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Bathley Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 2LJ

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.

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 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.

Formerly a Boots shop and tea rooms by the company's resident architect, A.N. Bromley, 1905. In a reversal of the usual process, it is now a pub.

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.

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.