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Article by Richard Studeny, Notts CAMRA supremo
The Bell originally served as a refectory of the Carmelite monastery
then sited on Beastmarket Hill, just below St James Street Junction.
Henry VIII closed small monasteries in 1536, and then it became a
secular alehouse, taking it's name from the Angelus bell (Latin word
meaning ‘the noon-day bell’) that hung outside the monks’
refectory.
First mention in city archives in 1638.
In 1898 the Jackson family acquired the Bell Inn.
In 1928 Robert Jackson introduced ‘snack-type’ meals, presumably
to feed the workers building the Council House!
In 1957 Jackson started a tradition (first Wednesday in November),
which will hopefully continue now that Hardys & Hansons have acquired
the pub, namely the Presentation of the Presidents tankard –
an engraved silver tankard is presented to the President of the Nottingham
University StudentÂ’s Union (the real one, not the old Poly!).
Two roasted pigs, are served to customers with stuffing, bread, and
apple sauce.
In 1960 The Bell was the first to introduce ‘tanked beer’
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