Description: Looking down Poultry towards the junction with High Street and Victoria Street, showing Farmer's General Drapers (on South Parade), and the Flying Horse Hotel (on Poultry). The Flying Horse Hotel is an attractive building bearing the date 1483 on its board (the year in which the Princes were murdered in the Tower). The pub stands upon the site of as house which the Plumptre family erected for themselves when they first came to Nottingham in the 13th century. In 1799 the inn was known as 'The Traveller's Inn,' and in 1813, a great dinner was held within its walls to celebrate the victories over Napoleon. It is not known why its name was changed to the Flying Horse.