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Brook Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 1EA

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.

A pre-development area on Brook Street behind the new (2011) £6M Victoria Leisure Centre. Local sign-boarding points to the fact that it is Carillion plc who have the development rights for this site.

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.

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.

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 royal Mail downsized into this building from the adjacent former sorting office (out of view left) which has been converted into apartments.

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.

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.

Remarkably, none of the buildings visible in this view are being used for their original purposes. The low wavy-roofed building was part of the wholesale fruit and veg market that moved from the area some time ago. These are now retail and restaurant units (this is the back of them!) The multistorey building behind is The Exchange, once indeed a telephone exchange, but now completely rebuilt as student flats. Next beyond is the old Brook Street School, now the headquarters of the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, whilst right at the back is the Victoria Leisure Centre, formerly public baths but now housing other sports activities.