Report - Nottingham Guildhall and Police Station - February 2024

[Tobin]

THE HISTORY

Nottingham Guildhall was built in 1887 to 1888 to replace the previous Nottingham Guild Hall on Weekday Cross.
Following a competition with Alfred Waterhouse as the judge, the French Renaissance Revival design by the architects Thomas Verity and George Henry Hunt was chosen.
Gabbutts of Liverpool were chosen as contractors much to the annoyance of local building companies.
The initial estimate for the building was £128,416 (equivalent to £13,759,981 in 2021), and immediately the council asked Verity and Hunt to simplify the design.
The building as erected contained the Police (magistrates') Court. the Central Police Station and the new Fire Station.
(Shameless wiki copy, sorry)

THE EXPLORE

A pretty spontaneous visit one Saturday morning, very uneventful but a nice mooch none the less.The place is pretty trashed compared to a few years back, but ill share my experience with you anyway.

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Thanks for looking​

 

[Ojay]

Some decent posts, keep 'em coming

 

[HughieD]

Nice report. Still looks pretty damn fine to me. Need to get this one done.

 

[Bugsuperstar]

That’s very nice!

 

[mockney reject]

Thats stunning, nice report too

 

[The Young One]

Who the fuck spray painted in there?
It was pristine according to @UrbandonedTeam s video

 

[mookster]

Who the fuck spray painted in there?
It was pristine according to @UrbandonedTeam s video

It's had tagging in it for a long time

 

[Bikin Glynn]

Who the fuck spray painted in there?
It was pristine according to @UrbandonedTeam s video

pretty clean when I did it here Report - - Nottingham Guildhall / Courts- Feb 22 | Other Sites

I agree its fkin terrible & cant believe its been open for 2yr & they just dont give a fk about it

 

[TalkingMask]

pretty clean when I did it here Report - - Nottingham Guildhall / Courts- Feb 22 | Other Sites

I agree its fkin terrible & cant believe its been open for 2yr & they just dont give a fk about it

I hate seeing lovely places get tagged like, what goes through someone’s head when they see something pristine and think ‘yeah I want to put squiggly lines on it’

If it was coloquix art or something then it wouldn’t be too bad but it’s always the shite tags

 

[Bikin Glynn]

I hate seeing lovely places get tagged like, what goes through someone’s head when they see something pristine and think ‘yeah I want to put squiggly lines on it’

If it was coloquix art or something then it wouldn’t be too bad but it’s always the shite tags

totally agree, I guess its the same mentality who set fire to places, all very odd IMO

 

[Calamity Jane]

Very nice update. The place is still very much worth a look. Great photos, the opening shot and the stairs are my favs

 

[Mr Budge]

fuck, i don't recall seeing any graffiti here a year ago

 

[dctraining]

Looks super cool! I've seen this from the outside but didn't realize it was so beautiful on the inside. I was a bit worried about disturbing anyone taking shelter there, did you run in to any problems?

 

[DustySensorPhotography]

Very nice, doesn’t look like it’s changed at all in the last few years except for the crests being removed from the courtrooms🤔

 

[Bazza74]

pretty clean when I did it here Report - - Nottingham Guildhall / Courts- Feb 22 | Other Sites

I agree its fkin terrible & cant believe its been open for 2yr & they just dont give a fk about it

If it’s been open for 2 years I'm surprised it doesn’t look way worse than that!