Canning Circus: The Footman's Rest and The Falcon
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Canning Circus: The Footman's Rest and The Falcon
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 6 Sep 2018
In the days before the complicated Canning Circus one-way system existed, and this top stretch of Ilkeston Road was truncated, these two buildings were at the ends of rows on Ilkeston Road and Alfreton Road. The Falcon is a pub, but The Footman's Rest is a tea salon and wine bar, which to those of us who grew up in Nottingham in the two decades after the War seems very exotic for Canning Circus....
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Image Location
Latitude
52.955861
Longitude
-1.16236