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Nottingham

Nottingham
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About Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located 42 miles (68 km) south-east of Sheffield and 54 miles (87 km) north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham is the legendary home of Robin Hood's belligerent Sheriff of Nottingham, and is historically associated with the lace-making, bicycle and tobacco industries. The city is also the county town of Nottinghamshire and the settlement was granted its city charter in 1897, as part of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Nottingham is a UNESCO “City of Literature”

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Every single Bramley Apple comes from one Bramley Apple tree in Nottingham, and it's so popular in Japan that the mayor of a town there and all the people from his town flew over to visit it.

from 194: No Such Thing As An Orange Crocodile, 2017-12-01 at 00:03:33 · read transcript

Other times Nottingham came up

  1. She sort of officially unveiled it, got onto the tram for the inaugural ride, and then the conductor said, what is your ticket? Then she said, well, I don't have one. I'm Vicky McClure. He said, yeah, yeah, we're all Vicky McClure. Get off. Yeah. Nottingham has a lot of trams named after people. There's a lot of them. There's a lot of them. I'm going to say a few names. Martin Polyakov, scientist. Yes.

    457: No Such Thing As An Acoustic Tram, 2022-12-16 · listen

  2. Yes, as well as variations in the size of the ball. There were variations in early matches between the kind of football code that you would use. There were the Sheffield rules and the Nottingham rules. Some, some matches took different sets of rules even for the first and second halves of the game. In the early days as well, they turned up with different numbers of players.

    17: No Such Thing As A Bassoon In A Football Stadium, 2014-07-11 · listen

  3. That's how it was like Eurovision, right? They did give France a special award for debris, but they basically all said, we think our cheese is best. I think of Nottingham sort of anything, is that cheese contest don't lighten things up. No. and they actually make things turn pretty ugly. I always, there's a sort of famous fact that the Dutch once killed and ate their prime minister in a riot.

    No Such Thing As An Orange Crocodile, 2017-12-01 · listen

  4. Is just on paper really and in a way you could say that this person's money is just on paper as well because this person has got 63 quadrillion pounds but they can only spend it in one particular coffee shop in Nottingham because someone gave them a gift card and there was a little typo on the gift card and the 10 pound balance to this place called 200 degrees coffee actually came through as 63 quadrillion.

    Little Fish: Still Rockin' The Cloaca, 2026-05-10 · listen

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