Old Market Square

A celebration of one of Britain's great civic squares. A ceaseless flow of buses and people crisscross the beating heart of the city.

By 1951, when this film was made as part of Nottingham's Festival of Britain celebrations, nearly twenty-five years had elapsed since the great civic upheaval that saw the city's centuries old market and annual Goose Fair ousted from the square for a new and imposing Council House. Since then 'meeting by the left lion' (the favoured of the Joseph Else designed sculptures) has started many a Nottingham night-out or relationship.

Members of the Nottingham and District Film Society were behind the camera for this well made look at life in Old Market Square.