3 x Recording Studios, Hipster Art Galleries inside an old warehouse, a hack-space (3d-printing, computers, carpentry + lathes, available for all but oh! so secret, invitation only) and so on & on, all in one day - you will perhaps understand why I've the Council has coined the name The Creative Quarter†.

After a little backfill the day began with a single block, in which the first buildings were (what appears to be) a closed-down Persian-cuisine restaurant + the first Recording Studio.

Aberdeen Street + Carlton Road

Pistachio seems to be closed, and I suspect that the 5 flats above it are unused as well.

JT Soar is a Recording Studio based within an old Fruit Warehouse. He has left the old names on the side of the building. The space is also used for gigs on a bring-your-own-booze basis.

The Earl Howe is a famous old Nottingham pub next door to Pistachio on Carlton Road that is currently being converted into 6 apartments. C’est la vie.

St Luke’s Street

3 doors up from the Earl Howe is the St Luke’s Parochial Schools, which is yet another piece of Nottingham history. The St Luke’s Parish boundary runs down Carlton Road (the far-more-ancient parish of Sneinton is on the other side of the road).

Before 1861 the land was known as Clay Fields and, close by, the trees of Sherwood Forest grew. The land was Enclosed by act of Parliament and by 1861 the street pattern had been laid out. Carlton Road was a major street leading to the village of Carlton. The church foundation stone for the new Parish Church (St Luke’s) was laid on one corner where St Luke’s Street met Carlton Road in 1861, and the Parochial School began to be built in 1863 on the other corner.

I keep being surprised by the fact that there are no Parish Boundaries in OSM. I appreciate that they are probably UK-specific, but I thought that by now some church-group or other would have taken ownership of this one and put them in place.

Update 22 June 2022

Mapillary has changed it’s download URLs & therefore all links within my diaries that use photos stored in Mapillary are broken. I’m slowly going through to update them. The new URLs are terrifyingly long, but show OK on my screen (and I also hope on yours).

†After the fact, but with no mapping supplied.