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This was formerly the wholesale fruit and vegetable market. The Nottingham City Council website explains that “Work has begun on the redevelopment of Sneinton Market. As an important part of the city's heritage, the work at the market aims to improve the area and reinvigorate the site as a focal point for Nottingham's emerging creative sector. Units on the site are being refurbished into workshops and studios for use by creative enterprises.” Work on the Bath Street side of the market has yet to begin. The Nottingham Post reported that “Traders are hopeful that the £3.85 million redevelopment of Sneinton Market will transform it into the city’s own Covent Garden.”

New build for student accommodation on the site of the former wholesale produce market.

Taken from Sneinton Road. Shipstone's Smith's Arms on the extreme left had become the New Castle by 2020, but other than that the scene was not greatly changed nearly 40 years later.

This was the wholesale fruit and veg market in Sneinton. Since the market re-located, the buildings have been converted for use by snmall businesses, with varying success. For all the efforts of the City Council, the area continues to look a bit jaded.

Formerly the Fox and Grapes, this pub hast been closed for at least a couple of years. It was essentially a market traders' pub serving the wholesale fruit and veg market, part of which can be seen behind. The market was moved to a more transport-friendly site some years ago, but despite trying to modernise, the pub has failed to retain its trade.

The long-defunct Peggers Inn standing on the edge of the former Sneinton Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Market. It is seen here across Southwell Road (B686) from a corner of Manvers Street (A612). It was opened in 1833 as The Fox and Grapes but was renamed later as “The Pretty Windows” - date unknown - in light of the decorative glazing in its bar windows. It was licensed to open at 5.00a.m. each morning to allow market vendors and porters to quench their thirsts. Interestingly it was the scene of a gruesome murder in 1963 involving the fatal stabbing of the landlord, George Wilson, a crime that has remained unsolved. In the 1980s it was relaunched, for some unknown reason, as The Peggars Inn but it closed c.2007. Now however, plans to reopen it in September 2017 under its original name seem to be on target.

Part of the former Sneinton Wholesale Market is in the middle distance. Beyond is the clock tower of Victoria Leisure Centre (originally Victoria Baths) on the other side of the retail market place, and beyond that the distinctive Grade II listed Park View Tenement of 1876, with its gothic-arched open stairwells and pyramidal spirelets.

A semi-derelict part of the former wholesale fruit and vegetable market, a large part of which is being renovated to create a "Creative Quarter" - see Image