It’s incredible just how dense the housing was in Broadmarsh.Slum housing and narrow streets.It must have been a terrible place to live at its worst.In the 1980s,groups of us would take our BMX bikes,and ride on the humps next to the Broad Marsh bus station.Yet if you go back 60 or 70 years,the whole area was a slum area,with people living in terrible housing,including where the humps were.The Broad Marsh Shopping centre itself turned out to be a waste of space.It sealed off Lister gate and the route to Arkwright Street,which was an iconic route to the Meadows.Piss poor planning and the blame should be laid at the door of Nottingham City Council.😡
I can't stop laughing at these videos, Broadmarsh is so ugly but thanks to your expose and Hollywoodesque film inserts and pertinent quotes, well, i never thought a grotesque waste of concrete like Broadmarsh would be so amusing, i do wonder how many visitors to Nottingham have been greeted by the visual obscenity that is Broadmarsh and just hit the gas and headed as far away as possible
The Meadows were the best place I ever lived. Lovely neighbours who were genuinely interested in each other... a convenient short walk to the city centre and with the Trent parkland just at the end of our street.
I did my midwifery in The Meadows in the 70s It was being built on by the council and was a mix of old slums and newly built slums> i learnt a great deal more than midwifery that year. Colleagues informed us that St Ann's was worst being completely old slums
Great video as always! I especially love the pokemon style graphics, that must've taken some work, looks great though!! Plus the doctor who bit and the awesome visuals on the end preview! Nottingham has never seemed so interesting!
Absolutely fantastic work! I found myself going "wait WHAT!" about the slums of Nottingham - it's crazy that I've lived here my entire life and never known our history was so bleak! How did you do your research for this?
"wait WHAT!" is the exactly the reaction I had when I read about the Nottingham slums. It's a bit of our history that definitely isn't well advertised! For research, I started online with the Nottingham Hidden History Team and Notts History websites (links in video description). I then took out a bunch of local history books from Bromley House Library and also read through some of the Transactions of the Thoroton Society (the journal of the Nottinghamshire history society). I got a bunch of other books from the Five Leaves Bookshop who have a Nottingham section, and they also published Byron's Luddite defense speech in its entirely as a little pamphlet which you can buy from there. When I've got a bit of time later, I'll write up a list of my sources for the videos and add it to the description.
@@Nottsflix Thank you so much! I'm impressed by your ability to balance this thoroughness with (dark) humour! And like you said, it really is a part of Notts history that they'd like us to forget. I've told a friend who lives in the housing complex on what was Narrowmarsh and now he's worried he'll be haunted. I'll have to check out the Bromley House Library and Five Leaves, they get rated as the best in the UK I think (and your girl loves her some musty history books!!) Keep doing what you're doing, when can we expect the epic conclusion?
You should definitely check out both Bromley House and Five Leaves - they're both great! For the epic conclusion, earliest I can realistically say is May. It depends on how much time I get to work on it over the next few weeks. I also want to get permission to film inside Broadmarsh for the finale, which hopefully won't be too much of administrative hassle...
Dear me, this might have been a really good documentary had the mad creator not decided to turn it into a farce at every possible turn. What a load of tripe.
It really is ridiculous. There's a bunch of modern parallels that I ended up cutting because the video was getting too long. I do intend to come back to them in future videos though.
I have been oppressed by the boss owning the machine now is the era of the smaller machine that could be no larger than a kitchen cooker and per force I learned a bit of structured basic which has leanings to the same occam that they use to drive robot work cells in Halewood to make your range rovers I can drive my own machine.
Had allot of family connections to the broadmarsh slums so this was brilliant to feel more connected to the awful lives many of them lead. No wonder we have such a strong left wing in the city
@@Nottsflix Delightful to come across and explained much better than I remember my history teacher at school. I get it now and it's crystal clear. don't under estimate what you're doing!!!
It’s incredible just how dense the housing was in Broadmarsh.Slum housing and narrow streets.It must have been a terrible place to live at its worst.In the 1980s,groups of us would take our BMX bikes,and ride on the humps next to the Broad Marsh bus station.Yet if you go back 60 or 70 years,the whole area was a slum area,with people living in terrible housing,including where the humps were.The Broad Marsh Shopping centre itself turned out to be a waste of space.It sealed off Lister gate and the route to Arkwright Street,which was an iconic route to the Meadows.Piss poor planning and the blame should be laid at the door of Nottingham City Council.😡
The 🔳 Freemasons run the Nottingham City Council
Stop ❌ playing Council Tax
I know it’s been a few centuries, but I’m still not over enclosure
Came across this by chance good to see a channel giving old Notts documentaries
such a funny take, you have to laugh at the word B r o a d m a a a r s h or you would cry
I can't stop laughing at these videos, Broadmarsh is so ugly but thanks to your expose and Hollywoodesque film inserts and pertinent quotes, well, i never thought a grotesque waste of concrete like Broadmarsh would be so amusing, i do wonder how many visitors to Nottingham have been greeted by the visual obscenity that is Broadmarsh and just hit the gas and headed as far away as possible
Gas? Shit gas ! Didn't you watch the hydrology section it's a sewer cap u nut.
The zombie shopping center, dead yet it staggers on decayed and empty!
It's gone now
The Meadows were the best place I ever lived. Lovely neighbours who were genuinely interested in each other... a convenient short walk to the city centre and with the Trent parkland just at the end of our street.
