sps1955's photos with the keyword: 2012-12-10

The remaining fragment of Bridge Gate seen from the bridge over the ring road. On the left is the side elevation of St Helen's House in King Street, built 1766-7 for Alderman John Gisborne to the designs of Joseph Pickford [Maxwell Craven in Georgian Group Journal , XVII (2009), p.78; list description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1228285 ]. To the right, 11 Bridge Gate (occupied by St Mary's Convent since 1862) is partly C19 with a C18 re-fronting of earlier (perhaps late C16) buildings on the right: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1215807 .

From E (liturgical S). Roman Catholic parish church built at the expense of the earl of Shrewsbury and designed by A. W. Pugin, 1838. This is as good a photograph as I could manage of the nave and aisles, which are rather more austerely treated than the tower , which faced Bridge Gate. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1215808 .

1878. Built by Andrew Handyside and Co, Ironfounders of Derby, for the Great Northern Railway. The "buck in a park" is the emblem of the borough of Derby. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1216461 . The netting is apparently intended to prevent pieces of the ironwork falling into the street: www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/5178510034/in/set-7215... .

Former Midland Counties Railway workshop, seen from the steps of the station footbridge. 1839, with C19 and C20 alterations and additions. List description, list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1230740 , notes that this is "the earliest surviving railway works in the country".