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Edith Terrace, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 3BD

The view at the Radford Boulevard end of Hartley Road is dominated by the five storeys of the former Meridian knitwear factory, now student flats (see Image] and Image]).

The Colonel Burnaby public house is the only Victorian survivor on the south side of Hartley Road. Radford Boulevard and Boulevard Works are in the distance, before Hartley Road dips down past St Peter's Church into the Leen valley.

This view gives a good sense of the character of the Radford area of Nottingham: the main roads are heavily tree-lined, making for an attractive picture in high summer, and there are many substantial and interesting Victorian and Edwardian buildings, like the converted mill on the right of the photo. On the other hand, the Boulevard pub on the opposite corner of the crossroads is boarded up, as is the shop on the end of the terrace at the left of the photo by the traffic lights.

Near the corner of Radford Boulevard, opposite what in my childhood was the Windsor cinema. In the distance the tower of St Peter's Church shows above the roof of one of the retail units which occupy the site of one of Player's cigarette factories - once one of the area's main employers.

Big and vigorously Gothic pub by Herbert Walker, 1883. Since closed - currently a restaurant, Today Grill House. (It may already have closed when this photo was taken in 2015.)

The former Boulevard Hotel of 1883.

A ring road half encircling Nottingham was conceived in the 1870s, fifteen years before the advent of the motor car. The roads: Gregory, Radford, Lenton and Castle Boulevards were styled on the tree lined boulevards of Paris completed ten years earlier and led to the rapid development of the west of the city. The building on the far corner of this junction with Hartley Road is The Boulevard, formerly the Boulevard Hotel and dates from 1883. In spite of a facelift in 1988 the building now looks a little sad. On the right the wall and fencing are all that remains of the works of John Player, the cigarette manufacturer, a major employer in the area. The site is now occupied by a supermarket and retail units. The round faced building on the right beyond the junction is the Boulevard Works which is proposed for conversion into student accommodation.

Morning traffic starting to move after the lights changed.

A long zoom shot from the Woodyard Lane railway bridge, between Bilborough and Wollaton. The Woodland high-rise blocks off Hartley Road dominate the scene now as the demolished Players cigarette factory on Churchfield Lane once dominated the left-hand half of this frame. The spire of All Saints' Church, two miles or so away on Raleigh Street, is on the skyline in the centre. The red-brick Boulevard Works on Radford Boulevard shows in front of the high-rise blocks, and the large building in the left middle distance is Beechdale Baths.

Expansive Victorian public house on the corner of Radford Boulevard and Hartley Road.