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Huntingdon Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 3BY

This building sits in a slightly elevated position up a short drive just off Mansfield Rd (A60). It was designed in Elizabethan style - with mullioned windows - by T. C. Hine as one of The Bluecoat School’s earlier sites. It opened in 1853 and functioned here until 1967 when the school's new premises were opened in Aspley Lane. Today the building is the home of the Y.M.C.A. International Community Centre. Modern buildings on the skyline continue to highlight the city's rapidly changing architecture.

The corner of Bluecoat Street at its junction with Mansfield Road (A60) hosts one of the Bluecoat School's previous sites. The former school building was designed by Thomas Hines in Elizabethan style - with mullioned windows - and was opened in 1853. There are statues of a boy and a girl in traditional school uniform in corner niches in the front elevation. The school continued to function here until 1967 when new premises were opened in Aspley Lane. Today the building is the home of the Y.M.C.A. International Community Centre.

From the junction with Huntingdon Street. On the right is Blenheim Court. On the left is the building shown in Image In the distance, right of centre is the brick gable of the former Bluecoat School, now an International Community Centre http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1270611&searchtype=mapsearch .

This is the southern portal of Carrington Tunnel, and marked the exit from Nottingham's Victoria Station. The Station was built in a cutting carved out of the Bunter Sandstone, and the space is now filled by the Victoria Centre. The multi-storey carpark goes down from entrance level, but not underground!

The Victoria Bus station is a very small area to the north of the shopping centre. This view looks across the York Street Woodborough Road junction to the Mansfield Road.

The rear wings represent the earliest part of the factory, dating from c.1825, making it the oldest lace factory in Nottingham. The street frontage, with retail premises on the ground floor, is a later addition, c.1890. Listed Grade II.

A former lace factory of c1825 ("said to be Nottingham's oldest warehouse") that was extended forward in 1881-82 by W.F. & R. Booker in a manner reminiscent of some of Manchester's palazzo warehouses. Grade II listed. Now shops and offices.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm38586

There is an OS benchmark Image on the right hand gatepost of the entrance to the Nottinghamshire YMCA International Community Centre (#61B) next to the nearest shop, 'In Stitches', #63.