This page is provided for anyone mounting forthcoming events or launching general appeals relating to the Lenton area
BEST FOOT FORWARD
A partnership of local organisations and individuals who aim to promote walking for health and enjoyment
A programme of Guided Health Walks in Nottingham – All the Year Round
A number of short walks in the Nottingham City area. The walks offer you the opportunity to improve your health, make new friends, have fun and get to know your local environment.
They include
Every Tuesday
Lenton & Canal Walk
A lovely circular walk that takes in the Nottingham canal (with one short steep incline)
Grade: Easy to Moderate
Walk Length: 1- 3 miles (approx.)
Duration: 60 minutes (approx. – can be extended)
Meeting Place: Pavilion at Lenton Recreation ground at 2 p.m.
Walk Leaders: David, Colin & Sue.
Every Friday
Wollaton Park Walk
A number of pleasant walking routes in Wollaton Park, with its 16th Century Hall, lake and deer herd
Grade: Easy to Moderate
Walk Length: 1.5 – 3 miles
Duration: 60 minutes (approx.)
Meeting Place: Meet at Wollaton Park, 1st car park, Wollaton Road entrance at 10.00 a.m.
Walk Leaders: Judy & Sue
In severe weather conditions please contact 0115 919 4877 to check the walk is on.
Two leaders will be present during the walks. One will lead the walk, the other will follow at the rear of the group.
All walks are free but you will need to complete brief health and registration forms before your first walk. On subsequent walks you will need to sign the register. To allow time for this you should arrive a few minutes before the start of the walk.
For more information about other local walks contact www.whi.org.uk
Seeking former Raleigh Workers
Steven Crewe is currently working on a doctoral thesis entitled ‘Aspects of Sport and Social Provision in the Workplace -1918 - 1970’ at De Montfort University, Leicester. One of his case studies will involve looking at the social provisions organised by Raleigh Industries, once to be found based here in Lenton.
He would like to get in touch with any former Raleigh employees (or their children) who worked for the company before 1970 to talk to them about this particular topic.
Contact Details: Steven Crewe email elain233@btinternet.com or telephone: 0116 2351104
Local Publication
David Thompson spent the last eighteen years of his thirty one years service with Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Fire Service in charge of Green Watch at Dunkirk Fire station eventually retiring in 1997.
In 2007 David published a book about his working career initially as a railway fireman and latterly as a fireman in Nottingham.
Click here if you would like to learn more about this book.
Viyella House Magazine
I would like to obtain a copy of a Viyella House Magazine. This was, I think, a quarterly issued, in-house publication produced during the 1950s.
I know there were many Lenton residents employed at the Castle Boulevard premises and my hope is that someone out there might just have one to spare. I am resident in New York, USA but in the first instance please contact me by email. Bill Pugsley
Professional Family History and Military Research
Ann Swabey has her own links with Lenton although she now lives in south east England. She has been very helpful with our project to research the names on the Lenton War Memorial and has been able to look up the records of particular servicemen for us at the National Archives in Kew. By way of thanks we proffer her services to the world wide web.
For professional family history and military research, contact: Mrs Ann Swabey, 14 Cambridge Road Ashford Middlesex TW15 1UF or telephone 01784 256703 or by email ann@swabeyinteriors.co.uk.