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The hey Notting Madness fans welcome to what for many is the uninspiring nottingam castle but we have got a castle and uh thought i’ give you quick legs of it we’ll just have a look over towards the tesque buildings and uh I’ll pop you down to see uh See an old mate of
Mine called Robin so just bear with me on the be on the b75 here we go bumping down the cobbles bumping down the not so smooth flag Stones sorry wobbling about a bit I guess you wob about a bit this is a part of the castle wall there’s various plaques and freees
On the side of the castle here here’s my mate Robin Wood when I was a kid spent a lot of time with us with his old Arrow missing but he’s got it now some rather nice old buildings here the only ones that seem to survive are eers and pubs
And places for in a in a fortification as it were father gills named after Watson father Gill fantastic architect of the Victorian area ranked in the first top three architects in the country Watson father Gill it was a Mansfield lad did you know anyway little bit of a around Nottingham on the
B75 see what we’ll see see what we’ll get please enjoy the video so there through the gates is what we now have is Nottingham Castle this is the other side the gates and all and another sorry Financial tale of back bankruptcy the company that acquired it for a
Song went bankrupt but I believe it’s back in the hands of Nottingham City Council now which is as we know also bankrupt now we’re entering the Parker State um Parker state is a private estate uh Google it I think it came about because the the toughs wanted to keep
Themselves segregated from the disease and the Tor oil and the squala of the Nottingham streets although I guess they were creating it at the time anyway let’s have a breeze downhill into the Parker State we’ll let this car go pound per square meter I believe this is the most
Expensive real estate in the in the county there are some lovely lovely houses around here uh there are a few father gills there is some reasonably cheap I think these here this block of plats here I think the last one I saw on there was less than £200,000 probably 5 years ago
Though some rather interesting steps up into the into the city some beautiful buildings but a lot of them have been developed into fats or apartments here we have a a Jensen Interceptor four wheeel cage un it with the looks of it that looks pretty cool slightly Gothic inspired Victorian I’m sure that isn’t
To Father Gil although it’s got got glimpses of father girles in it I may be wrong my notum friends will uh put me right nothing there’s a tennis club speed bumps are no fun when cycling single-handed finger post sign there which is quite an interesting bit of British history
Around the British Countryside and cities there are a lot of fingerpost signs got a car behind me I Le off a bit anyway I’ll pull up here let him b as you can see see the the the castle in the background I’m sorry if there’s a load of wind noise here we
Go very patient motorist hanging out behind me an electric mg I’m having one of those when I’m off for my 67th birthday just going to bump up the C here really off interesting little Ballard disappeared into the road that keeps the uh ho way out lots of things are named after this
Stone we’ll stop and have a look we have a brewery named after it Castle Rock adorns many pictures and postcards Castle Court that maybe a fathergill I’m not sure so there we have the Castle On Top of the Rock Sandstone rock you can see holes which have been
Hone out by the wind over the years and no doubt many of boy has climbed to the top of there and who could blame them for a bit of Adventure right we’ll get over onto the Super Highway next and then uh we’ll join along there I keep the camera running if I
Can just turn around and try to make it in one piece there’s not really anywhere to cross the road all a bit skew if as the Hardway go cod goes really so this is our Super Highway knock it up into third gear should move this gear shifter
Towards the the bar grip about 8 mm I think deep excavation cyclist Dismount what a Le mumbo jumbo that is this is hell of a state mind you city council bankrupt suppose there’s no money to clean the streets so I try to keep as firm as possible
Keep hold of as Fern as possible as it were when you think about it we’re at the end of January now virtually and uh all these leaves will have fallen off the trees in uh October last year and the associated rubbish we did uh some of us on the bront to Nottingham
Group did come and tid you up along here there was a a lot less then than there is now can just get a glimpse of the canal I’m going to stop here rather nice memorial to the men of Lenton and the Fallen of Lenton officers and sergeants and privates on the
Side just look through the arms housers here they are the sweet have a Google arms housers and you’ll see their significance in British history right b75 is looking good riding extremely well dead impressed with it let’s carry on we’ve made it up to Highfield Park or
Highfields Park Park which is on the way to beaston um part of the University fantastically Jess your boot building boting Lake in the summer bit of a FY here where you can sit and have a bit of lunch always an nice cream van Cafe Galleries and over the ro road there the
