Description: A 15th Century Inn, Grade II listed building masked by a Georgian frontage, situated off the Old Market Square. On Goose Fair night 1831, some of the Reform Bill Rioters gathered at the Bell and in the subsequent disturbances many windows were smashed but the building was mercifully spared being set alight. The Inn went through many hands until its final disposal by the Charity Commissioners in 1888 when it was purchased by A.W.Hickling for £7210. For four years, the Bell became a tied house to a brewery. On Trafalgar Day (21st October 1898) Joseph Jackson purchased the Bell Inn for £12,500 moving from an off-licence in Polin Street, Radford, Nottingham. His wife established the 1/-Market Dinners (beef, vegetable, stilton cheese and a pint of ale). Joseph Jackson died in 1913 but his widow continued until her death in 1923. At the public auction on her death, her youngest son, Robert Jackson, purchased the inn back into the family for the sum of £26,000. He Built the Premier 'Snack Bar' in the 1920's. This room served cafe style meals to music from a large cabinet radio gramophone, playing Light long playing 78 inch records usually of light operettas. Robert Jackson died suddenly in 1934 leaving a window, Dorothy Jackson, who continued the family business throughout the difficulties of the 1930s and the Second World War which on 5th May 1940 included a stick of bombs, two only 25 yards away, and a lone Messerschmitt strafing the road and buildings outside. Her son David Jackson joined her on leaving school in 1949, whilst renovating the ground floor public rooms, Dorothy and David Jackson then opened the first floor to public use. All the public rooms have continued to be renovated on a ten year cycle, but every care has been taken to preserve its history and its atmosphere. Jazz and music performances have long been popular at the inn. In January 2002 the Bell Inn was purchased by Hardy and Hansons Plc from the Jackson family.