The Boulevard Centre

The Boulevard Centre is a community centre that was originally built as the 'School for Fishermen' in 1914, designed by Joseph H. Hirst, the City Architect. The building is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof that is hidden behind a deep parapet. It is two storeys high with a brick plinth topped by ashlar coping. The design showcases Baroque Revival style, characterized by broadly spaced quoins, a first-floor band, and a deeply moulded stone eaves cornice.

The main facade has seven windows, with a central projecting section that contains three windows and a central door framed in ashlar with a bracketed hood. Above the door is a plaque inscribed "School For Fishermen." Flanking the door are shallow stone panels, and above is a large staircase window with glazing bars set in a plain ashlar surround. This window rises through the cornice, culminating in a segmental ashlar pediment featuring a central circular window with a carved surround. To the sides, there are single narrow windows in ashlar moulded surrounds on the left, with various blocked windows on the right, and a very tall window above.

On either side of the central section, there are two large windows with glazing bars in ashlar surrounds, each topped with an ashlar panel that links to smaller glazing bar windows above. The entire structure is capped with a deep brick parapet. The left return features four windows on each floor, all in simple ashlar surrounds with ashlar panels below. The right return and rear facade have similar windows but without ashlar surrounds.

This building is significant both architecturally and historically, as it aimed to provide education for boys involved in the fishing industry. On the flat roof behind the high parapet, pupils practiced signalling.