Long Row, Nottingham
The street coming into this old postcard view to the left of the tram is King Street. (King and Queen Streets were built from c.1881 onwards.) The large building marked with the note box was the Black Boy Hotel. It was designed by the Nottingham based architect Fothergill Watson. (I get mixed up by his name as he changed his name by swapping his Christian and Surnames around part way though his career to Watson Fothergill (or was it the other way around?).)
The Black Boy Hotel was built in the 1870's or 1880's. The Corporation of Nottingham in its wisdom permitted Littlewoods to demolish it in 1969 so that a rather plain and uninteresting shop could be built in its place. The Littlewoods store is now a Primark.
On the right of the picture can be seen the Exchange Buildings. Behind the Exchange Buildings was an area known as 'The Shambles' this was a series of Butchers' Stalls (I think there were around 45 at least of them.) By the 1920's these were considered unsanitary.
The Corporation of Nottingham started using the Exchange Buildings (which had been built in the eighteenth century) from around 1877. Prior to that time they transacted their business at the old Town Hall at Weekday Cross (demolished in the 1890's to make way for the railway viaduct to the now closed Victoria Railway Station.
In 1897 Nottingham achieved City status. By the 1920's it was felt that Nottingham had a rather 'town like' municipal building so the present Council House was built. The Exchange was demolished in autumn 1926 - with the Council House being opened in 1929.
Long Row, Nottingham
The street coming into this old postcard view to the left of the tram is King Street. (King and Queen Streets were built from c.1881 onwards.) The large building marked with the note box was the Black Boy Hotel. It was designed by the Nottingham based architect Fothergill Watson. (I get mixed up by his name as he changed his name by swapping his Christian and Surnames around part way though his career to Watson Fothergill (or was it the other way around?).)
The Black Boy Hotel was built in the 1870's or 1880's. The Corporation of Nottingham in its wisdom permitted Littlewoods to demolish it in 1969 so that a rather plain and uninteresting shop could be built in its place. The Littlewoods store is now a Primark.
On the right of the picture can be seen the Exchange Buildings. Behind the Exchange Buildings was an area known as 'The Shambles' this was a series of Butchers' Stalls (I think there were around 45 at least of them.) By the 1920's these were considered unsanitary.
The Corporation of Nottingham started using the Exchange Buildings (which had been built in the eighteenth century) from around 1877. Prior to that time they transacted their business at the old Town Hall at Weekday Cross (demolished in the 1890's to make way for the railway viaduct to the now closed Victoria Railway Station.
In 1897 Nottingham achieved City status. By the 1920's it was felt that Nottingham had a rather 'town like' municipal building so the present Council House was built. The Exchange was demolished in autumn 1926 - with the Council House being opened in 1929.