After the view from the Brightmore Drive blocks yesterday here's the view back from the Martin Street and Oxford Street side of The Ponderosa (The P).
This is taken from the one of the seven towers offset from the others that are on Martin Street, from the Oxford Street block named, er, Oxford. The top part of The Ponderosa (not a park but an Open Space, come on, get with it!) is just below, and the corner of the recreation ground can be seen to the bottom right. The Arts Tower looks back across and towers over the four blocks on Brightmore Drive. The Netherthorpe housing estate sits peacefully in the foreground. That steep slope leading upward from The P was the site of numerous tenement blocks, these were demolished sometime after the war. The path leading up to the right by the recreation ground was a road, there are still gateposts at the top. Barrage balloons were tethered to this site in an effort to force German bombers higher and make accurate bombing more difficult.
Visible between the Brightmore Drive blocks is the construction of The Bioincubator building. These pictures were taken on Christmas Day 2004 so there is no work going on, not legitimately at least.
A closer view of the construction work. Christmas decorations can be made out in the windows of the tower block, and if you study the image carefully there is a naked backside in one of the windows. The white colour on the buildings in the distance is snow. Snow on Christmas Day, a rarity.
Actually there is no naked backside to be seen, not that I'm aware of, and in that weather who could blame them.
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