foreign [Music] cities in England Nottingham we vowed not to stop telling you about cities in England in this video this time it’s the turn of the attention-grabbing city of Nottingham we’re discussing a county town and unitary Authority area in Nottinghamshire this city in East Midlands is located 180 kilometers Northwest of London 53 kilometers southeast of Sheffield and 72 kilometers Northeast of Birmingham it has links to the global Legend of Robin Hood and to the historical lace making bicycle and tobacco Industries in recent years it’s been constantly featured in the media for the wrong reasons which are connected to poverty and deprivation even then this city is recognized as a tourist destination in England with a relatively High visitor turnout Nottingham before now the first credible historical account about Nottingham dates back to the 6th century when it was a minor settlement known as snottingham or snot Inger ham becoming what we call it today perhaps you know that word ham in Anglo-Saxon meant Village and the word Inga meant belonging to while snotter stood for man from this you can deduce the meaning of the ancient name of this city The Village owned by snotter trust word corruption the name gradually changed to Nottingham there’s evidence that and settlement existed here before the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in the 7th century during the Middle Ages early in the 11th century William the Conqueror built a wooden Castle which was rebuilt in the 12th century to guard Nottingham the settlement later grew into a Township later after the Norman Conquest its growth was rapid and a new area called the French Borough was created between the castle and the old town but the Old Town continued to be known as the English Borough by 11 55 the king gave Nottingham a charter a document granting townspeople certain rights during the Middle Ages about this time the Nottingham population was around 1 500 and by the 14th century it had reached 3 000. Nottingham had its mayor in 1284. it became a county corporate in 1449 and gained its first sheriff before and during Industrial Revolution the first grammar school was founded in Nottingham in 1513 some 20 years later Henry VII closed the leper hostels and the friaries Robert Smithson built Wollaton Hall in 1588 as was the case in entire England traditional Industries such as the manufacture of wool declined in Nottingham these were replaced by others such as malt making and glass making which were booming by the 17th century glass which was rare in the Middle Ages then became common of course much of Nottingham’s Prosperity during the Industrial Revolution was founded on the textile industry at some point the city became an important International Center of lace manufacturer Nottingham’s culture Nottingham has a culture rooted in theaters and Cinemas museums and Galleries and music and entertainment let’s tell you about them Cinemas and arts the famous Royal Center in Nottingham encompasses two large capacity theaters namely the Nottingham Playhouse and the theater Royal and the neighboring Royal Concert Hall there are other smaller theater venues also in the city such as the Nottingham Arts Theater the historical lace Market theater and New Theater among others also in the city are cineworld and a showcase together with independent Cinemas such as the Art House Broadway Cinema in Hockley and the four screen Art Deco Savoy Cinema museums and galleries in November 2018 National video game Museum was opened it had been known as the national video game arcade since 2015 when it was opened in the Hockley area of Nottingham but in June 2018 an announcement was made that it would be relocated to Sheffield it was said to be the first Cultural Center for video games in the UK others among several notable museums and art galleries in the city are the National Justice Museum where histories of law Crime and Punishment Through the Ages are documented visually there is also the greens Windmill and Science Center the Nottingham Castle Museum the Nottingham contemporary which was opened in 2009 new art exchange which was opened in 2008 Nottingham industrial Museum which was housed in Wollaton Park showcasing historical collections relating to textiles communication transport Mining and steam Nottingham Natural History Museum based at woolerton Hall with collections relating to Botany geology and zoology music the city has several large music and entertainment venues such as the Royal Concert Hall Rock City Nottingham Marina the 2500 capacity Nottingham Royal concert hall and Nottingham’s City ground the classical music scene is active in the city with well-established ensemblers such as Symphony Orchestra Nottingham harmonic Society Bach choir and Philharmonic Orchestra symphonic wind Orchestra regularly entertains the city culinary culture as of the last count there are more than 300 restaurants in Nottingham many of them are AA rosette winners the Iberico World Tapas at the city center was awarded a bib gomand in the 2013 Michelin guide the