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Woodborough Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 1AZ

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.

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!

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 .

Retaining wall for the cutting in which Nottingham's Victoria Station was built. The Station site is now occupied by the Victoria Centre, a large modern centre with flats over and multi-storey car parks. Parts of the latter occupy the northern part of the site where this view is taken.

A view of the Victoria Centre from the junction of Woodborough Road and Huntingdon Street. Beyond the wall in the foreground the Great Central Railway excavated a huge hole in the sandstone in which Victoria Station stood until it was demolished in the late 1960s and replaced by the Victoria Centre. The main entrance to the station was on Mansfield Road, but only the copper-domed clock tower (just left of centre) remains.

Looking into the deep cutting of what was once the Great Central Railway's Victoria Station. To the left a multi-storey car park and to the right the massive retaining wall.

This is the later site, the original bus station having been absorbed into the shopping centre for retail expansion. It is used by services to places outside Nottingham, in the sector from Northwest to Northeast