Description: This view is from the Milton Street access. Later it became House of Fraser and Tesco stores. Showing the Victoria centre flats and shopping centre during construction. The centre and flats were built at the start of the 1970's over the cutting of the old Victoria Railway Station. All that remained of the station was the clock tower on Milton Street. The Centre was to contain: high-rise flats, a multi-storey car-park, an indoor market (which transferred from the old Central Market opposite The Palais de Danse), a bus station (which had previously been site on Huntingdon Street), Jessops-John Lewis Partnership department store (which had relocated from its original King Street site), and Nottingham's flagship branch of Boots the Chemists, as well as many high street and franchise shops. It was all enhanced by the whimsical musical clock-fountain by Roland Emett situated just inside the main entrance off Lower Parliament Street. The Centre was officially opened 16 March 1973 by Geoffrey Rippon QC MP Secretary of State for the Environment.