From Eisenhower to Brian Clough the Old Market Square has hosted many civic parades
Local writer Derrick Buttress explores how folk have marched through Nottingham’s Old Market Square over the decades.
Read his essay on The Space
Click the image above and take a closer look at a very dapper Duke of Edinburgh inspecting a guard of honour by the 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters outside Cecil Howitt’s Council House in 1949.
Picture Credit: Courtesy of Nottingham Evening Post and www.picturethepast.co.uk
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