ROBERT HOWARD helped Nottingham City Transport prepare a history guide to encourage the public to explore landmarks and amenities along a semi-circular route introduced nearly 40 years ago to link some garden suburbs with a then new hospital

The 31 historic points of interest on NCT’s map for the Orange Line 35. NCT
If you had a bus for a day, where would you take visitors to see Nottingham’s history? That was the question Chris Matthews, one of the city’s leading local historians, asked me at the end of 2013 when he was working with TravelRight, a city council-sponsored project that encouraged people to cycle, walk and use public transport.