Nottingham's biggest free firework display will not be taking place this year. It will be the fifth successive year that the annual Bonfire Night celebration at Forest Recreation Ground has been axed.

So, since 1928, the Goose Fair has been held on the wide open space of Forest Recreation Ground - from which Nottingham Forest FC gets its name. That fact might not occur to you as you’re ...

Members agreed and switched their sticks for a ball and Nottingham Forest Football Club was born. It is because they played their first games at Forest Recreation Ground in Nottingham. This is where ...

They played their first football games, as they had shinty, on the Forest Recreation Ground, a park just to the north of Nottingham city centre. That plot of land had been one of a few marked out ...