sps1955's photos with the keyword: Francis Thompson (1808-1895)

Midland Railway workers' housing of 1842, designed by Francis Thompson and restored by the Derbyshire Historical Buildings Trust in 1979 (list description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1244666 ), with, on the left, the former Railway Institute of 1893 or 1894 (designed by Charles Trubshaw, according to Marcus Binney in Country Life , 8 Sept. 1983, p.631).

Midland Railway workers' housing off Railway Terrace, designed by Francis Thompson, 1842. The street behind runs at an angle so that, apparently, there is room only for a lobby behind the front door of the house that closes the cul de sac, but the bay window enables a reasonably sized room to be fitted in to the left. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1272253 .

Designed by Francis Thompson and "the earliest surviving railway hotel built [in conjunction] with a station" according to The buildings of England: Derbyshire (2nd edn., corrected reprint, 1979), p.176, which dates the building to 1840, although the list description says 1842. The modern portico replaces a somewhat art deco entrance, shown in a photograph in Country Life , 8 Sept. 1983, p.630; an 1843 depiction of the station and hotel accompanying the same article suggests that there was originally no entrance on this side (which faces the station), accounting for the absence of any other central emphasis; it appears that the original entrance to the hotel was round the corner in Midland Road, between the two wings of the building.