Lace Market

The Lace Market is a historic district in Nottingham that was once the global centre of the machine-made lace industry. Its dense grid of tall red-brick Victorian warehouses, with elegant façades and iron detailing, was built to store, showroom and finish lace during the trade's 19th-century boom. When the industry declined the buildings fell empty, but they were later restored and converted into apartments, offices and creative spaces. A medieval church and traces of the town's ancient defences survive amid the industrial architecture.