Description: Showing the Westminster Buildings on the corner of Wollaton Street, the Hippodrome Music Hall (later the Gaumont Cinema) then Goldsmith Street. The tall chimneys behind the Hippodrome belong to Talbot Street Electricity Station. The Rufford Hotel in the centre of the photograph later became the Council Hotel The colonnade on the right of the photograph belongs to the Theatre Royal, built in 1865 by C J Phipps. In the centre of the square stands the statue of Samuel Morley, MP for Nottingham and Bristol, a campaigner for Nonconformist emancipation and the principal benefactor of Morley College for adult education. He died in 1886.