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Campbell Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 1GZ

An elegant terrace connected to Robin Hood Terrace and backing on to Promenade. This is the east end of the north row. The end terrace was once a Shipstone's off-licence: its corner door and shop front have been replaced with new brickwork and appropriate twelve-light sash windows. The row is Grade II listed: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-454876-1-to-19-campbell-grove-#.VeDY3SiwHZY .

Paxton Gardens leads off Stonebridge Road. This area was comprehensively redeveloped in the 1960s and '70s when vast numbers of 19th century houses, built for the working poor and widely condemned as slums, were demolished.

Robin Hood Terrace (ahead, left) dates from the middle of the nineteenth century, the two-storey houses on Harcourt and Foljambe Terraces from later in the Victorian period.

Below can be seen former textile factories now converted to flats or light industrial use.

Looking from the Lamartine Street end towards Robin Hood Terrace on a bright June morning.

The modern St Ann's, a large Nottingham inner city social housing area, is a good example of a Radburn estate - a design that was very fashionable from the 1960s to the 1980s. The idea was to ruthlessly separate cars and pedestrians so that all the houses face on to walkways and cars are kept on access roads behind walls at the rear. In this view rows of terraced houses look out on to a grassed patch with mature trees perhaps intended to emulate a village green. It does not look unpleasant on a sunny morning but experience with Radburn estates in general suggests that the confusing layout with myriad cut throughs and paths (and parking areas hidden from view) is unpopular and encourages crime. St Ann's was comprehensively redeveloped in the 1970s after the previous housing stock of poor quality 19th century terraced houses - specifically built for the working poor - was demolished.

Restored in the 1980s this is a Grade II listed row built in the 1860s in the pleasingly plain style of the mid century - see http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-458530-1-to-20-robin-hood-terrace-#.VZWfDSiwHZY .

A view of the tall brightly painted houses on Promenade (not The Promenade) as seen from the Robin Hood Street end of the path. The Victoria Park boundary fence can be seen on the left-hand side.

Built c 1860 this row was part of the Borough's initial expansion beyond its mediaeval core after the Enclosure Act of 1845. For the listing see http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-458900-1-to-30-the-promenade-#.VZWdNCiwHZY .

A handsome terrace overlooking Victoria Park, photographed against the light on an August morning.