Millets windows (Morledge side) - a photo on Flickriver

            When this site was purchased by a Park Lane, London development firm, the Hammerson Group of Companies, the price of £71,500 was equal to £125 per square yard, which, back in March 1961, was a record in Derby for a site of its kind. It is entirely appropriate that one of the building's initial tenants was a Wimpy Bar, given the "Coffee Bar Modernist" style of the building. Wakefields Army Stores were the initial occupants of the main part of the block, the subsidiary occupants being Pounders shoe shop, Turners bakery and (as mentioned above) a Wimpy Bar, as reported in the Derby Evening Telegraph of 21.11.1962.
Hammerson later went on to develop that superlative architectural landmark, the Brent Cross Shopping Centre and this development was relatively early on in their history. As such the Morledge/East Street development is of unquestionable historic importance. Furthermore, although the contractors were Gleesons of London, assurances were given that as much local labour as possible would be used during its construction. This means that it is a local landmark at least partially "Made In (And By) Derby".
In late 1960 previous plans to redevelop the site (previously a fair ground) as a Post Office had been abandoned. Since this would have been some months before Hammerson's purchase of the site it is quite possible that this building would not have existed in the first instance.
More lately Hammerson have developed the High Cross Shopping Centre in Leicester.
   

Taken on: March 31, 2009

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Sets appears in: • Christopher Bentley's Streamline Moderne/Coffee Bar Modernist Walk (Southern side of Derby City Centre) • Coffee Bar Modernist Architecture in Derby

Camera: Concord Camera GmbH JDC 3.0S, f/3.0, 1/252 sec, 8.3mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Concord Camera GmbH JDC 3.0S
Aperture:	f/3.0
Exposure Time:	0.004 sec (1/252)
Focal Length:	8.3mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	+11.9 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
Color Space:	sRGB
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