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Turney Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 2LG

Originally built in 1902 as a works for the Nottingham Corporation tram system, the Bunbury Street building then serviced trolleybuses until 1965. The doorways are tall enough to take double-deckers and the tram and trolleybus overhead wires.

One of many drab days in the disappointing summer of 2012. The former Turney Brothers' Trent Bridge Leather Works, now flats, is the four-storey building in the distance.

The Meadows area was extensively redeveloped in the 70s, with large swathes of old housing being demolished. Some of the older housing was, however, retained, and this street scene shows the old meeting the new, with the older houses on the right-hand side of the road, and the newer on the left.

Former Boots Institute and shop in mock Tudor style now converted into a business and social club. It was built around 1907 as a chemist's shop and the Olde English Café. In 1922 the shop part developed into Boots's social club with the addition of billiard room, lounge and dance hall.

The impetus behind the open day was to ensure local interest among the public in maintaining locally owned bus services following the removal of bus service licencing under the 1985 Transport Act. As well as the undertaking’s own vehicles (the green and cream buses), vehicles from other organisations were also on display. In the centre is a new articulated bus for South Yorkshire Transport in Sheffield, to the right a preserved pre-war Trent Motor Traction single decker and to the left an articulated tanker from the undertaking’s fuel supplier’s fleet. The works building was built in 1901 as a combined running shed and repair facility for the city's electric trams. It served subsequently for some time as a bus garage before being re-purposed as the main overhaul facility for the undertaking's bus fleet. It is still (2024) in use as such. The building is Listed Grade II.

The Topknot Hair and Beauty establishment, with its crow-stepped gables and vaguely Baltic look, has been a Trent Bridge landmark for a century, in former times carrying a large advertisement for Pork Farms pork pies. The half-timbered house to the left is the first of the rather grand Edwardian houses on Fraser Road which back on to Victoria Embankment. In the days of trolleybuses, this was the stop for the 45 Trent Bridge to Wollaton service, which, like the 41 Cinderhill and 43 Bulwell Market terminated and turned just to the left of here, on the Embankment, where the majority of the city-bound stops were.