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.

On the right we are looking down Albert Street in 1990,  Nothing too much has changed in these two pictures, the one on the right taken in 2005

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