We don’t like to blow our own trumpet (oh, we definitely do), but Nottinghamshire has produced some very important people over the centuries.
From literary hero D.H. Lawrence to fashion pioneer Sir Paul Smith, our amazing county has been home to all kinds of special people.
And those people, in turn, have done some pretty special things.
In fact, some of the things you may well have used today were invented by people from Nottinghamshire.
Here are eight of the best inventions that were created by people from Nottinghamshire.
9. The MRI Scanner
Magnetic resonance Imaging (MRI) was pioneered by University of Nottingham physicist Sir Peter Mansfield in the 1970s. His groundbreaking work used magnetic waves to create internal images of the human body and transformed the medical landscape. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2003. Photo: ALAIN JOCARD
10. Bicycle gears
James Samuel Archer, 1854-1920, was the co-inventor of the famous Sturmey-Archer gears, the three-speed bicycle gears. He lived in Nottingham, and worked at the Raleigh Cycle Company. Before Archer's invention, uphill cycling largely involved 'putting you back into it' and, in the years since, many more gears have been added to modern bicycles. Although, sadly, Raleigh never seemed to grasp that children might need more than three well into the 1980s. Photo: LIONEL BONAVENTURE
11. The Video Recorder (VCR)
Long confined to history, the VCR was a game changer in the 1980s, when life only offered three television channels and watching a new film involved a trip to a fag smoke-filled 'flicks'. But the first video player was pioneered in Nottinghamshire in 1957 by Norman Rutherford and Michael Turner. Called Telcan or 'television in a can', it cost £60, and could record 20 minutes in black and white. Whilst its longevity was even less impressive than Betamax, it would pave the way for DVDs and all that would follow. And never again would young people have to venture outside to keep themselves amused.(Photo by Ian Waldie/Getty Images) Photo: Ian Waldie