This page is provided for anyone mounting forthcoming events or launching general appeals relating to the Lenton area
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.