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Bath Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 1BZ

By M.H. Bristow of the Ministry of Works, 1968-69. A linked pair of white-clad towers. Its 200 feet makes it one of the city's tallest buildings.

William Abednego Thompson, better known as Bendigo, was an English prizefighting boxing champion. Born in 1811 and Died in 1880. The grave is situated in St Mary's Rest Garden

You didn’t know of Bendigo! Well, that knocks me out! Who’s your board school teacher? What’s he been about? Chock-a-block with fairy-tales full of useless cram, And never heard o’ Bendigo, the pride of Nottingham! Bendy’s short for Bendigo. You should see him peel! Half of him was whalebone, half of him was steel, Fightin’ weight eleven ten, five foot nine in height, Always ready to oblige if you want a fight. I could talk of Bendigo from here to kingdom come, I guess before I ended you would wish your dad was dumb. -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bendy's Sermon Poem William Abednego Thompson was born in Nottingham in 1811. He was universally known as Bendigo, a prize bare-knuckle fighter who became champion of England in 1839. He was unbeaten in 21 fights. He died in 1880 but is still remembered in his home city where his grave is here in St Mary's Rest Garden. The lion has weathered somewhat over the intervening years but he does look suitably sad.

A public toilet block opposite a pedestrian entrance into the park. The footpath links Bath Street - behind the photographer - and Harcourt Terrace - behind the white, single-storey Jehovah Witnesses' Church ahead.

Big 1960s or 1970s office block and depot as seen from Bath Street. John Beniston tells me that it was built in the late 1960s for the GPO as a "mechanised Parcel Concentration (sorting) Office, and offices for Nottingham's head postmaster". It closed in the early 1990s. At the time partly occupied by Hertz car rental. An application in 2006 to demolish and replace with a residential tower was clearly either rejected or stymied by the recession. The telephone exchange is behind (Image]).

A row of tall brightly painted houses known as Promenade (rather than The Promenade) and the maroon-painted door of a Jehovah Witnesses' Church viewed from a Bath Street entrance to Victoria Park. The earliest mention of a recreation ground on this site appeared on the 1845 Enclosure Award map. It referred to this field as Meadow Platt Cricket Ground, citing the Mayor and the city leaders as its owner.

These gates and associated boundary wall separate Victoria Park from St Mary's Rest Garden (an extension of the main park). It was the urgent need for more cholera-related burial plots that lead to the development of this site. The Quaker grocer Samuel Fox donated part of the plot but soon afterwards St Mary's Church had to purchase the rest of it (another 6 acres) from him at a cost of £867, something that caused consternation since the Archdeacon at that time had offered a different site for this purpose free of charge. Originally consecrated as St Ann's Cemetery in 1835, it became known as St Mary's Cemetery later.

Situated halfway along Bath Street (originally known as Meadow Platt Road) and opposite Victoria Park, this building opened in 1872 as the first school in Nottingham for disabled children. Most recently it was used as an annexe of New College Nottingham until 2013/2014. However, it is currently (i.e. mid/late 2015) being refurbished as a school for approximately 100 students from the East Midlands - ages of 3-19 years - diagnosed as autistic. It is due to open as "Sutherland House School" in January 2016.