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Milton Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 3GL

Some demolition and refurbishment work in the vicinity of the Victoria Centre is visible here from the Trinity Square multi-storey car park. The Grade II-listed former station clock tower dates from c.1900. The tower was designed by A.E.Lambert for the Great Central Railway Company as part of the former Nottingham Victoria railway station. The station was demolished in 1967 but the tower and the present Hilton Hotel were preserved. The Victoria Centre was built in 1967-72. In February 2013 the parent company, Capital Shopping Centres, changed its name to "Intu Properties plc" and the centre was renamed the "Intu Victoria Centre" as part of the company's £25m nationwide re-branding exercise.

View southward, towards Leicester, London Marylebone etc.; ex-Great Central London - Leicester - Nottingham - Sheffield main line, also ex-Great Northern Grantham - Nottingham - Derby line etc. (For details, see Image] and other views). Gresley K3 2-6-0 No. 61950 is heading a Down Class E freight, several years before this great Station and the GC main line were closed.

An unfortunate lack of harmony in this area of Milton Street as the clock tower of the old Victoria Station (circa 1898), the Victoria Centre retail development plus flats and offices (1967-72,) together with the new tower block to the right of them, conspire together in an attempt to win a prize as one of the drabbest parts of Nottingham city centre. This picture was taken from one of upper floors of the Trinity Square multi-storey car park opposite.

Sunday morning - one taxi, one bus! Normally taking a photograph in the middle of this street would be foolhardy.

View northward, towards Sheffield on the ex-Great Central main line, also Derby on the ex-Great Northern. The Up iron ore empties train is probably from Stanton Ironworks and heading for the ironfields south of Grantham: the locomotive is a Thompson O4/8 2-8-0 No. 63873. On the right is a local for Grantham with a Stanier 2-6-4T.

View southward, towards Leicester, Woodford Halse and Banbury/London on ex-GC main line, also Grantham on ex-GN line. The Class 9 train is probably coming from the Denton or Harlaxton outcrops via Belvoir Junction and is bound for either Stanton Ironworks via the GN line and Kimberley or Staveley Works via the GC line: it is headed by Thompson Class O1 2-8-0(rebuilt 12/45 from ex-GC O4). (See also Image], Image], Image]).

B1 Class 61251 "Oliver Bury" about to depart from Platform 7. The engine's shedplate, 34F, shows it was at that time based at Grantham. Above the locomotive is the station's huge overall roof and to the left of it, at road level, the rear of the Victoria Station Hotel (as it then was) and the distinctive clock tower, which is all that remains of Victoria Station. The Victoria shopping centre now occupies the site, with underground car parks at what from 1899-1968 was platform level. I hope historical interest may make up for the poor quality of this scan of a Kodak Brownie print taken when I was eleven.