Other side of the field is is an art gallery too many kids about to film too much some geese guy doing his tricks on his unicycle it’s one of our sites for the picnics one on picnic rides bring you back soon so this is University Boulevard and uh we’re now at
The Beast end so we’ll have a Little Ride Along here this is sort of this from what as a as a kid this is one of the first places I saw bikes on Pavements retro Honda 50 over there don’t if you caught a glimpse of
It so we’ got the uh highfields park on the left in the UN University Building through there beautiful place packed out in the summer busy today that’s why I’ve not filmed so much got my new coat actually it’s a piz of storm coat from go outdoors I also something sort of padded
Not necessarily down this won’t be down it’ll be fake uh 19 quid with a hood little bit warmer than the other coat you’re going to go Outdoors we’ve got loads of choice from this was 40 allegedly 40 quid down to whatever then you obviously have to go Outdoors discount
Being a go go Outdoors man but I guess it’s all a bit of a bit of a giggle I suppose these amazing trees along [Applause] here over the uh other side where the tram is we got H nothing and hockey Center 10 of February the next match notum tennis Cent is also further
Along the other side of the road we’re back at TI Fields Park beautiful city park many people Grumble about the uh University of Nottingham because it’s a big university and uh obviously it has the Entourage that goes with it the students and the students accommodation I’ve just
I’m just stopping to show you something here which is so modern Nottingham is all about boots and Jesse boots and the Legacy Jesse boot left Nottingham and he founded the university he did I don’t know how much money boots made as a business but as a person he I
Would think he had he must have had a bob or two well there’s Jesse boot let me just dump the bike a minute kickstand why do people want to kickstand on a bromton many people ask that’s why so is Jesse this is a monument to his industry Beyond an everlasting Monument to his
Benevolence rather cross looking Eagles up there and the boot the Jesse boot building behind the the side of the lake well worth a v well worth a visit guys bring you back soon this is one of my favorite chill out areas it’s the I think it’s called The
Science Park we call it Science Park I’m sure that’s what what it is this lovely decking looks like they preparing land here for something else let’s hope it’s of architectural interest like this I find this quite interesting I was on a architectural tour of Nottingham and uh the guy from the uni
Who led the tour he his father I believe designed this and he didn’t like it that’s not his his father didn’t like it he didn’t like it the sun didn’t like it so I think that’s quite amusing but he uh shame on him for publicly denouncing his father’s work no I’m only
Joking let’s stop and have a look St at the end here there’s a there’s a Nature Reserve at the end so this is across from the highfields park beautiful little corner of nature yeah look at that axle stand so beast and sidings local nature reserve was ones Railway sidings bit of
A map here we’re here Jessie Jessie Avenue so I guess we’ve come from Highfield Park down here onto the onto here they’ve gone down University Boulevard and we’ve cut across the tra tracks here and we we’ we’ve come to here I guess be and sidings I find this quite
Pleasing a lot of modern architecture I find these days tends to be in the guys of what was once called brutalist and a lot of your 193s 20s 30s even for is brutalism so looks good to this day a lot of your modern architecture after about 3 or four years
There are some Flats in nting in fact I tried to go about that when let show you tend to look about 150 years old when they’re probably only 20 years old right we’re heading down onto the canal I don’t know what I can bring you from there I’ll I’ll take you over the
Boots boots Bridge that’s always good we’re sort of heading over to the boots Factory now which she deserves a video in its own right so I should do anything there have a Google have a look on YouTube um you know those days when you get you get those pains in your shoulder
Or in your neck or in your bum bone or your toe bone or your thigh bone or neck ache or leg ache or what do you turn to cuz most people in the world turn to aruin is it I or I tell you a minute it says
Here well this is to qu the waffle and because I can’t find the spot on the board Dr Stewart Adams he was instrumental in the discovery of our Bruin and got all sorts of accolades he got his OB he was uh honor degrees blue plaqu Freeman of the city
Of Nottingham this is this is him here so this is a bridge built in his memory absolutely cracking structure Rusty steel I love Rusty steel that’s the way ahead so when in pain next time and you’re taking an aruin think of Nottingham Dr Stuart Adams great guy got to a Be so the back of the boots Factory I’m on the other end of Stewart Stewart’s bridge I’m going to Freewheel downhill and we can more or less Freewheel all the way to the canal so let’s have a bit of a Freewheel this is is quite a strategic Link in Nottingham sh’s not or
