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Yahoo
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Thousands expected along Caribbean Carnival route
Nottingham's Caribbean Carnival is returning to the city's Victoria Embankment. The event, which has been running for almost 70 years in Nottingham, will take place on 17 August. Thousands of spectators are expected along the carnival parade, which starts at the Embankment and travels through the Meadows. A programme of entertainment will run from 13:00 to 20:00 BST at the ticketed Carnival Village, off Wilford Grove. The carnival first took place in the city in 1958, organised by people who had moved to Nottingham from St Kitts, the city council said. Events took place sporadically between then and the early 1990s, before it was cancelled in 1998 over health, safety and financing concerns. However, the community's outcry in response to the cancellation prompted a march in the city centre, establishing today's carnival in 1999, the authority added. More than 400 costumes are expected to be paraded along this year's route, starting at the Victoria Embankment, then through Wilford Grove, Felton Road and Green Street. The parade will then make its way back down to the Embankment via Bunbury Street, returning to the Carnival Village via Wilford Grove. Entertainment will include singer Etana and BBC 1Xtra DJ Seani B, as well as other performances. There will also be a number of food and drink stalls and fairground rides at the Carnival Village. Follow BBC Nottingham on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@ or via WhatsApp on 0808 100 2210. Related internet links Nottingham Carnival Nottingham City Council
BBC News
17-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
New frog mascot for revamped Victoria Embankment padding pool
Council bosses say a new frog-shaped litter bin will honour a previously-loved statue at Nottingham's new-look Victoria Embankment paddling popular summer attraction closed in 2021 because of ongoing maintenance problems but will re-open later this decades, a concrete frog had been the centrepiece of the pool until it was vandalised beyond repair in City Council said the new bin, which it has named Victor, will "take pride of place" at the revamped site. A spokesperson for the authority said it had conducted an oral history project with local care homes and local families who had childhood memories at the said: "The stories of the frog were very much prominent in people's minds."Children now don't remember him, but certainly the older generation, and the generation of the paddling pool users through the fifties and sixties, they very much remember him."The council said it could not bring back the concrete frog so the re-opened pool would refer to the creature in its "artwork and signage", as well as the new bin. The spokesperson continued: "We've actually been taking Victor [the bin] out and about for different photo shoots, gradually making his way to the pool."Victor's name was selected to pay homage to the name of the park in which he would reside, the Victoria a spokesperson for the Nottingham Civic Society said they had no objections about the replacement frog."I would take the view that if the kids like them, who am I to say otherwise," they told the BBC."As it wasn't Grade II listed then it ought to be alright."
