Description: Showing animals at a water pump at the corner of Lord Nelson Street. Sneinton is the area located adjacent to the old flood plain of the of the River Trent about 2 miles north east of the City of Nottingham. Sneinton 'area' appears to have suffered the fate of many hamlets and villages close to a major town, being swallowed up in the urban sprawl. This was mainly due to the occupants having to move out of Nottingham due to lack of shelter, and move to Sneinton where the sandstone rose out of the ground. The occupants cut into the sandstone to provide a place to live and sleep. This area is now known as the Lace Market (where much later lace would be made in many factories now all but gone)