Your stay in Nottingham will give you great memories for many years to come. But some of the world's leading actors and directors have captured the city's magic for posterity as the backdrop to some much-loved and memorable films.

With blockbuster Robin Hood due for release in May 2010 starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett, here's a round-up of how some of Nottingham's familiar sights have previously been committed to film.

1960 was a prime year in Nottingham's on-screen CV, central to the production of Sons and Lovers based at Brinsley Colliery and Eastwood. We see the miners swarming down the cobbles Eastwood's Wellington Street, where so little had changed since the days of DH Lawrence that the only adjustment needed was to remove the television aerials!

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, also 1960, showcases many iconic city sights. Albert Finney's acting debut directed by Alan Sillitoe tells the story of a factory worker caught between his pregnant part-time lover and a thrilling new flame as he works hard at a cycle manufacturing plant to fund his lusted-after nights out. The late ABC cinema, the retro Savoy cinema and the famous Raleigh Bicycle Works all feature.

1962 sees Nottingham take centre stage in the captivating The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. This tale of a working-class youth committed to borstal where he is encouraged into athletics is peppered with snapshots of the city as our hero gazes into his past at the grim existence that saw him there.

1980s TV series Boon gets in on the act, bursting with glimpses of the city including The Tales of Robin Hood, Theatre Royal ballet, Victoria Shopping Centre, Neales Auctioneers, Co-Op Dairies, HMP Nottingham Prison, Queens Medical Centre, Rosie O'Brien's pump house and Pork Farms.

Nottingham has seen resurgence in recent films. The 2002 Shane Meadows flick Once Upon a Time in the Midlands starring Robert Carlisle, Kathy Burke and Ricky Tomlinson features Porchester Junior School and he previously committed the city to film in 1997 in TwentyFourSeven and 1999, with Romeo Brass.

2007's Magician saw comedians Mitchell and Webb play rival stage conjurors forced to reunite over a guillotine mishap during a magic competition ' staged at Nottingham's very own Theatre Royal. The following year, Jessica Biel, Kristen Scott Thomas and Colin Firth shot Easy Virtue at Flintham Hall and Northgate Railway Station in Newark as well as Retford.

2009 welcomed another flurry of films from our neck of the East Midlands. Bronson, the controversial biopic of violent prisoner Charles Bronson, sees Welbeck Abbey double as Nottinghamshire psychiactric hospital Rampton, and scenes in St Anns, Sherwood, Worksop and Stanford Hall.

We Need to Talk about Kieran shows Café Del Bar, Flirtz nightclub, Market Square, Newstead Abbey and Trent Bridge. RAF Newton gets in on the act in Straw Man and the streets of Giltbrook star in A Boy Called Dad.

Nottingham has been a firm fixture on screen over the decades. And with Sherwood Forest thrust once more into the spotlight in 2010's Robin Hood, this popularity shows no sign of fading.