Remember when you could pop out in Nottingham for a beer or a nice glass of wine and have about a gazillion pubs to choose from? Well, that choice is dwindling all the time, with the likes of the smoking ban and cheap supermarket beer causing untold damage to a once-thriving sector.
Lost pubs such as The Corner Pin, Flying Horse, Black Boy, and Lion are never far from city drinkers’ lips. And who can forget the notorious Eight Bells, in St Peter’s Gate? Hands down one of the roughest pubs ever to grace our city centre.
But there are other fallen taverns that have somewhat been largely forgotten. They may not have the same notoriety, or the same legend, yet each served drinks to us and each holds a place in many of our hearts. With that in mind, let’s take you on a tour of the city’s perhaps lesser-known long-gone hostelries.
