Albert Hall Map
[osm_map lat="52.954313" lon="-1.1562412" width="100%" height="480px" zoom="13"] A short walk from Nottingham city centre, the Albert Hall has been part of the city's cultural life for well over a century. Today it operates as a conference and concert venue, but its origins lie in the Victorian temperance movement, and the building has undergone dramatic changes - including a fire, a purchase by Methodist missionaries and a royal opening - before reaching its present form.From Temperance Hall to Methodist MissionWork on the first building began in 1873, commissioned as a Nottingham Temperance Hall. The local architect Watson Fothergill won the commission, with Richard Stevenson and Field Weston carrying out the construction. The hall opened on 26 September 1876, though the Mayor of Nottingham presided over a ceremony before the building was fully…