other two michelin-starred restaurants are alchemilia also in the city center winning one star and restaurant sat bains with rooms near Clifton bridge on the edge of the city with two Michelin stars the people of Nottingham the residents and natives of Nottingham are called nottinghamians among the notable people from Nottingham is Stella Remington the first female head of MI5 the UK’s counter-intelligence security and part of its intelligence Machinery working with the secret intelligence service born in 1935 in the city she schooled at Nottingham High School for Girls another nottinghamian is Thomas sanby architect draftsman watercolor artist and founder member of the Royal Academy in the music scene the city has produced illustrious Sons and Daughters from the 19th century up until the 21st century one of such is Shaco Kane Mason a young cellist who won the 2016 BBC Young musician award the lad performed at the wedding of Prince Harry to Megan on May 2018 the city was also home to the Nobel prize-winning Economist Clive Granger who studied and taught at the University of Nottingham his contributions to non-linear time series analysis were remarkable also via cheslav balafkin the mathematics professor and Pioneer of quantum probability was a member of the academic community at the University of Nottingham until his death in 2012. the 2021 estimated population is 332 500 according to the ons’s projection however based on the city’s 2015 population estimate of 321 500 and the total area of 74.61 square kilometers the city of Nottingham has a density of 4073 per square kilometer out of the residence of the city 65.4 percent are white British 13.1 percent are Asian 8.2 percent of West Indian origin 6.1 percent of European or North Americans 4.3 percent are Africans while 1.6 and 1.1 percent are from the Middle East and South Central America respectively crime rate in Nottingham Nottingham has been named the most dangerous major city in Nottinghamshire after 236 towns Villages and cities in Nottinghamshire it’s among the top 20 most dangerous overall the overall crime rate in the city of Nottingham in 2021 for example was 114 crimes per 1000 people which is poor in comparison to nottinghamshire’s overall crime rate of 76 per 1000 residents it is 33 percent higher it is also among the top five most dangerous major cities for England Wales and Northern Ireland for instance in December 2021 the Nottingham crime rate was the worst for bicycle theft with 52 of them stolen cost of living in Nottingham the cost of living in Nottingham depends on several factors however we found that it is in the top 32 percent of the world’s most expensive cities viewed in totality it averages 1 350 pounds which is somewhat not bad given the average after tax salary of 2160.98 pounds on average a one-bedroom apartment in the city center for example is 664.45 pounds while it’s 495.56 pounds outside the city center now the average cost of a three-bedroom apartment in the center is 1201.87 pounds while it’s 824.56 pounds outside the city center this should give an idea of the affordability of the cost of living in the city good and bad places in Nottingham like every city there are very good and very bad places to live in Nottingham the average earnings given above are boosted by good places like West bridgeford and Beeston Walton Hall and Park Old Market Square Stonebridge City farm and the adrenaline jungle are a few examples of places people love to visit in this city try and avoid certain areas such as Radford Saint Anne’s and Forest fields at night also netherfield Meadows heisen Green broxtell snyden Top Valley Clifton and bulwell among others are areas to avoid in this city Villages and small towns such as Hucknall Mansfield and ilkeston are also not good places to visit to be fair we love Nottingham’s culture and music and the people’s resilience but we dislike its poverty deprivation and crime rates what about you what do you like or dislike about this city in the United Kingdom please let us know thank you for watching this video please don’t forget to subscribe comment and turn on the notification Bell this is learning canteen
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[Music] [Music] so [Music] everyone welcome to another disused railway explorer in nottingham we’re about half a mile out of the city center you’re about how many miles from where you live 86 86 miles from where this guy lives this is andrew from alw research team and you’ve come to join me to have a look inside stenson tunnel 183 yards in length it’s the fourth one along this route of the nottingham suburban railway which had a lake for 3.65 miles so there was ashwell tunnel then there was sherwood tunnel nearby forneywood tunnel so over there we’ve got carlton road you can see the walling of the underbridge now it’s on the right hand side it’s still present on the left-hand side it appears to be gone and stenton tunnel is just a little way over there there’s andrew and that was once 41 station down there opened in 1889 but it only lasted until 