Looking Back: Building Bayard Place in the early 90s
I photographed the construction of the Bayard Place council offices (around 1992) from the top floor of St Mary’s flats, writes street photographer Chris Porsz.
In 2019 the council moved to Sand Martin House at Fletton Quays and the offices were converted into flats – the building is now called Bayard Plaza.
Behind the advertising hoardings were the English Nature offices in Northminister Road, now home to a number of companies.
Look closely and you can see the reflections of the market multi-storey car park, which was demolished in 2019 and replaced with the recently completed apartment block.
The blue building on Broadway, leading to Stanley park, was Shaw Insurance.
You can buy Chris’s Reunion books from www.chrisporsz.com and help his breast cancer research fundraising.