Description: Showing the Dry Walk. Reminders of the UK industrial history of rope-making remain in street names such as 'Rope-makers Street' in the City of London and 'Rope-Walks' all over the country; Nottingham has The Ropewalk which is up near the old General Hospital. W. Coates and Sons large rope and twine manufacturing business was housed in these premises on Commercial Street. The location now lies beneath the Queens Medical centre. The Company also had a shop at 12 Montpelier Road and is still in business with premises on Montpelier Road in Dunkirk.