1916 when it was closed to passengers and the line closed in 1951 where the station was there was also another tunnel and a short branch coming off and that was to provide access to a brickworks which was locally it’s just a short little stump of railway maybe less than a quarter of a mile in length so i think it’s time to get ourselves over this busy road down into the cutting of the railway and see if we can find snenton railway tunnel so let’s take a little look where we are on railmap.com so right in the center you have got carlton road that’s going diagonally up left to right on your screen at the top we’ve got the site of the former forneywood station and you can just see a little spur going off to the right hand side where it says peacock healthcare now that is where the fifth tunnel is the one with no official name now if we go further down you’ll see a lot of turquoise lines now this was industrial track work for a brick works which was actually on top of snenton tunnel and the surrounding area just to the left of the tunnel and that is exactly where we’re going today slengthen tunnel let’s see you back down there [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] so the blue brick on top of the carlton road x over bridge look it’s got heaven brick company tamworth staffordshire so they’ve come a fair distance maybe about 50 55 miles from where they were manufactured and it’s on every few it’s another one there look that one’s faded and so forth on the other side of carlton road now that’s the other side of the wall so you’ve just seen me walking along the pavement on the other side of that wall and you can see where we are in this filled in section of the track bed we’re at road level roadside level on the other side and look at the ground below so you can see that this would have been quite a cutting on this side and further down that way i think i can see the portal to our snedenton tunnel this is paul anyone recognize him who are you who are you wobbly runner why robbery roller because i do a bit of running and i’m quite wobbly i’m like a tree every year i seem to develop another layer every christmas like a tree is that why you’re exploring branch lines recently yeah that’s amazing i got into it over a lot down so i used to live on bait and junction if anyone knows it up near sheffield so just an absolute slight catnip like catnip is thrilled yeah oh yeah yeah yeah where you get from the uh the rover valley country parking is then viaducts that go over the roads and then you’ve got spin kill tunnel which we’re doing eventually yeah yeah we just gotta wait for the flood to die down yeah anyway he’s gonna make a video on this as well so i’ll put a link down below to his channel and you know give him a like [Music] so we just come from up there carlton road is about a two-minute walk just up there now you can see we’ve come down where the infill is and we look like we’re coming down to track bed level now because if i turn you a bat you can see this great oof just here like making fun of me but at the same time there it is look there’s scent and some are waiting for us so that confirms we’re at track bed level and it’s only a matter of time before we get inside let’s say it’s 183 yards long so we’ve definitely been in longer but i don’t even think it’s gonna be the shortest one we’ve been in what’s the shortest one you think you’ve been in uh it’ll be sugarloaf or weedly yeah yeah so about 100 meters long i think but it’s a first time experience for me i’ve never walked down in my entire life and i’ve lived in nottingham for most of it [Music] [Music] also just outside of math look how high the embankment is this cutting is severely deep it’s very very high it’s only on one side look it’s just a little embankment on the other side and that could have just been put there in recent years now we were just talking we feel this tunnel isn’t deep enough from the arch top in the center just up there right down to ground level it feels as if it’s a bit like it’s partially even filled it doesn’t look high enough it’s not is it no that tunnel that trap bed level must have been further down [Music] [Applause] [Music] a quick look above the portal now look we’ve just come around and it is in pretty good condition nice bit of iron fence in there or steel and you can see the track bed back towards forneywood and sherwood that’s where we were at the very beginning of the film just a little way up there now in the video itself inside the tunnel there probably isn’t going to be a lot of dialogue from myself uh because there are going to be other people in there and there’s lots of other noises that might be intermittently in there as well and plus andrew is just basically he’s just very loud so i don’t want to we don’t want to hear you either do it no no we do really um so i think it’s time to get inside [Music] [Music] [Music] so with our on track we’ve come down around about six feet would you say six seven feet and our theory at the beginning of the video that it was still in filled at the portal