Title

Last Saturday market, Market Square, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 17th November 1928. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Last Saturday market, Market Square, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 17th November 1928. The idea of a new complex to replace the Exchange which stood on the eastern side of the Market Square was approved by the Council on 1st. December 1924 and the contract was let in May 1925. The building that replaced the Exchange was the Council House, pictured here under construction. Designed by Thomas Cecil Howitt in Neo-Baroque style, it was the largest stone building which had been built in Britain since the First World War. On its completion, it was opened by the Prince of Wales, later Duke of Windsor, on 22nd May 1929. This view shows the last Saturday market (east aspect) from Beast Market Hill.
Nottingham City Council collections

Date

2009

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Nottingham City Council

Reference

HRM19D66_030

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,1Mb (1,7Mb) / 16,0in x 12,2in / 4796 x 3650 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior building buildings England people square architecture country market trade scaffold scaffolding British English nottinghamshire market square market stall location century Britain outside twenties B&W MONOCHROME under construction metaphor portico Architectural Feature Nottingham black & white black and white B W 1920s 20th century TGN Council house photograph Unknown NEMPR Picture the Past photograph