Description: Looking along Weekday Cross towards High Pavement from Fletcher Gate, with Pilcher Gate to the left, showing the Windmill Inn in the foreground. The Weekday Cross was an ancient market site, in use from the Anglo-Saxon period until c 1800. A market was held here on Wednesdays and Fridays for butter, eggs, pigeon, wild fowl, fruit and fish. The Monday market for fresh vegetables and butter was moved from Weekday Cross to the 'Monday Cross', now St Peters Square. The south side of the area was removed in the late 19th century to build a tunnel leading to Victoria station. After the Norman Invasion of Britain, Nottingham was divided into two separate boroughs, English Borough and French Borough. The inhabitants of French Borough found it inconvenient to travel to market at Weekday Cross, and so a new market, which was held on Saturdays, was established in what is now the Old Market Square. Gradually, this Saturday market became of great importance and attracted the countryside, but Weekday Cross remained the centre of the domestic trade of Nottingham for many years after the Conquest. Weekday Cross, or Weekday Market, as it was then called, was the civic centre of mediaeval Nottingham, and as such had its bull ring which is mentioned in 1541. It was situated at the end of Fletcher Gate, which was the butchers' quarter in those days, (it is believed that the name Fletcher derived from the saxon for butcher - Fleischer - or 'flesh' worker-seller, rather than the traditionally supposed meaning of 'arrow maker') and it remained there till 1691. The area is at the top of the hill and which was once dotted with windmills, hence the name of the pub.