sps1955's photos with the keyword: Friar Gate

Possibly designed by Joseph Pickford, according to The buildings of England: Derbyshire (rev. edn., corrected reprint, 1979), p.181. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1216527 .

Late C18. List description (as 66 and 66A): list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1287557 . I at first thought that this might have been conceived as a pair of houses, but the listing (which dates from 1952) does not mention the right-hand door (above the bonnet of the parked car) - indeed, it doesn't quite match the one on the left; this could be because the door and fanlight have been replaced, but the arch looks slightly different too. There is a further door in the section on the far right; perhaps this was originally the main door to a single house, although the upper floor of this section looks like a later extension, since the brickwork does not match the main structure.

Late C18. List description (as 66 and 66A): list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1287557 . For further comment, see www.flickr.com/photos/40878011@N07/8261728263/ . In the foreground is the "Headless Cross", according to this page "also known as the Plague Stone or Vinegar Stone, because money was deposited in a trough of vinegar in the top of the stone in the belief that the vinegar would disinfect the coins and prevent the spread of the plague, this stone originally formed part of a medieval cross which stood at the upper end of Friargate. It was removed from the Arboretum park and replaced here near its original site in June 1979." List description (while still in the arboretum): list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1288049 .

View from W. looking towards the former Great Northern Railway bridge. When built in the C18, these houses constituted "ribbon development" along the road to Ashbourne.

Cast iron structure in Friar Gate, apparently a transformer box dating from 1893 ( www.derby.gov.uk/media/derbycitycouncil/contentassets/doc... ). According to this page it was for the electric tram service, but www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1705872 says it was for an electric lighting scheme, and this seems more likely to be correct if the dates given by www.oldderbyphotos.co.uk/derby-days-gone-by are to be trusted - this page says that Derby got its first electric street lights in 1894 but did not get its first electric tram until 1904.

For 43-44 Friar Gate, the nearest house, see also www.flickr.com/photos/40878011@N07/8275711702/in/set-7215... . The house with the "To let" board is 42, mid C18; list description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1216463 . The rightmost red-brick house is Pickford House, 41; see also www.flickr.com/photos/40878011@N07/8261629423/in/set-7215... . In the left foreground is a cast iron transformer box: www.flickr.com/photos/40878011@N07/8263855995/in/set-7215... . 41 is Grade I listed; 42-4 are Grade II* listed.

The substructure and parapet of Derby Friargate station, on the Great Northern Railway's line from Nottingham, opened in 1878 and closed to passengers in 1964. The platform-level buildings have been demolished. The line crossed Friar Gate by a bridge on the right. From NE.

Built shortly after 1768 for Joseph Pickford, a leading architect in later C18 Derbyshire, to his own designs. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1287620 .

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... .

C17, with later sash windows, and some more modern replacements, and modern shop front. The town house of the Gells of Hopton Hall until c.1852, and probably built for Major Thomas Gell (1594-1657) [Maxwell Craven in Country Life (May 14, 1987), p.202]. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1216383 .