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Player Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 5PP

Looking across Alfreton Road and down Thurman Street towards Hyson Green. The area is a mixture of late Victorian terraces and more recent housing.

I believe the derelict end-of-terrace shop on the corner of Alfreton Road and Collison Street was, in my post-war childhood in these parts, a dry cleaner’s owned by Nottingham Panthers’ Canadian ice hockey star Chick Zamick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_Zamick ).

Much of The Student Lodge, the former Player's No 1 Tobacco Factory, was destroyed by fire in March 2015. This eastern section has been saved and has reopened. The grey-surrounded windows to the right of the doorway were once a cart and lorry entrance, and the preserved notice to the right of it recalls those times. It reads Danger Low headroom Height 11'0"

The building on the right was originally one of the more recent of the Player's tobacco factories in Radford (and after demolition and more recent fire destruction the last remaining). It is now an office block known as New Brook House.

Part of the rapid extension of the city to the west in the last decades of the 19th century. The newer houses replace terraces cleared in the 1970s.

Typical low-cost 3-storey terracing in Radford.

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 .

Houses, shops and an hotel built as Nottingham mushroomed in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. For another view of this corner, see Alan Murray-Rust's Image] (2008).

For a comparable earlier view, with links to other images, see Image

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.