Nottingham City cyc infrastructure because because it’s it’s connected to two areas because the connection before was either through beaston or over the flyover you let the Lor go so there’s your boots complex s us only no forair there’s a l full of uh boots bits and
Bobs used to make a SS here wet Goods Dry Goods I think wet goods were shampoos and stuff like that and dry goods were pills and tablets and stuff like that yeah so they cut this through I don’t know I did lead I did come over when it opened more or less on
The day and I did Le a bike ride over here I’ve got creaky side it’s not be boom M knees the bag is uh worth shopping to look at and look a smooth Tac just use the kickstand again so the bag is um it’s a Brom
Bag Bron logos on on it you can see those on here 2020 limited edition British Olympic team Olympic bag wasn’t 2020 the failed Olympics due to co any they sold all these off cheap my mate Allan he saw the other day he bring me a message hey help brilliant bikes Olympic
Bags half price so I think 75 quid probably don’t know bargain like a bargain yeah so this is a great bit of Cy infrastructure much needed used by many beautiful on the summer Circuit of bike rides circum navigating the boots facility and you can I think you can
Virtually go all the way around the boots Roots facility on cycle cycle route we’re not going to do it cuz at the end here we all go go left current owners are I believe from Over the pond from the good old us OFA whether it’s I can’t remember owns it somebody bought
It from over there anyway we’re back towards the canal and uh people living on the river I’ll bring you back actually I’ll bring you back from there’s a little bit more history to look at we’re on the edge of what was another previous Nottingham city employer uh John players John players tobacco this
Site this is the uh I guess the western edge of the player site which has all been redeveloped the players’s original Factory from probably the 1930s may be wrong was a concrete structure very brutalist in design but it was designed by I should say swiss but it could be a swed or Scandinavian
Somewhere over there one of Scandinavian North European countries I believe it was architect anyway and he um when he designed it it was designed as a box it look like a box a concrete box but it designed to have a modular interior like an Ikea Factory a factory
Where you could change the walls around so it’s built as a box the internal walls you could move around inside and it could be adapted as any production facility for anything come climatic change probably stems from the wall when Factory just had to adapt so they built
This Factory that could be turned into a factory to make anything they’ve knocked it down and of what is sad the from what I’ve seen they haven’t named the roads yet but it’s not it’s think it’s called Power something power a I don’t know something to do with electricity it’s name
Absolutely no recognition of its of the site’s initial use and uh the only I have found and it isn’t players is uh we’ve got to the Imperial Imperial tobacco bus stop for Nottingham City Transport sret I know the thing of the past but so uh those looking witches on W
Witching stalls in the local in the village Pond or burning them at Stakes time moves on doesn’t it but it’s part of History to be forgotten bit further we have a big road we have some construction over there on the cycle path I’m going to take you down an
Underpass a lot of these have been filled in in the around the country I think all the ones we have in Mansfield have been filled in on the grounds of antisocial Behavior so this goes under the big road under the Big Junction and we’ll pop up who knows where
Strangely no cyclist Dismount signs bit of riti wow top God it stinks I’m going to get through and we stop oh it stinks there’s a tide line can you see it right not stinking all I’m 5′ s head so guess what on 5’8 so that’s 5’8 you see my
Hand slimy there’s the tide line wow you see the got n thing sewage I guess oh gosh right welcome to uh the sewers of Nottingham oh my god oh god let’s get up here I’m walking oh gosh I don’t know how long it is since that was flooded it’s got to be 3
Weeks Jeepers that’s really SW then oh that’s gross gosh one of our local signs tagged up with all sorts of tags I don’t get this hello my name is I don’t see any point if going to stick something on a sign let’s make it worthwhile you know if you’re going to stick
Something on the sign let’s have a oh I don’t know how much you got on the last sentence uh therez the battery died just changed the battery well I was saying signs and stickers not run back down there signs and stickers maybe I should get some nothing sh Madness stickers
And plaster all over the place right I’m going to stand you up a minute see my new coat now see my new coat and go Outdoors the other thing of go outdoors I bought a thermos mug um with a Tenner cold water in this one um supports mind UK charity called Mind 10 grd how it goes to the charity I don’t know anyway that’s my new coat orange lining 19 quid you’ll move on a bit more you’ll film a bit as well gosh please excuse my uh I’m so choked that was
Uh that was vial right really killed me mini garage actually this is a awful bit of road to Cy along because it must be a car thing when they come to look at cars they drive along here is though they’ve just come off Mario Kart so you sort of pedal down here and
