The Cornmarket still contains much fine Victorian architecture. Along these streets you will find well known High Street stores, some housed in Victorian buildings built as a huge department stores where the staff slept over the shops. The Cornmarket is also home to grand old bank and building society buildings and reminders of the clockmakers, which have all played there part in the areas history,  it still contains various banking institutions to this very day and there are even clocks displayed above some of the shop fronts

HL Brown & Sons above left the renowned jewellers stands prominently on the corner of the Cornmarket and Victoria Street, built in 1839 originally as the Royal Hotel, being designed by Robert Wallace, who incidentally won an architectural competition to design this group of buildings, which originally included the post office and Athanaeum Club, next door. The building is finished partly in stone, partly in white painted stucco. The canopy was added in the 1920's when the building operated as the Royal Hotel. The Hotel closed in 1950 and for a short while the DHSS took it over, part of it is now converted back to a banqueting suite. Next to this on the right is the Derby and Derbyshire Banking company Ltd, again designed by Robert Wallace of London, shown above right.

Robert and Alice Liversage lived on the corner of the Corn Market and Albert Street on the site where the Samuels shop now stands. Robert was a highly skilled and respected dyer of wool and a very clever business man. We are told that his life was an example of faith, hope and charity.

Robert Liversage donated much of the money needed to build the cathedral tower. But Liversage made out a will which would benefit his own church, St. Peter's, where he worshipped regularly.

On the right above and below we are looking down Albert Street,  Nothing too much has changed in these two pictures, the top one being taken in 2005 with the bottom being taken in 1990

The former Corn Exchange building was built in 1862, and later in 1897 became the Palace Theatre of Varieties. The dance hall was closed in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War. After the end of the war it re-opened as the Palais de Danse.

In 1929 the Derby Evening Telegraph took over the building to use as offices and renamed it Northcliffe House.

1991

before the area was pedestrianised

These four pictures show the changes that have occurred the area was pedestrianised, the pictures on the left are looking down from the Market Place and the pictures on the right are looking up from Victoria Street

2005

after the area was pedestrianised

This is the entrance to the fish market, and Victorian Market Hall beyond. this impressive archway sits between numbers 37 & 38 and is a grade II listed building, it is described in the details of the listing as ‘a rusticated stone coach arch’

Above the Craft Shop on the corner of St James Street, we have this fabulous stonework around the windows, this building has recently been given a face lift through the Derby Townscape Heritage Initiative, this included a new shop front, various joinery and some stone replacement.