NOTTINGHAM 2001
all images © 2001 C W Richards
A few pictures here to show you ex-pats and ex-Nottingham people how the city looks today and how constant change is still taking place in the 'Queen of the Midlands'. Those of you who remember the Black Boy, Drury Hill, Woolworths and Victoria Station are in for a shock!
Places which have vanished since 1970 include the Victoria Railway Station, 'Burtons' in the Council House, The Classic, ABC and Odeon cinemas, the 'Prince Albert' 'Flying Horse' 'Miltons Head' 'Britannia' 'Crystal Palace' and 'Dog and Bear' public houses, most of Canal Street, Central Market next to the Palais, and Pearsons store on Long Row.
Nottingham now buzzes with new trendy bars and all the old buildings in the Lace Market are now being cleaned up and turned into studio apartments for young professionals, with glass walled buildings towering above the older ones. Canal Street now hosts several waterfront bars such as Via Fossa, The Canalhouse and Waterfront, offering cool canalside drinking after a hard day at the office. The decline of manufacturing industry had resulted in many old factories being knocked down without much thought, but like the old Morleys factory at Daybrook, the appearance is being retained while providing housing for people from all walks of life. Nottingham looks odd without its old blackened brickwork!
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The
Turf Tavern, Parliament St, with the Cornerhouse development
behind (replaces old Evening Post building
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The
back of the Odeon,
Angel Row, now closed. The Beatles played here in 1963. |
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Some great cleaned up stone work at Shipstones
Brewery, Basford - 2001. The last pint of Shipstones Mild was
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A
view down St Marys Gate in the Lace Market from my workplace
on Pilcher Gate.
St Marys Church is at the end on the left
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This
pub on Parliament St is now called 'Number 10', but you oldies
will know it as 'The Fox. Great old stonework
here!
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| Victoria Station Clock Tower, with the Victoria Centre flats beyond, on a fine spring morning. Part of the rubble from this station, demolished in 1969, now sits under the Rise Park Estate, under my house in fact!! The Victoria Hotel is now a Hilton Health complex. |
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| Demolition work under way on the Collin Street Viaduct, behind the Broadmarsh Centre in 2000. The new buildings are on Canal Street. This is to make way for the new tram terminus |  |
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| Looking along Angel Row to the forner Odeon and ABC cinema (wrapped in its demolition plastic. Most of Chapel Bar (including Smalleys hatshop) is now no more. The letters 'ODEON' are just visible behind the second phone wire. |  |
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| Yates Wine Lodge on Long Row - now with added front top floor 'conservatory' and new signage. This was the place to be in 1979, when students drank mild, bitter and Australian wine and listened to the piano and violin players in the gallery above. I once settled in a seat without a drink and was asked by the glass collector - 'yer suppin' or what?' |  |
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| Alfreton Road being rebuilt at the Raleigh Street junction. The former bank on the corner is now a pub, and work continues on these flats. |  |
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| Chapel Bar demolition on a fine summers day. The ABC cinema would have been on the end at the left. |  |
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