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Maid Marian Way, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 6AJ

Known to all as "The Sal" it is one of three pubs with competing claims to be the oldest in the city. The others being Image and most famously Image

An unusual sculptured pub sign, the children have different expressions on each side. For the pub see here Image or here http://www.nottingham21.co.uk/build_royalchild_1.htm

This used to hang outside this notable Nottingham pub - for links see my picture of the exterior see Image

The rear of The Salutation Inn at the corner of Hounds Gate and St Nicholas Street. St Nicholas Street was known as Jew Lane for a 500 year period, prior to being given this saint's name. Nowadays the front door of the inn empties out onto Maid Marian Way (A6008), a busy dual carriageway.

"The Salutation Inn competes with the Bell and the Trip as Nottingham's oldest ... The oldest surviving part is the three-bay NE range on Hounds Gate, jettied towards St Nicholas Street, probably C16 ... The St Nicholas Street frontage incorporates an C18 brick dwelling one room deep" (Elain Harwood in the Pevsner Architectural Guide to the city). The planning committees of the 1950s, who allowed Maid Marian Way to cut through this part of the historic centre, thought the stuff in the background a good idea.

"The Salutation Inn competes with the Bell and the Trip as Nottingham's oldest ... The oldest surviving part is the three-bay NE range on Hounds Gate, jettied towards St Nicholas Street, probably C16 ... The St Nicholas Street frontage incorporates an C18 brick dwelling one room deep" (Elain Harwood in the Pevsner Architectural Guide to the city). The planning committees of the 1950s, who allowed Maid Marian Way to cut through this part of the historic centre, thought the tower in the background, which abuts Newdigate House, a good idea. The sky was bright on a sunny February afternoon.

This is the oldest part of an inn with a long history. Behind it is Maid Marian Way and one of the undistinguished tower blocks the post-war city fathers were so keen on. In the foreground is a Victorian bollard carrying the then Borough of Nottingham's device, a ragged cross and coronets.

A boozer with quite a few years behind it see Image but not the oldest in Nottingham!

This pub was a Home brewery tied-house it then consisted of three or four separate rooms - it is now "open-plan". It stands on the corner of Castle Gate and St Nicholas Street. The entrance from Castle Gate (just left of centre in the picture) used to be surmounted by a whale bone, this has now been moved inside as it was deteriorating rapidly. See Image The name is derived from a connection with the grand-children of James II. For more on this see here: http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/whatnall1928/royal_children.htm It can also be seen in one of Alan Murray-Rust's sequence of all the "Gates of Nottingham" Image

Now without the For Sale sign. Image