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Friar Court, Friar Street, WORCESTER, WR1 2NN

On the Western side of City Walls Road on the perimeter wall that sits on the ancient city walls. At the back of the cinema. It depicts the locations of medieval gates to the walled city. For a list of plaques - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/medeival-town-gates-of-Worcester.

The Fownes Hotel is situated on the side of City Walls Road. Work on building the factory began in 1884 and took three years to complete. The company which was started by John Fownes in the early eighteenth century moved from London to Worcester at the time of the building's completion. At the time the company employed around 1000 people. In 1974, with the decline in demand for gloves the factory closed with the company moving its business and manufacture to Warminster in Wiltshire. In the mid 1980s the building was converted into a hotel. The building used to house the Fownes Glove Factory.

This was the former Fownes glove factory but has been a hotel for two decades or more. Worcester was a centre of the gloving industry and there is still one small factory at work (2013) on a more domestic scale.

One of the city's major industrial relics, the former Fownes Glove Factory, built from 1882-84 by Yeates & Jones in red and blue brick. Now Fownes Hotel. More info Image

This is now the Fownes Hotel. Seen on the occasion of the Geograph meet to celebrate Geograph's 11th birthday.

The Fownes Hotel viewed from the top of the cathedral tower, until its conversion into a hotel, formerly this was a glove factory.

Seen from the top of a multistorey car park. There are good sightlines and no obstructing barriers up here. The pedimented building in the left background is a former glove factory and now the Fownes Hotel.

Late Georgian brick. Unlike much else in the street, these do not appear to be remodellings of timber-framed houses. Grade II listed.