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Stonebridge City Farm
Volunteers and Clients are at the heart of everything that we do here. The thinking behind the project is to offer real work experience to people who are excluded from paid work due to a learning or physical disability or difficulty. We also offer experience to individuals who may have been unable to work due to mental health problems or addictions.
By opening up opportunities to work on the farm, volunteers and clients learn how to get on with others in a group situation, take on tasks for themselves and to support or be supported by others depending on ability. Over time they will build up confidence in their abilities and increase their self esteem. Stonebridge offers an environment for individuals to express themselves and learn social skills as well as picking up experience of working. Volunteers and clients time with us varies. Some have been with us for 12 years! most stay for a couple of years and then move on, to college, employment or further training.

GEORGE GREEN AND HIS MILL
There is nothing very remarkable about Green's Windmill in Nottingham. It is typical of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of windmills that were once a common sight in this country. Built at the beginning of the 19th century, it was worked for over six decades producing flour for bakeries and animal feed for the many horses in the town. Then, faced with increasing competition from the larger and more efficient steam powered roller mills, it was abandoned and allowed to fall into ruin.
And yet, on 2nd December 1986 Green's Mill ground grain to flour for the first time in over 120 years. It had been restored as a memorial to George Green who, unlike his windmill, was very remarkable indeed. As well as being a hard working miller, Green was one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century. He had a passion for mathematics from a very early age. He investigated the behaviour of electricity and magnetism, light and sound, wave motion and other natural phenomena. To do so he devised a whole new way of doing mathematics which is now used by scientists and engineers the world over. Indeed Green's Theorem and Green's functions, as they are called, are now put to work in almost all branches of the physical sciences.

Princess River cruise
Our professional and fully trained staff are there to take the hassle out of any preparations for your special occasion so that you can concentrate on the finer details of your function and clear the way for you to totally enjoy the "Princess" River cruise experience.

Wollaton Hall and Park
Set in over 500 acres of historic deer park, Wollaton Hall is a spectacular Tudor building, designed by Robert Smythson and completed in 1588, it is now the home to the city's Natural History Museum. Wollaton's Courtyard Stables are home to the city's Industrial Museum, Steam Engine House, Wollaton Visitor Centre and the Yard Gallery, a vibrant exhibition space with a changing programme of exhibitions exploring art and the environment.

Welcome to Angel Row Gallery
Angel Row Gallery provides enriching and challenging experiences through the presentation of quality contemporary visual arts. Admission is free.

Robin Hood
Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the medieval era who, in modern versions of the legend, is famous for robbing the rich to feed the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny. He operates with his "seven score" (140 strong) group of fellow outlawed yeomen – called his "Merry Men". Robin Hood and his band are usually associated with Sherwood Forest and Nottinghamshire. He has been the subject of numerous movies, books, comics and plays.

In many stories Robin's nemesis is the Sheriff of Nottingham. In the oldest legends, this is merely because a sheriff is an outlaw's natural enemy, but in later versions, the despotic sheriff gravely abuses his position, appropriating land, levying intolerable taxation, and unfairly persecuting the poor. In some tales the antagonist is Prince John, based on John of England, seen as the unjust usurper of his pious brother Richard. In the oldest versions surviving, Robin Hood is a yeoman, but in some versions he is said to have been a nobleman, the earl of Loxley (Locksley), who was unjustly deprived of his lands. Sometimes he has served in the crusades, returning to England to find his lands pillaged by the dastardly sheriff. In some tales he is the champion of the people, fighting against corrupt officials and the oppressive order that protects them, while in others he is an arrogant and headstrong rebel, who delights in bloodshed, cruelly slaughtering and beheading his victims.

In point of fact, Robin Hood stories are different in every period of their history. Robin himself is continually reshaped and redrawn, made to exemplify whatever values are deemed important by the storyteller at the time. The figure is less a personage and more of an amalgam of the various ideas his "life" has been structured to support.

Places to visit and things to do in Nottingham