Radford Boulevard: The Student Lodge
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Radford Boulevard: The Student Lodge
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 20 Apr 2015
These buildings were built as offices for John Player & Son, the tobacco company. The grey middle section bridges Player Street, which was closed to motor traffic after a fire on 30 March 2015 destroyed the Victorian factory buildings which were being converted to student accommodation. The white building, which replaced a Victorian one, was built as late as the 1960s, shortly before Player's moved from Radford to a new factory in Dunkirk designed by Arup Partners. In the Pevsner Architectural Guide to the city, Elain Harwood writes: “Radford House, Player’s former offices, by McMorran & Whitby (1965-7) is weatherboarded, with neo-colonial C18 sashes and columned entrance (condemned as 'superficial' by the City Architect David Jenkin)."
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Image Location
Latitude
52.961894
Longitude
-1.176684