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Cardiff Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 2FH

Small gothic-style church from 1867, it is now out of use and it looks as if interior demolition may already be under way.

Just after closure.

Nottingham had a very progressive approach to library provision with a number of quite substantial suburban locations at the end of the 19th century, many of which survive in use. In most cases the space is now used to provide ancillary book storage alongside the continuing lending facilities.

One of the series of suburban libraries built by Nottingham Corporation at the end of the 19th century.

The lower part of St Mathias’ Road (once known as Element Hill), with Carlton Road (the B686 road) in the distance. The former St Mathias' Anglican Church was closed in 2003 and the building eventually became the home of the Coptic Orthodox Church of St Mary & St George in March 2009. St. Matthias' Anglican Church was originally consecrated in 1867.

When it opened, around 1980, this Cooperative superstore was very much a flagship. However, the location was never really ideal, and it never seemed to be particularly busy, and it finally closed just a few weeks before this picture was taken.

Roundels on the white panels of the pillars have the monogram NCS, but even without them this frontage has all the hallmarks of having been a Co-op store. It ceased to be one when the superstore Image on the opposite side of the road was opened, and has since had a variety of occupants, that last one being a charity. It has been unoccupied for some months now and I feel it unlikely that either it or its successor will find new occupants.

A view of the former Lord Alcester pub near the top of St Mathias' Road as seen from Woodhouse Street. The metallic bow-edged building is part of an apartment complex called Albany House, that hosts a community cafe. The pub was built in the 1950s but was extended and converted into nine self-contained flats in 2012.

The former Lord Alcester pub, near the summit of St Mathias' Road, that was built in the 1950s and that has been converted into nine self-contained flats (2012). The premises, that are still called by their original name, have been extended on their Carlton Road side. The pub took its name from Admiral Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, the 1st Lord Alcester (1821-95), the British naval Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet between 1874-77 and of the Mediterranean Fleet between 1880-83.

A view from the Jersey Gardens side of the former Lord Alcester pub towards the summit of St Mathias' Road with Woodhouse Street opposite. The pub was built in the 1950s but following its closure due to the economic collapse of its business it was converted into nine self-contained flats in 2012. The pub took its name from Admiral Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, the 1st Lord Alcester (1821-95), the British naval Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet between 1874-77 and of the Mediterranean Fleet between 1880-83.