Nowadays it's better known as the Galleries of Justice. If you want to find out more about law and order in Nottingham then you might want to consider stopping off here.

The sign to the old police station can still be seen

A little further on you'll pass an old police station. On the opposite side of the road you'll see a gap between buildings that is now used as a car park. This was the result of a bombing raid during World War Two. From the 1950's to the present there have been occasional sightings of the Black Red Start, one of the rarest birds in Britain. Have you seen it?

Next comes Garner Hill, one of the footways into the city. You've now reached the summit of the mound on which the original Nottingham town was built.

When the Anglo Saxons colonised Nottinghamshire they established the fortified borough of Snotengaham on a steep sandstone outcrop. The name meant the "ham" of the people of Snot. Luckily for the locals the Normans later dropped the unattractive "S".

A fig tree that has taken up residence on Garner Hill

To your left you'll see an open grassy area. This is another part of the city bombed during the Second World War. Today it offers a patch of greenery in the busy centre but look closer and you'll also see unusual vegetation like a fig tree that has established itself.

The more intrepid of you might like to peer over the garden wall towards the end of this open area. If you look down you'll see evidence of the old Great Central railway line. This is the route that used to lead from Midland (Nottingham) station to Victoria station.

The latter is long gone (the line was closed in 1968), being replaced by the Victoria shopping centre. From your vantage point you'll see the old line disappear at Weekday Cross underneath the Lacemarket. Today it carries steam heating pipes for the District Heating scheme from Cattlemarket incinerator to the flats built above the Victoria Centre.

Please take care - don't let children look over here in case they fall.