The Trent Bridge Inn overlooking the cricket ground from one corner in the behind, looks much lived in, heavy with history and a landmark the Notts are proud off. It is one of the oldest living buildings of the city and was there much before the cricket ground was made. The long-standing local landmark was not always known as the Trent Bridge Inn. An 1838 map shows it up as the “Three Horses Shoes and Crown” which got demolished in 1890 after which the present structure was built, to be last refurbished for 3 million pounds in 2011 by the Weatherspoon family. Back in the 19th century, this inn was used as a resting place for travellers before they could enter the city next morning. The inn was instrumental in creating the cricket ground which was set up in competition to the one owned by the town council. The first cricket match here was created by William Clarke in 1838 who was the captain of the Nottinghamshire cricket team. He had married Mary Chapman, the landlady of the Trent Bridge Inn and they had arranged for the land behind the inn to be made into a cricket ground.
