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Old Lenton Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 3AB

A view of the Lower Parliament Street end of Broad Street. On the left is Screen 22, "the smallest, digital single-screen cinema in the World (awaiting confirmation)". It has 22 seats and "a brand new state of the art sound & visual system and it is also one of only a handful cinemas in the UK with Active 3D". Opposite this 'mini-cine' is "The Lord Roberts", a theatrically themed pub named after the last Commander-in-Chief of the British military forces prior to the post being abolished in 1904.

With George Street 25-30 metres behind the photographer, this is a view towards Broad Street where the two potted conifers are decorating a section of the latter. The decorated wall is part of The Arts Theatre. The Arts Theatre that is operated by volunteers through a charity, The Co-Operative Arts Theatre Trust. Clumber Evangelical Chapel is the prominent white building on High Cross Street.

At the junction with Old Lenton Street. Just ahead on the right is Image Visible on the left is a corner of Image http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1247548&searchtype=mapsearch . At the end of the street is the tower of the Central Methodist Mission Image

Of two builds, the nearer, of 1938, in the Post Office's neo-Georgian house style, an extension to the brick and terracotta original of 1898-99, by A.N. Bromley, itself enlarged by Bromley in 1907. Converted to flats c2002 (Castle Exchange).

This former 22 seater cinema was once accepted as "the smallest cinema in the world" by the Guinness Book of Records and functioned as such between 2011-2016. However, from late 2017 it has been owned by Savoy Systems that builds and manages point-of-sale computer sales software for independent cinemas in the UK. Since early 2023 "Screen 22" cinema has been rebranded "Mammoth: A Climate Action Cinema" and it now predominantly screens film showings that favour this perspective. The two flats above the business premises are owned by the company and rentable. Old Lenton Street can be seen more-or-less straight ahead. A left hand turn here leads vehicles and pedestrians past the much larger Broadway cinema (a 30 second walk).

The splendidly exuberant building in the centre was designed as his offices by Nottingham's most celebrated Victorian architect, Watson Fothergill. In 2015 the corner oriel was damaged by a careless lorry driver, and the damage was repaired in 2018. To prevent another accident a cast-iron bollard has been set into the pavement. See Image] and Image For more photographs of this building and others by Fothergill, see David Lally's https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/The-Buildings-of-Watson-Fothergill .

Old houses and shops with 18th-century facades and framework-knitters' windows on the third floor. These windows let in the light so essential for stockingers, and are some of few left in a city where once there were many.

On the left are some old houses and shops with 18th-century facades and framework-knitters' windows on the top floor. These windows let in the light so essential for stockingers, and are some of few left in a city where once there were many. Image] was taken a few years ago, before the mural appeared on the newish bricks of the end wall.

A view towards George Street from Broad Street showing one side of "The Arts Theatre". Above the second ground floor window is a sandstone plaque whose faded inscription reads: "This building was erected by voluntary contributions for the instruction of poor children MD C C CXIX". Given that the Arts Theatre, whose main entrance is on George Street, was originally a Baptist Chapel, perhaps the section behind the chapel was either supported by the local Baptist congregation or was built on land donated (or sold) by them, for this purpose?

The remarkable building to the left is Watson Fothergill's Offices. For other views of it, see Image] and Image], and for more about Nottingham's best known Victorian architect and pictures of most of his buildings, see http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/The-Buildings-of-Watson-Fothergill .