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Park View Court, Bath Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 1DD

Built as Victoria Dwellings by Bakewell & Bromley, 1875-77. Nottingham's first public housing, "and among the first in the country after the City of London and Liverpool". Grade II listed.

The Victoria Leisure Centre building on Bath Street from the edge of Victoria Park obliquely opposite. Over £9 million has been invested recently to transform this complex into a state-of-the-art fitness facility (entrance on Gedling Street), providing a couple of new swimming pools, a gym, sauna & steam rooms and a relaxation suite, although how the interior of this Victorian building has featured in these changes is unclear from a passer-by’s perspective.

The point at which Robin Hood Street meets Bath Street, the latter presumably being named after the existence of this Victorian swimming pool and public baths complex? The tall red-brick Victorian tenement block is Park View Court that still has age-appropriate landings and staircases that remain open to the elements. Victoria Park is situated opposite the tenement block behind the Funeral Director's premises on the right.

During the autumn of 2014 a new road has been constructed to east of this tall Grade II-listed Victorian tenement block, i.e. Park View Court. The block was built in 1876 by Bakewell and Bromley for Nottingham City Council to accommodate council workers. The block was originally known as Victoria Park View Flats. Victoria Park lies directly ahead opposite the flats. On the right, a plot of land between this new road and the Victoria Leisure Centre seems to have been cleared ready for a new development.

Formerly a public baths, now a leisure centre with two large activity halls. The car park in the foreground still hosts the open air Sneinton retail market.

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.

An extension of Bedford Row, a street that runs parallel with and immediately behind the Victoria Leisure Centre. The roof of the former Baths building is visible behind the tile-covered partly-demolished brick wall. The fenced-in pre-development area is sign-boarded as belong to the Carillion Construction Company. The imposing brick building in the picture is Park View Court, a tall Grade II-listed Victorian tenement block (1876) with landings and staircases that remain open to the elements. Access to these flats are on Bath Street, opposite Victoria Park.

Originally Victoria Baths, Victoria Leisure Centre is now "a brand new £9million state-of-the-art fitness facility. The centre offers a six-lane 25m swimming pool as well as a smaller teaching pool". The view is from Robin Hood Street.

The view across Victoria Park towards its corner entrance on Bath Street. The earliest mention of a recreation ground on this site appeared on the 1845 Enclosure Award map. It named the open space as Meadow Platt Cricket Ground and cited the Mayor and the Aldermen & Burgesses of Nottingham as its owner.