I did my midwifery in The Meadows in the 70s It was being built on by the council and was a mix of old slums and newly built slums> i learnt a great deal more than midwifery that year. Colleagues informed us that St Ann's was worst being completely old slums
Really brilliant this is
Thanks for doing it 👍🏻
Another fine installment :) also, every video I see about the industrial revolution makes me more of a communist.
Excellent, loved this. Very fell made too and full of facts I was unaware of. Well done old boy! ;-)
Great video as always! I especially love the pokemon style graphics, that must've taken some work, looks great though!! Plus the doctor who bit and the awesome visuals on the end preview! Nottingham has never seemed so interesting!
Absolutely fantastic work! I found myself going "wait WHAT!" about the slums of Nottingham - it's crazy that I've lived here my entire life and never known our history was so bleak! How did you do your research for this?
"wait WHAT!" is the exactly the reaction I had when I read about the Nottingham slums. It's a bit of our history that definitely isn't well advertised!
For research, I started online with the Nottingham Hidden History Team and Notts History websites (links in video description).
I then took out a bunch of local history books from Bromley House Library and also read through some of the Transactions of the Thoroton Society (the journal of the Nottinghamshire history society). I got a bunch of other books from the Five Leaves Bookshop who have a Nottingham section, and they also published Byron's Luddite defense speech in its entirely as a little pamphlet which you can buy from there.
When I've got a bit of time later, I'll write up a list of my sources for the videos and add it to the description.
Sources added to description! I don't think I've forgotten any...
@@Nottsflix Thank you so much! I'm impressed by your ability to balance this thoroughness with (dark) humour! And like you said, it really is a part of Notts history that they'd like us to forget. I've told a friend who lives in the housing complex on what was Narrowmarsh and now he's worried he'll be haunted.
I'll have to check out the Bromley House Library and Five Leaves, they get rated as the best in the UK I think (and your girl loves her some musty history books!!)
Keep doing what you're doing, when can we expect the epic conclusion?
You should definitely check out both Bromley House and Five Leaves - they're both great!
For the epic conclusion, earliest I can realistically say is May. It depends on how much time I get to work on it over the next few weeks. I also want to get permission to film inside Broadmarsh for the finale, which hopefully won't be too much of administrative hassle...
Same
Hyson Green
born 72
homebirth
Broadmarsh is so grotty
Excellent work! I’d never imagined why our city centre was so small, now I know why. Can’t wait for the 3rd part.
Now it’s completely gone was working there in 2015
As a person interested in city planning, it would be interesting to see 3D models of Nottingham in medieval times and Victorian times.
There used to be a 3d model of the broadmarsh and narrowmarsh area in Nottingham Castle museum. I don't know if it still exists.
I kind of want the River Leen to rise up and reclaim its former glory... #JusticeForTheLeen
Dear me, this might have been a really good documentary had the mad creator not decided to turn it into a farce at every possible turn. What a load of tripe.
Pipe down moustache. Dude spent 10's of hours working on the editing and I personally love it. You say hes mad, we say hes wise ;)
Brilliant, Pokemon spinning frames and Agricultural Revolution 2 bits made me laugh as if I had ‘canal mania’
Which is something I definitely have
We all have a bit of canal mania every now and again
This is really fantastic. Amazing amount of research and fascinating information and great balance of humour and pathos.
Well done youth, this is dead good.
This is so close to what's happening now its insane
It really is ridiculous. There's a bunch of modern parallels that I ended up cutting because the video was getting too long. I do intend to come back to them in future videos though.
Nottsflix:No mention of Landowners deals to Mine COAL history?Another documentary? Thanks Mac.2021.
Nottinghamshire coal mining is something I want to cover in a future video!
Absolutely great channel funny bloke not just knowledgeable 🎉 watching from sherwood
I have been oppressed by the boss owning the machine now is the era of the smaller machine that could be no larger than a kitchen cooker and per force I learned a bit of structured basic which has leanings to the same occam that they use to drive robot work cells in Halewood to make your range rovers I can drive my own machine.
This is really entertaining! I wish i was 3.5minutes longer though
Me too, really spoiled it for me
Great history telling, bit hard to follow as keeps chopping and changing, no time to read or look at each page.
Very interesting. Thank you
Had allot of family connections to the broadmarsh slums so this was brilliant to feel more connected to the awful lives many of them lead.
No wonder we have such a strong left wing in the city
SO GOOD!
good historical info but am old and cannot stand the mindcraft shit pal
Fantastically well made and informative. Looking forward to the next instalment.
Thankyou for your comment - I'm very happy to hear you enjoyed it. Part 3 is already out!
Question... chapter 3 what is the image that pops up extremely briefly between 5:00 to 5:05 ?
Great video, keep it up!
So....the average age of death was 14 to 18.......
As covered in Engels seminal work, the Condition of the Working Class (1884-ish?) In parts of London the life expectancy was 17 too.
Thanks for another good vid. Just found your channel.
Brilliant, well put together and concise to watch. Thank you
Thankyou!
@@Nottsflix Delightful to come across and explained much better than I remember my history teacher at school. I get it now and it's crystal clear. don't under estimate what you're doing!!!
It should stay a shopping centre just moden up a bit
"Some documentaries take thee form of curiosity"!.
wow
Who did the bloody grammer, a three year old..u wanna go for a drink..no busy knitting sry..etc etc