A picturesque cliffside street in Nottingham, today lined with neat rows of council homes, was once the very place where prisoners were tossed from their cells into a river below. Cliff Road's unsavoury history is widely known, having been home to some of the worst slum dwellings in Europe, and its historical intrigue doesn't stop there. Civic society executive chairwoman, Hilary Silvester, reveals more about this fascinating period in our city's history.
Cliff Road, which runs at the foot of a 70ft sandstone wall in the city centre, is an alluring little residential street. But this was not always the case.
Many may have read before about its dark past filled with tales of immense poverty and terrible crimes. It was, after all, the site of some of the most "terrible" slums in all of Europe.
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