For a Limited Period Only - Free Electronic Copy of Issue 17 of Lenton Times
Latest Website Updates - 12th May 2024
Charlton Street - New Section,
Clifton Boulevard - Derby Road Underpass 1982,
Cottesmore Boys School - New 1959 Photographs,
Holy Trinity Church - Choir Members - 2 Photographs,
Leen Gate - Tanners Yard - New 1959 Photograph,
Manfull Street - New 1950s Photograph & Other Photographs Revamped,
University Boulevard and the Tram - New Section added
Recent Updates
Dunkirk Fire Station - New Section,
Gregory Street - Additional Photographs,
Highfields Park - Additional Photographs of The Park at Work,
Nazareth House - Two New 1960 Photographs
Spree Postcard Updates
Bestwood - 3 New Images,
City Centre - High Pavement & St Mary's Church - New Section with 5 New Images,
City Centre - Victoria Station - New Image
Lenton Times Issue 47 - Available Now
Featuring
Charles Morton: Professional Evangelist - The Father I Never Knew: The Last Chapter - The Lenton Church Athletic Football Team - Who Were Our 1897 Champions? - Our Sponsor's Story - Derrick Boddy: My Uncle & A Fearless Mountaineer - The Story of University Boulevard - Society Snips
Gallery Addition - Dunkirk Fire Station
One of the latest additions to the Lenton Gallery focuses on Dunkirk Fire Station. Lenton's fire station had previously been based on Triumph Road but a new station on Abbey Road was opened in 1960 which was known as Dunkirk Fire Station. Our new section contains a number of early photographs of the fire station plus a photographic tour of the fire station both inside and out undertaken in 2005. In 2009 the new Highfields Fire Station on Hassocks Lane, Beeston was opened which meant that both Dunkirk and Beeston Fires Stations were now surplus to requirements. We conclude with a few shots of the Dunkirk Fire Station boarded up and ready for demoltion plus a couple of shots of the site after demolition has taken place.
Click here to view the page
Lenton Local History Society. January to June 2024 Programme is now available
New Electronic Copies of Back Issues of Lenton Times
In recent years we have been busy creating electronic versions of some of the earlier editions of Lenton Times. A small number of coloured illustrations have been included where appropriate. The magazines are in PDF format and viewable on PC's, laptops or mobile devices.
New electronic copies of Lenton Times now available:- Issue 9, Issue 10, Issue 11, Issue 12, Issue 13, Issue 14, Issue 15, Issue 16, Issue 17, Issue 18, Issue 19, Issue 20, Issue 21 and Issue 22.
Also, click here for the Back Copies Index
J. Spree - Nottingham Postcard Publisher
John Henry Spree (1869-1932), one-time Lenton resident, was a prolific publisher of picture postcards using his own photographs, not only of Nottingham and the county but also of villages in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire.
Our website currently contains postcards of Nottingham: Basford, City Centre, Clifton Grove, Lenton, Sherwood, University/Highfields Park, Victoria Embankment/Trent Bridge, Wollaton, Wollaton Park and Estate. Nottinghamshire: Arnold and Daybrook, Aslockton, Blidworth, Car Colston, Carlton, Cropwell Bishop &, Cropwell Butler, East Bridgford, Elton, Gedling, Gonalston, Hickling, Sibthorpe, Teversal, Trowell, Whatton, Willoughby on the Wolds. Derbyshire: Chee Tor, Marpool, Somercotes. Leicestershire: Long Clawson, Old Dalby: Saxelby. Lincolnshire: Anderby Creek, Huttoft, Mumby, Sutton on Sea, Woolsthorpe.
Click here for our postcard index
Electronic Copies of Lenton Times - 2024 Subscription
Subscribe for the two issues of Lenton Times to be published in 2024 - due out June 2024 & December 2024 and get a free electronic copy of your choice from Issue 9 to Issue 47 for just £4.
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Lenton Gallery
Shows photographs of the Lenton, Dunkirk & Wollaton areas Past and Present
The Lenton Listener
Selected articles from the magazine produced for Lenton Community Association between 1979 and 1988
Lenton Times Back Copies
We have revamped all the pages relating to Lenton Times backcopies. There is now one index which will link you to a separate page for each issue.
Issues No.1 - 8 have now sold out. So we are providing access on the website to all the articles that were included in these particular issues.
Special Offer now available
Nottingham at War: 1914-1919 & Lenton: A Suburb's Sacrifice
In the 1990s the Society established a project to learn more about the Lenton men and women who died as a result of the First World War.
It has now culminated in a new publication entitled Nottingham at War: 1914-1919 & Lenton: A Suburb's Sacrifice, published by Lenton Times in association with Leen Editions.
Special Offer for 2022
A review of
The History of the Parish and Priory of Lenton
by John Thomas Godfrey - 1884
The book was reviewed in the Nottingham Daily Express and published over four issues during December 1884 to January 1885
To read the review click here
Lenton Local History Society
General information about the Society, current programme of events and contact details
Research at the National Archives, Kew
Professional help offered for those wishing to access material from the National Archives