Description: Note the visible tram lines in King Street and Queen Street in the centre of the picture - the first trams were introduced in Nottingham in 1901. The red granite obelisk, situated at the junction of King Street and Queen Street, was given to the City by Sir Thomas Birkin as a memorial of the Nottingham men who fell in the Boer War of 1899-1902. Following extract from www.nottshistory.org.uk: King Street and Queen Street represent that curious V-shaped slice of slum property which was called the 'Condemned Area' and which was all swept away about the year 1888. It was a most unhygienic and immoral neighbourhood and nothing good could be said for it. It took about three years to clear and King Street was formed upon it and opened on June 22nd, 1892.