Lenton Times

The Magazine of Lenton Local History Society

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.

Canvassing People's Views of Lenton

My name is Cindy Carmelia. I'm currently an MA-Urban design student and currently doing a dissertation research which looks at Lenton in Nottingham.

I have visited the area several times in the course of doing my research and am now very interested to get the community's perspective about the identity and character of Lenton these days.

I currently live in Birmingham but am really interested in getting to learn about people's views of Lenton - especially the people who care about Lenton or those who have previously lived in Lenton.

So anyone who thinks they might be able to help with my research is asked to get in touch with me at c1ndy02@yahoo.com

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

Calling all former pupils of the Lenton Church School

The Guru Teg Bahadur Sikh Temple, housed in the former Lenton Church School on Church Street, is looking for help to trace any former students of the school or any members of church groups who may have any memories of the building prior to its conversion to a Sikh Temple in 1977.

 As part of the redevelopment of the building, we are anxious to preserve the heritage of the site and hope to have an exhibition area where the history of the building and the people who have occupied it over the years can be displayed. We would therefore be very keen to talk to anyone who can help us gather this information.  Please contact us either by e-mail at thetemplecentre@yahoo.co.uk or call our Project Officer Jeannie Clough on 07989 512 679.
Posted 01/04/2007

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.