Our latest chat with Nottingham's most opinionated grocers....
Wrestling at Victoria Leisure Centre
What’s amazing about Victoria Leisure Centre – it was one of the last places in the country to have public baths. So you can pay half a crown and have a bath. In Sneinton not many people had baths in the 60s and before. They should bring them back. You can get in a hot tub but everybody’s weed in those. But it makes sense they’d do wrestling there, because there weren’t many places to do it. They’d have covered the oval swimming pool and there’d be a bit of give as it wouldn’t be a concrete floor.
Restaurants
Last time we said there weren’t any restaurants left in Nottingham, but apparently there’s loads. So we take it all back. Piccallili, where Kushi-ya used to be, is apparently very good. Our three favourites back in the day – there was Sonny’s, World Service wasn’t bad, and Harts. Then there was Ben Bowers at the top of Canning Circus. You went downstairs and it looked like a ship.
Poetry Festival
A few years ago we bought a poetry book with all the famous poems in it. We went to a normal comprehensive school and we were never taught all that, so we bought the book to see what’s what. They were fantastic. We might have appreciated it more nowadays, but when you are taught it at school you remember it.
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