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According to its website, Castle Cavendish “aims to support the growth and development of the community and voluntary sector and make a real impact to the quality of life for local communities.” Castle Cavendish Works is “a managed office-space facility that provides serviced offices, along with conference, training and meeting space [and] a range of commercial office space”. The building dates from 1898. The view is from Hartley Road. In the background, on the other side of Norton Street, are some of the remains of the former Player's cigarette factory, destroyed by fire on 30 March 2015.

The former Player's No 1 Factory on Player Street was destroyed by fire on 30 March 2015. The adapted Victorian factory designed by R C Sutton (1881-2) was four storeys high and 387ft/119m by 38ft/12m. Until 1902 it was shared with lace manufacturers. After Player’s moved to a new factory it became Player’s Court, housing various businesses, before becoming student accommodation. Image] was taken from further down Norton Street shortly after the fire.

The block on the right, once part of John Player's No 1 Tobacco Factory, has reopened after much of the rest of the building was destroyed by fire in March 2015. For comparison, see Image], taken three weeks after the fire.

The former Player's No 1 Factory on Player Street, now part of The Student Lodge, was destroyed by fire on 30 March 2015. This is a view from Norton Street. The adapted Victorian factory designed by R C Sutton (1881-2) was four storeys high and 387ft/119m by 38ft/12m. Until 1902 it was shared with lace manufacturers. After Player’s moved to a new factory it became Player’s Court, housing various businesses, before becoming student accommodation.

The former Player's No 1 Factory on Player Street was destroyed by fire on 30 March 2015. The adapted Victorian factory designed by R C Sutton (1881-2) was four storeys high and 387ft/119m by 38ft/12m. Until 1902 it was shared with lace manufacturers. After Player’s moved to a new factory it became Player’s Court, housing various businesses, before becoming student accommodation. For comparison, see Image], taken soon after the fire.

The oldest part of the Players Castle Tobacco Factory has outlived its newer additions, the No.2 and 3 factories, demolished to make way for a retail park.

These flats and houses, seen from Norton Street, replaced Victorian terraces late in the twentieth century.

The bridge links the two part of the former Players offices; on the right is the former No.1 Factory dating from the 1880s.

A view up Player Street showing the remains of Player’s original factory, No 1, designed by R C Sutton (1881-2), which was four storeys high and 387ft/119m by 38ft/12m. Until 1902 it was shared with lace manufacturers. After Player’s moved to a new factory at Dunkirk it became Player’s Court, housing various businesses (see Alan Murray-Rust’s Image]). Latterly it was part of The Student Lodge until being destroyed by fire on 30 March 2015. Only a quarter of the building was occupied as conversion work was still going on. Alan Murray-Rust’s Image] and Image] give an idea of the building before the fire. For an idea of Player's in its heyday, see http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/nottingham1906/nottingham16.htm .

The former Player's No 1 Factory on Player Street, now part of The Student Lodge, was destroyed by fire on 30 March 2015. This is a view from Norton Street towards Radford Boulevard. The white building is the offices built for Player's in the late 1960s. “Radford House, Player’s former offices, by McMorran & Whitby (1965-7) is weatherboarded, with neo-colonial C18 sashes and columned entrance (condemned as 'superficial' by the City Architect David Jenkin)” (Elain Harwood in the Pevsner Architectural Guide to the city). To the right are the remains of the adapted Victorian factory designed by R C Sutton (1881-2), which was four storeys high and 387ft/119m by 38ft/12m. Until 1902 it was shared with lace manufacturers. After Player’s moved to a new factory it became Player’s Court, housing various businesses, before becoming student accommodation.