You’ve got the uh the Mario Kart drivers still smell drains sitting those BMW interesting question I I’m fortunate I have I have use I have use of an electric vehicle electric car which is I’m going on the pavement so I have used of electric car and I’ve got to say it’s actually
Outstanding it costs £5 to do 100 miles it’ll do probably 250 mil on a run I don’t i’ still D I’ve not driven 250 mi in wongo for many many years anyway we’ve passed sitner it soell mini BMW and all that jazz what we got here nazat and Ferrari when in 20 35
When uh you can only buy a new electric car what will the difference be I the difference with those things they probably got V2 engines multiv valve cylinders turbos 2 three God knows how many turbos supercharg all sorts of gizmos when we’ve got an electric
Car does it not become no more than the humble torch rechargeable torch So What Becomes of the Ferrari What Becomes of the Mazerati with the Aston Martin Garage is up by the uh up by where we were with the um I’m going to try side with you
Crouches is anyone ever seen a Crouch transporter God they carry some big stuff I think they put stuff on YouTube as well they carry tanks and all sorts crouches D you ever seen one of their lwes anyway back to what I’m saying yeah mg I want an
Mg that’s what I we have an electric car so we to D Kirk now I’ve waffled on about electric cars and know yeah cycle fly over pedestrian fly over this is three lanes each way people moving everything everything about is about the way people move you can tell it’s Sunday cuz most
Of these have got two people in generally they’ve only got one person in right well I’ve had it enough have tried to pedal on again the traffic and film as well so a little Junction here we’ll stop and have a look see what’s down there there’s loads of bloody rubish here
Wow let me go back this is very British I’m afraid to say wow what a mess this is BR new what a freaking mess you probably you probably don’t all come out on camera he an iron a box of that’s bit it seems It’s a it is a for those of you
Watching for abroad you must have the same there’s another box of cables and a little yack thing handbag thing can you see the owl on the Gable end of that house on the wall end of that house or two owls rather nice we’re on the I’m still suffering from Poison
We’re on the site of Lenton PRI there bit of a bit of stonework there let’s see if we can see anything about it oh so the pillar you see here is part of the Norman Norman rounded East End Of The Pri I’m still suffering from that sewage that
Underpass anyway I think this has been part of a Time team in uh investigation time team in the UK is a TV series that goes around on Earth archaological interest and I believe this has formed part of that we’ll go a bit further I’ve had to rescue a bag out that pile of
Crap don’t ask me why it just sat there there was a bag of bags it was in a bag of bags I’ve rescued it it’s not full of drugs I don’t think no needles I did have a feel around and I never hurt myself oh is
Yeah that uh has really took me breath away I’m going to try to get around the end of here this little church I guess this is Lenton church cuz there might be something of Interest around the other side I’m loving this I’m loving this b75 it’s transformed it I know they say
About loads of bikes but it really has we got a There Ceramics it’s all rather nice get a photo before we go and I’ll put it on the uh group Facebook group group so have a look inside see what there is so this The Hunting Fishing and tithes granted to Lenton PRI were a constant source of tension with the
Local populace who had lived on the and it’s going to go on and on and on and on this is I guess we can Google this I’ll try to find the link welcome to a PRI Sculpture Park a small pocket of not even history I try to go do a
Google and I’ll pop a couple of pictures on the old Facebook Mosaic how beautiful is that another one these little information thing jiggers all right let’s stop and have a look at this I’ve not stopped here before but it’s got promise fish no description so I will
Google the reason I say it’s got possibilities it’s got a table tennis court table and we’ got snow drops wow beautiful spring is on the way beautiful snow drops absolutely amazing I do a lap of the Sculpture Park we have one piece of sculpture and we have these little sign things that are
Going to depict the history of Nottingham which we’ll find a link for on the old YouTube on Facebook rather so I guess my next far into the walls of Nottingham are going include table tennis bat or two and ball or two oh that’s cool that is proper
Cool be a good day for table tennis as well there’s no day in no no wind there another little bit of stone work here so we we’ll stop stop another luk and then I’ll stop the camera and take some pictures look kickstand who needs a kick stand on the bromton everyone asked me
That I do wow this is amazing I don’t know what there is I’m looking through the camera so you tell me what you think we’ve seen as I say I should Google this and see what we can put on the that’s beautiful that is I don’t know when this was
