I was born and raised in Nottm.
I'm descended from a bloke from Derbys. (Crich) who moved his family via Chesterfield, (Unstone) around 1870... to a new coal mine at Bestwood, which is part of a former hunting estate bequeathed by Charles II, to Nell Gwynn and her offspring... who became the Dukes of St Albans.
My Great Great Grandfather is still planted in St Mark's churchyard at Bestwood Colliery..where he was interred around 1898.My paternal Grandparents kept the pub in the same village.
My maternal Grandfather came from Nottm too. He was descended from a line of railway workers .. mostly Signalmen. going back to around 1850. They in turn were descended from a Canal Lock Keeper on the Derby Canal.
I left Nottm around 1970..due to an attack of matrimony... but at least pre-Covid, visited several times a year. My family..or what remains.. are still there.
Nottingham is a great city, which seems to suffer from the selective myopia of the media, and has only recently been noticed due to Covid among students there...after previously being noticed as the origin of Dr Harold Shipman.. who I was at school with. Did I ever mention that?
The surrounding areas are all of interest, as has been alluded to above.
There is no doubt that the Luddites originated in the Frame Knitting areas around Nottm. Read 'The Luddites'. or similar texts:
There’s no evidence Ludd actually existed—like Robin Hood, he was said to reside in Sherwood Forest—but he eventually became the mythical leader of the movement. The protestors claimed to be following orders from “General Ludd,” and they even issued manifestoes and threatening letters under his name.
The first major instances of machine breaking took place in 1811 in Nottingham, and the practice soon spread across the English countryside. Machine-breaking Luddites attacked and burned factories, and in some cases they even exchanged gunfire with company guards and soldiers. The workers hoped their raids would deter employers from installing expensive machinery, but the British government instead moved to quash the uprisings by making machine-breaking punishable by death.
Nottingham is in the south of the County of Notts. The area to the North is largely comprised of 'The Dukeries'., which are dismissed at your peril.
Go for it.. Or as we we say.. 'Gufforit Miduck'
P.S. Last time I looked.. Grimethorpe and Mexboro were in South Yorks, not Notts.