenth century and it is home to one of the finest concentrations of high status Victorian industrial buildings in the UK; time will be taken to admire the gracious curves and commanding entrances of these warehouses – but further afield, deeper into the suburbs, there are more hidden gems; firstly the C19 factories (some grandiose, others utilitarian) that produced the lace and then rare survivals of an earlier domestic lace industry, where the framework knitters lived and worked in humble dwellings that predated the factory system.
WALKING TOUR
Date: Thursday 30 June
Time: 18:00 – 20:00
Start: Zig Zag, Nottingham, NG3 2DG
Finish: King Billy Pub, Nottingham, NG2 4RG
Duration: 2 hours
Distance: 4 miles
Difficulty: easy
Highlights: Elegant Italianate Victorian Warehouses; Functional Tenement Lace Factories; Slum Housing; the Domestic Labour Environment; Georgian Industrial ‘Satellite Villages’ of Hyson Green, Radford and Lenton.
Nottingham’s Lace Market was at the centre of the world’s lace industry in the nineteenth century and it is home to one of the finest concentrations of high status Victorian industrial buildings in the UK; time will be taken to admire the gracious curves and commanding entrances of these warehouses – but further afield, deeper into the suburbs, there are more hidden gems; firstly the C19 factories (some grandiose, others utilitarian) that produced the lace and then rare survivals of an earlier domestic lace industry, where the framework knitters lived and worked in humble dwellings that predated the factory system.