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How rough is it? Would you walk around the city centre in the evening carrying a camera?
Shottingham? Yup. But then I'm a double hard bastard.*
*You'll be fine.
Was down for the UFC a few months ago. The city centre was grim during the day and we walked through it about midnight on the way back to the hotel. It was an absolute riot. Drunken carnage everywhere, saw a couple of fights. Much like a lot of city centres but I felt it was a lot worse than Glasgow on a Saturday night.
You'll be fine, just don't go wandering round the meadows or sneinton with it. Although there's not much to photo in either of those!
Like most cities, there are areas tomstay away from, just those are a bit more hardcore in nottingham. Meadows, St Anns and to a lesser degree Sneinton are pretty scary.though Sneinton has a strong community spirit. More likely to be taken care of in a good way there, especially on the dale.
The centre is fine. Big student community, so pretty safe in that repsect. Evening in the centre with a camera, just fine
You'll be fine, just don't go wandering round the meadows or sneinton with it. Although there's not much to photo in either of those!
Sneinton dragon? Greens mill? Bendigo? Do you know sneinton?
What a load of bollocks! Notts has never been scary in the actual centre!
I thought city centre was nice earlier this week, in the daytime.
Its fine any time
You'll be fine in the centre of town, crime wise, it's no different to any other city.
My old stomping ground. Used to be rough as, but city centre is no worse than most others now.
My worst experience was back in '89, got turned away from a Forest game so had a couple of hours to kill waiting for mates who got in. Took a wrong turn out of the TBI and wandered into the Meadows.... found a nice friendly local boozer..... never been so scared in all my adult life and I had a local accent!
Forest lost to top off a great day.
Too right, though in fairness, even the UFC guys didn't go into st Ann's
same as any other city, couple of rough area's, mainly fine
Yes, wouldn't think twice about it
The sky mirror is cool
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And the fountains in market square are good for reflections
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I used to live there! Suppose the dragon would be good. Seeing armed police on a regular basis/cars getting burned/living next door to a smackhead whose dealers turned the house into a drug den while was in prison/finding a knife under my door mat may have clouded my memories somewhat...
It was cheap while I was saving for a house of my own though!
The city is fine. The place is a ghost town at the moment anyway so wouldn't stress.
Edit: can't wait to get out mind. Place has ruined my riding but the girlfriend insistd we stay here for a year before heading back towards North Wales
Ay up.. ( sorry that's Derbyshire talk ) its a nice city, but rough in parts but even then it's not a war zone or anything like..
If you taking your camera go over to where the old Mills are, some nice restaurants there and you should get some nice shots of the old buildings..
Notts is quite a nice place in all.
Ste t. Ruined your riding? It's not that bad here surely?
Just packed the camera, with 9-18mm wide angle. Need to get to grips with that thing, a city might be a good place.
I'm going to be moving as well, the lack of decent doorstep riding is definitely a factor, coming from the surrey hills originally and having lived in Sheffield for 5 years spoiled me!
I used to live in Radford. Worst thing that happened to me was when a case of wine got nicked out of my shed.
vdubber67 - I moved to Nottingham after 4 years on the North Wales coast, waking up to either sea views or mountain views, so the place does feel a bit lacking.
Happy to meet anyone local who can show me the sights!
A friend of mine offered the opinion:
[i]"Think of any place in the UK - they're all pretty much nice places with the odd pocket of shite. Nottingham is just the other way round - it's shite with the odd pocket of nice".[/i]
I'd have to agree & I live there too.
The council planning dept. or whoever makes the decisions over what can and can't be built must be blind. They will happily allow ANY monstrosity to be built in ANY part of the city irrespective of the surroundings. So for example you'll often find a prefabricated square concrete horror next to a beautiful gothic building. Some cities have a sort if iggledy piggledy charm that just works whereas Nottingham does anything but. However, that could be just the reason to pack a camera..!
Molgrips thought you was looking at the town called Brecon
Don't worry molgrips - I thought your camera was small and discrete, so noone will notice it 😉
On moving from a medium dodgy area of London (prostitutes on the street sometimes but never got mugged and not too druggy), Nottingham on a Saturday night was pretty scary. That was 8 years ago though - nowadays it is mostly okay. I wouldn't spend too much time on Upper Parliament Street or Market Square where all the cheap pubs are late on a Saturday, but otherwise it is fine in all the bits you're likely to go to as a visitor.
