Depart: 14:00 at Nottingham Station
Return: 17:30 Nottingham station bike hire
Length of ride: c10 miles. Flat, very few hills, mostly on traffic free cycleways, easy to moderate difficulty.

Nottingham Left Bank Scheme' was the largest single flood defence scheme ever undertaken by the EA stretching over 27km, protecting more than 16,000 homes. Using City Hire bikes the tour will follow the 'Big Track' route from Trent Bridge through to Attenborough, taking in the work at the Memorial Gardens (listed and registered) and Victoria Embankment, Beeston Weir and Attenborough Village Conservation Area.

Stops:

Depart: 13:45 at Urban Room, 38 Carrington Street
Return: 17:00

There are more than 800 caves underneath Nottingham City Centre, all were hewn out by man. The caves in the city have been catalogued by Nottingham's City Archaeologist, Scott Lomax, including approximately 200 that were rediscovered, by his research since 2016. The tour of some of Nottingham's caves will look at their management including the SPD and cave guide for owners.

‘If a man is poor he had only to go to Nottingham with a mattock, a shovel, a crow, an iron, a chisel or a mallet, and with such instruments he may play mole and work himself a hole or burrow for his family’ - Anon 1870

Tour Lead Scott Lomax
Scott is Nottingham's City Archaeologist with specialisms in Medieval Archaeology and the caves of Nottingham. Scott has amassed significant research into Nottingham's caves, runs regular tours of the resource including the Nottingham Cave Festival and has been heavily involved in the management of the cave resource through the planning system and the development of a Supplementary Planning Document and Cave Guide for Owners. Scott has 15 years of experience working as a field and development management archaeologist.

Resources
https://www.tparchaeology.co.uk/indexn/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-40668609

Depart: 14:05 at Urban Room, 38 Carrington Street
Return: 17:00

The Heritage and Urban Design Team of Nottingham City Council will take a tour around the city centre looking at completed and schemes in progress. Looking at the Carrington Street TH and Nottingham Heritage Action Zone as well as wider Urban Design schemes and placemaking. The tour will include discussions of the challenges of instigating and delivering heritage-led regeneration from Heritage at Risk to Area-based schemes.

Tour Lead Alice Ullathorne
Alice is Heritage Strategy Officer at Nottingham City Council helping to deliver the Nottingham Heritage Strategy alongside stakeholders and the public in Nottingham. One of the key aims of the strategy is to capitalise on heritage within the city through heritage-led regeneration including the Carrington Street Townscape Heritage scheme, Nottingham Heritage Action Zone and Heritage at Risk projects. Alice has nearly 20 years experience working in the public and third sector in the planning sector and delivering heritage projects.

Resources
https://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/building-a-better-nottingham/heritage-regeneration/
https://www.38carringtonstreet.org.uk/

Depart: 14:10 at Urban Room, 38 Carrington Street
Return: 17:00

Tour of Nottingham's leading Architects - TC Hine, Cecil Howitt & Watson Fothergill. Historic England's Research Team have completed a Historic Area Assessment of the city centre as part of Nottingham Heritage Action Zone. Alongside Nottingham Civic Society they will present their findings and inform participants of how that feeds into the Heritage Action Zone, Historic England Designation Project and Development Management.


Tour Leads Dr Jonathan Kewley & Nottingham Civic Society

Dr Jonathan Kewley is an Architectural Investigator at Historic England who has been conducting a Historic Area Assessment of the area within the medieval town wall of the centre of Nottingham as part of the Nottingham Heritage Action Zone.

Nottingham Civic Society have conducted significant research into the most important architects within the architectural history of Nottingham. They have an active role within placemaking in Nottingham through the planning process, grade II Building at Risk project and the local blue plaque scheme.

Resources
https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/heritage-action-zones/nottingham/?gclid=CjwKCAiA45njBRBwEiwASnZT57cAdH8kRuITcz3NLWhab-be_GdHkBKT3ouMD2Hg142CdEhOoFz55RoC9fUQAvD_BwE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cecil_Howitt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_Fothergill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Chambers_Hine

Depart: 14:10 at Urban Room, 38 Carrington Street
Return: 17:00

Nottingham Castle occupies a commanding position on 40m high Castle Rock. In the Middle Ages it was a major royal fortress and occasional royal residence. In decline by the 16th century, it was largely demolished in 1649. The ‘castle’ today is a 17th Century Ducal Palace, burnt down by rioters in 1831 and then restored in 1875 as an Art Gallery by Thomas Chambers Hine.

A £30m HLF project to transform Nottingham Castle doubling visitor numbers to 400k and creating an anchor destination within the East Midlands. A Hard Hat Tour showing progress on the repair scheme to date with the Architects and Project Team.


Tour Lead Cal Warren
Cal Warren is the Nottingham Castle Project Programme Manager with responsibility for the £30m National Lottery Heritage Funded scheme including a reimagining of the interpretation of the castle and extensive repair project. With over 10 years of experience of the delivery of major National Lottery funded projects including Limestone Journeys Landscape Partnership programme.
Zoe Skelding is Lead Architect for the Nottingham Castle Transformation Project from Purcell. She is a conservation accredited architect with extensive experience of working across public, cultural and educational sectors.

Resources
https://www.nottinghamcastle.org.uk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottingham_Castle

Depart: 14:00 Nottingham Station - Bus to Boots Campus
Return: 17:00 Nottingham Station

Tour of Boots Campus led by Chris Matthews of Lincoln University and chair of the East Midlands 20th Century Society. Includes an internationally significant collection (two grade 1 and one grade II* from 1930-70) of 20th century modernist buildings nationally on the 170th year of the establishment of Boots in Nottingham. The tour includes resources from Boots extensive archive.

Tour Lead Chris Matthews
Chris Matthews is a graphic design lecturer and historian. He is chair of the East Midlands Committee of the 20th Century Society and has written a number of books on modernism and social housing. Research topics include an indepth investigation into the Boots Archive.