let’s get that light out of your face still feel that the portal came to fruition and we are now done onto the lower level exactly where the track would have been the various amount of soot saw the walls look on the side on the archway and little bits on the opposite side too we’re gonna take a slow walk down the tunnel now it’s infilled and if we see anything of interest on the way down i’ll tell you about it [Music] [Music] so we’ve found what would have been a first refuge looks it’s bricked up it’s got an arch top excuse the strobing it’s because there’s some very bright lights in here and you can see it’s got the curved button i was talking about how we believe the portal had been filled in at the beginning hadn’t we so what we’re roughly thinking is about when this white line is of the paint if you follow that all the way along and you’ll see some lights there now that is where the floor is that was on before we step down into the track bed level of the tunnel that we’re in now so he does up firmware suggestion that the teleport is still semi-filled in yep let’s get ourselves a bit further down and see if there’s any more refuges and get ourselves closer to the infill [Music] look we’ve got some shooting targets here it’s been heavily used because it did used to be and it still is a shooting range since 1971 it has been repurposed as a firing range and it’s a club that members can come along too straddle all the way through the tunnel of these railway sleepers that have been repurposed all the way down you can see the strip lighting all the way down that’s where the sleepers and also another infield brittle refuge [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so i found this guy again what are you doing what are you doing it’s in a tunnel do it wrong it is a bit chilly in here yeah the temperature’s dropped and um there’s still quite a bit of evidence in there you know it’s like walking into an abandoned tunnel which isn’t being looked after from purposes such as a shooting range it doesn’t feel like a railway tour i don’t think you know i’ve not got a massive experience definitely yeah yeah i’ll bring the lights you bring the food hey do you want to see to any queen of amazon i’ll show you the difference yeah i got done putting it on because it was blinding everyone [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so we’re halfway up the infield now andrew sat at the top look like well king of the castle and it’s very very soft sand that we’ve come up you can see if i put my foot on it it moves around it’s going to get a little bit firmer as we walk up this last bit and also i believe there you go you can see me now when we get to the very furthest point we’ll then see where it’s been infilled we’ll be at the tunnel portal on the other side and we’ll get to see infill which has been scooped in on the opposite side these two here they won’t let me come up can i can i come up or not yeah so this is it this is as far as we could go that’s the tunnel roof that i’m touching just above and there’s a curve just there which is the tunnel mouth just there and on the other side is the infill where the tunnel was filled in that’s remarkable isn’t it let’s get ourselves back down and walk through the other side so we’re gonna make ourselves back down the sandy section and back down to the trap bed level again oh what you’re doing [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so so you may be wondering where the infield portal is above ground well let’s take a look at this very old map now right in the center going from top to bottom you can just make out the railway lines and on the right hand side you can see skipton’s circus now next to skipton circus on the left you notice it is a cutting with all those dashed lines and the railway line going through it just above that you can make out a section which is not a cutting from here and down to here which puts the portal at the very tip of what is known as shelford rise which is just here on the map and if we jump back onto realmaponline.com again you can see skipton circus you can see shelford rise and you can even see the turquoise lines which was for the industrial track work above the tunnel and around it for the brickworks on site so that’s 183 yards of totally goodness of snenton tunnel on the former nottingham suburban railway four tunnels along this through route it was closed in 1951 what do you think to that it was brilliant that was that was great well worth coming on a permission visit yeah you know it’s not always about getting into places abandoned because some of the ones that’s even looked after are still worth nosy and because it’s still railway history at the end of the day like subscribe and comment on his video because he’s going to put a similar video to this one on it’ll be well worth a lot we’ll put the links down below and comment below also on this and like and subscribe and any suggestions you’ve got for me or him or him and me whichever way around see you in the next one take care bye-bye bye-bye [Music] you