Grantway, I am not moving there, just visiting for work.
I live in Nottingham and always feel very safe here. I walk around the city centre alone at night, feel very safe. I live the other side of the Meadows and work in the centre so have to go through the Meadows every day, several times a week at night and also always feel very safe.
My running routes take me through all the 'dodgy' areas (Meadows, St Anns, Sneinton) but I have always found the scary-looking hoodies very polite when I actually say hello to them!
Hope you have a nice trip!
ste_t - have you checked out natsmtb? We ride every weekend (pretty good pace for a club) and if you come to a weekend ride you will most likely find a few peeps who live near you and can also show you the local night rides.
I live and work in the city centre.
Yes, some of the local inhabitants are 'interesting', and it does have possibly more than its fair share of concrete monstrosities... But there are always good and bad bits in each city. Plus I've only heard 1 person being shot so it can't be that bad 😉
Will have to find my bikes and look up natsmtb.. Do they let in singlespeeders?
Hanging about on a Sunday waiting for a flight home and we ended up in some decrepit shopping mall near the big square. The place had a Wimpy in it! The land that time forgot.
LadyAlexMTB - cheers for that. I'll have a look now. Problem for me is that I work every Saturday and Sunday so confined to weekday rides.
BoardinBob - that'll be Broadmarsh. A truly horrific 'shopping' experience, places like that just shouldn't exist.
Megatron - singlespeeders more than welcome. We have several. We even have a couple of fixed riders!
ste t, Hi there, I work strange hours too, so could be free for rides in the week, e-mail sent
Alex 🙂
Handy thread this, given I've just moved back to Nottingham after some years away.
Do NATS do local week-night rides?
Cheers,
Keith
Walk from train station to town via scruffy concrete underpass - check
Dilapidated shopping centre - check
People having a screaming argument in the street - check
Scruffy people in tracksuits - check
However aside from all that are some lovely medieval streets done out rather smartly and some really beautiful buildings. Not a bad city centre overall, could do with more consistency 🙂
I am still in possession of my camera.
Walked by a Middle Aged woman at about 3pm on Christmas Eve up through hockley who'd got a huge bifta going. She never even batted an eye lid when one of the kids asked what that smell was 😀
Is Axeman (Andrew) still floating around?
My brother owned a place in the Meadows for about 10 years it didnt seem to bad
So if I want to go for a run, from the city centre, where's a good place to go? I don't want to run through gangland 🙂
Out towards Beeston or West Bridgford? Avoid Clifton, Meadows, Snenton, Hyson Green, Bestwood, Broxtowe...
...st. anns, Radford, Basford
So if I go west it'll be ok, by the sound of it?
The university and back would be a reasonable distance, I might just try that.
What about that canal towpath?
Sorry, I don't really know town that well, If it's the towpath which goes past the Forest ground, it should be fine...just don't veer off right as you go out of town 😉
That's heading south though?
Molgrips wasn't you working in London ?
If you want to go for a run from the city centre you could start at the canal, next to the magistrates courts and follow the towpath to castle marina and further towards Beeston , it is perfectly safe.
Or you could run down parallel to the tram tracks past Nottingham trent university, towards the Forest recreation ground (not the Nottingham forest ground, that is in west bridgford) and have a good run round there, it is safe during the day.
Or you could head south towards Trent Bridge, this will take you past the Meadows, but it is fine during the day, and to the River Trent which has a nice embankment area to run along and you could follow it to the end, run back along Castle boulevard.
Molgrips - an easy run would be along the canal towpath, coming up at the Magistrate's court/train station, through the Meadows and onto the River Trent, along the Trent until you hit the canal again and follow the canal until you're back where you started. 4.2 miles. How long are you here for? Want a guide? Could do tomorrow (Friday) any time after 11.30am. Night riding tonight so saving my energy today!
KeithB - NATS dont officially organise any night rides but if you go on the forum people arrange them between themselves or if you turn up at a Sunday ride you'll get chatting to people and will find someone who lives near you wanting to ride weekday nights.