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George Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 3BN

The doorway of a building designed by H Alderman Dickman in 1924. For the wider context, see Image

Viscosa House (1924) is on the left - for a detail, see Image Beyond are the tower of the Central Methodist Mission (R C Sutton, 1876) and the Victoria Centre high-rise flats. The bus, bound for Boots at Beeston, is about to turn left into Parliament Street.

One has to overlook its unappealing exterior to appreciate a few Deco details (e.g. Image], though actually not very Deco). Built in 1924 by H. Alderman Dickman. Appears to be home to a dentist's practice now.

Built as the Motor Auction Mart in 1922 by H. Alderman Dickman. Some effort has gone into the design - at least three different colours of brick, and, above the entrance, a Diocletian window.

The three terraced houses on the right originally had attic workshops whose double windows provided light for frame knitting. For a closer look, see Stephen Richards’ Image

The three terraced houses on the left originally had attic workshops whose double windows provided light for frame knitting. For a closer look, see Stephen Richards’ Image

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm34422

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).

I was taken with this view of three pointed spires in a line, and their contrast with late 20th-century styles. The first pinnacle is the octagonal French-chateau-style roof of the oriel corner turret of Watson Fothergill's Offices, 15 George Street, the second, clearly outlined against a backdrop of the Victoria Centre tower block, the simple pyramidal cap of the red-brick tower of Parliament Street Methodist Church and the third, three-quarters of a mile away at the crest of Mansfield Road, the High Victorian limestone spire of St Andrew's Church. The Tuscan columns of the porch of the Nottingham (formerly Co-op) Arts Theatre, originally a Baptist chapel, sneak into the right foreground. The rest of the north end of George Street is pretty dull stuff.

Relics of the C19th hosiery industry, the attic windows providing light for workers on the knitting machines, or stocking frames (they might have been altered since).