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Frederick Street
Frederick Street used to be one of the main thoroughfares of the town but was pedestrianised a few years ago. For quite a while after drivers trying to get through the centre of town and finding that they could no longer do so took a left and drove through the bus station. Some still do.
Water Street is a lane that runs past one of the loading yards around the back of the bus station and it merits no more mention than that.
This is Rotherham Bus Station and multi-storey car park. Not a pretty sight. It replaces an earlier monstrosity. It takes up virtually all one side of Frederick Street but there area few shops lining the bus station entrance, built when the bus station was re-developed, and a few other shops in wholly unremarkable buildings.
The other side of Frederick Street is split into two distinct parts. The old bit which consists of the triangle of Victorian buildings that include Howard Street and Effingham Street. The Borough Court House and police headquarters (1897 - 1972) were right here in the centre of town. The buildings are still there but are inhabited by a Burger King or not inhabited at all.
Passing the bottom of Howard Street there a row of unremarkable, modern buildings which were erected as part of a development called the Cascades Centre which filled three sides of a square, continuing along Howard Street and Bridgegate.