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Broad Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 3AP

The previous art on this gable can be seen in John Sutton's Image

Former Home Ales pub. A substantial pub on the fringe of the city centre it was very popular in the late '70's and would often be completely full - especially on Saturday lunch times. At that time the sixpence (tanner) was still legal tender (at two and a half pence) and the landlord here always made sure there were plenty in the till so after a visit you would always come away with at least one in your pocket.

A view of the Lower Parliament Street end of Broad Street. On the left is Screen 22, "the smallest, digital single-screen cinema in the World (awaiting confirmation)". It has 22 seats and "a brand new state of the art sound & visual system and it is also one of only a handful cinemas in the UK with Active 3D". Opposite this 'mini-cine' is "The Lord Roberts", a theatrically themed pub named after the last Commander-in-Chief of the British military forces prior to the post being abolished in 1904.

Broad Street is said to have been part of an ancient route connecting Nottingham with York via Doncaster. It was known as Broad Lane until the mid-1700s. Although the independent Broadway cinema has functioned on this site since 1982, many years ago – in 1860 in fact – a Wesleyan chapel was founded on this spot, it being the place where William Booth, the Methodist preacher, experienced his religious conversion. He later went on to found the Salvation Army.

Old houses and shops with 18th-century facades and framework-knitters' windows on the third floor. These windows let in the light so essential for stockingers, and are some of few left in a city where once there were many.

On the left are some old houses and shops with 18th-century facades and framework-knitters' windows on the top floor. These windows let in the light so essential for stockingers, and are some of few left in a city where once there were many. Image] was taken a few years ago, before the mural appeared on the newish bricks of the end wall.

Nice faience pub at the junction with Lower Parliament Street. By W.B. Starr & Hall, 1929 (originally the Plough and Sickle). See also Image

This former 22 seater cinema was once accepted as "the smallest cinema in the world" by the Guinness Book of Records and functioned as such between 2011-2016. However, from late 2017 it has been owned by Savoy Systems that builds and manages point-of-sale computer sales software for independent cinemas in the UK. Since early 2023 "Screen 22" cinema has been rebranded "Mammoth: A Climate Action Cinema" and it now predominantly screens film showings that favour this perspective. The two flats above the business premises are owned by the company and rentable. Old Lenton Street can be seen more-or-less straight ahead. A left hand turn here leads vehicles and pedestrians past the much larger Broadway cinema (a 30 second walk).