Hockley Village
Encyclopedia
Hockley Village is a marketing term for Hockley - an area near the centre of Nottingham
, England
. Hockley Village lies adjacent to the Lace Market
. With many bars, restaurants and trendy clothes shops, it is a vibrant, modern section of the city, and has been described as "the Soho of Nottingham". It is, however, housed in some fine old buildings, and there has been a mercantile presence on the land since at least the 13th century.
The area was originally (from around 1285) called "Walker Gate", from the practice of "walking" or stamping upon cloth to make it softer after weaving. Up until the 20th century Nottingham's fortunes have been tied to the "rag trade" (cloth industry), and from 1343 to 1345 the price of wool in Nottingham Market was taken as the standard for all England. However, it has not always been quite as pleasant as it is now: Sir Jesse Boot, son of the founder of the Boots Company and the man most responsible for turning it into the pharmaceutical empire it is today, was born in poverty in the area in 1850.
Hockley is home to design, fashion, New Age and record shops, and galleries, bars and cafés. It also boasts two arthouse cinemas. The Broadway is "the East Midlands' flagship cinema and production house with an established national and international reputation for film exhibition, production and festivals". One claim to fame was the season of crime thrillers ("Shots in the Dark") it used to hold every year, whose honorary president was Quentin Tarantino
. This apparently came to be after the cinema was the first in the UK to show Pulp Fiction
, straight from the Cannes Film Festival
- complete with French subtitles. The other cinema is the Screen Room
, which is in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's smallest, with just 21 seats.
Nottingham
Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. Hockley Village lies adjacent to the Lace Market
Lace Market
The Lace Market is an historic quarter-mile square area of Nottingham, England.Once the heart of the world's lace industry during the days of the British Empire, it is full of impressive examples of 19th century industrial architecture and thus is a protected heritage area...
. With many bars, restaurants and trendy clothes shops, it is a vibrant, modern section of the city, and has been described as "the Soho of Nottingham". It is, however, housed in some fine old buildings, and there has been a mercantile presence on the land since at least the 13th century.
The area was originally (from around 1285) called "Walker Gate", from the practice of "walking" or stamping upon cloth to make it softer after weaving. Up until the 20th century Nottingham's fortunes have been tied to the "rag trade" (cloth industry), and from 1343 to 1345 the price of wool in Nottingham Market was taken as the standard for all England. However, it has not always been quite as pleasant as it is now: Sir Jesse Boot, son of the founder of the Boots Company and the man most responsible for turning it into the pharmaceutical empire it is today, was born in poverty in the area in 1850.
Hockley is home to design, fashion, New Age and record shops, and galleries, bars and cafés. It also boasts two arthouse cinemas. The Broadway is "the East Midlands' flagship cinema and production house with an established national and international reputation for film exhibition, production and festivals". One claim to fame was the season of crime thrillers ("Shots in the Dark") it used to hold every year, whose honorary president was Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...
. This apparently came to be after the cinema was the first in the UK to show Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction (film)
Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who co-wrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references...
, straight from the Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
- complete with French subtitles. The other cinema is the Screen Room
The Screen Room
The Screen Room was a 21 seat arthouse cinema in the Hockley Village area of Nottingham, England.The combination of a single screen and 21 person capacity have earnt it the title of "the world's smallest cinema",...
, which is in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's smallest, with just 21 seats.
External links
- Broadway Cinema
- the Screen Room, the world's smallest cinema
- Hockley Village on The Open Guide to Nottingham