Carved it it says it was carved a long time ago but the detail I mean we still got fingers in his hand here or hers and pleats and pleat in the dresses so how old it is I don’t know well that is beautiful it should have some sort of pagoda put above it
Really show you the church right I’m going to put the uh GoPro away and uh go there with no number place on put the GoPro away and take some pictures for you I’m going to look along the river now smell of wood smoke guess from the guys on the liver board
Boats rather nice views from these balconies on the left there’s a nothing a marina B the kids here many many years ago when it first opened and uh enter a prize draw and won a book can I book ban is one of the beautifully painted water containers that they have on nir boats
I’ll uh I’ve s it home it’s on the uh it’s on the Welsh dresser of rubbish memorabilia I’ll post a photograph of it so you know what a book thean is never been in that Pub byebye Canal back to city center this is Miss out the awful bit of Road Junction
Here now we’re back on to the Super Highway we’re in third gear so I guess I guess we’ve done a full circle I guess this video is going to be incredibly long so if you watched it this far well done but what I’m actually going to do is
Make more than one video out of it so I’m we Sig off from here how many parts I’ve made the video into thank you for watching my little tour of my hometown my well my home City I guess on the beautiful gron p75 sorry mate ding down in the middle of the ccle
Route so thanks for coming along on the ride and uh I’ll see you on the next [Applause] one a [Applause] [Applause] sh [Applause] about hold up for excuse the car well that was an an ending to a video I’m here at Madness Manor thank you for watching if you
Watched all of it it’s much appreciated I had thought of dividing the video up into probably three sections of sort of 20 minutes per section but I couldn’t really make it work that way it was the bike ride was in its entirety a one one what a one day Journey um
So I think true to my soul of what I tried to do with videos I made the video a one a one shot video with un editing I did say in the video that I was going to to cut it down I didn’t it finished at Notting railway station and I’m sorry I
Didn’t do a do an ending um I did actually do an ending but it didn’t really work so thank you for watching Nottingham oodles of bike riding infrastructure good quality psych infrastructure accessible by rail by bus the train service into Nottingham from pretty much all around the country is is
Excellent if your fans com to Nottingham please come along and give me a message look on Facebook look at the Facebook group romt and Nottingham another Facebook group to look at is notan V venturers and another Facebook group is rural rides rural rides there in Nottingham um I’ll probably put a link
Actually on my Facebook page rather than in the description on here in the Facebook group rather um I’ve it was I just touched the surface of cycling in Nottingham notum cycle infrastructure it’s University City students have a big presence in the city um yes I did talk about how the
City council is bankrupt and but then that’s pretty true to most town and city councils as we go through the country but we have to be aware of these things but please if you want to come to Nottingham do so we have an absolutely amazing array of cying infrastructure
Within the city the county of Nottinghamshire has some fantastic tracks and trails we’ve got the trail Center Center at Sherwood Pines in the north of the county we’ve got the um pleasley Veil pleasley Trails the terol trails National cycle Network Route Six although it has been disowned
By S strands still exists still goes from Nottingham through Shard Pines if you’re Ator we’ve got campsites oodles Oodles of entertainment we’ve got the Chesterfield Canal you can get from Nottingham I’m going to say you can ride from Nottingham to York version without going on any roads you can access Chester
Field from Nan without going on any roads you can go up to Sheffield you can can go to Lincoln into Lincolnshire to Boston and it’s an amazing array of good country bike touring whether it be on bromton touring bikes mountain bikes or just for for a day ride you can get the
Train to shybrook or work stop or other areas of the county with the bromton you can go on the local bus service so please come to Nottingham come have a look give us a shout out look at the Facebook groups Nottingham we have a critical mass last Friday of
The month which is always good I’m sorry the video was an Abrupt end I’m sorry the video was an hour long um but I was out to try the bike I was out to try the b75 to give it a good run out to test it out to ride it I
Absolutely loved riding that bike around not him I love the sense of the sense of likeness the sense of it not being having an incumbrance of Bolton Parts other than the actual stand which isn’t a very emotive subject um but so that’s sort of the end that
That concludes the video so I’m here at Madness Manor uh I’m going to upload this overnight and I’m going to enjoy a nice um glass of rum so thank you for coming along on the journey thank you for watching and there will be a lot more in Nottingham Nottingham sh and surrounding
Couns thank you guys