Still a proud feature of Nottingham’s skyline, there was a time back in the 80s when the landmark former Lamberts textile factory was almost reduced to rubble.
The Talbot Street building Stanley House, now home to student flats, had already survived a previous brush with demolition before a serious threat in 1986 spurred the Nottingham Civic Society and Victorian Society to join forces in a bid to save it.
Built more than 150 years ago as a lace dressing factory by leading Nottingham benefactors John and William Lambert, the structure’s spectacular viewing tower was said to have been built to rival that of St Mary's church, visible across the city in the Lace Market.
