Building work to turn a former Nottingham restaurant into escape rooms has led to an interesting discovery going back more than 150 years. Jemmying open the locked door of the basement new tenants Nick Scott and his wife Jennifer Gilbert-Scott stumbled upon a Victorian bakery, which was once used by the well-known Judge family, at their shop in Mansfield Road.
Once a hotbed of activity, the underground oven is derelict, dirty and rusty and has been untouched since 1912 when the bakery relocated. The couple hope to eventually transform it into one of three escape rooms at the site of the grade II listed building.
The duo, who run Cave Escape - cave-based escape rooms several doors away - fell in love with the time warp property even though it required an immense amount of work. More recently it had been Encounters restaurant, which closed in 2019 after 26 years. It has been empty since then.
