The Meadows area of Nottingham suffered serious flooding during the winter of 1947. Taken during this period of flooding our photograph shows local youths making their way along the side of the river Trent with Clifton Colliery and Wilford Power Station both in evidence in the background.

Members of the Lambert family of Abbey Street, Lenton paddling in the river Trent in the early 1950s. In the distance on the other side of the river can be seen some of the houses that make up Wilford. On this side of the river would have been Wilford Power Station - visible in the previous photograph. Whether you are still in Lenton or have moved over the parish boundary into The Meadows is something of a moot point.

The photographer who took this shot in the 1930s was positioned on one of the boundary walls of Nottingham Castle. It shows the view looking westward and includes some of the properties in the Park. From our point of view in the background there is part of Lenton - for a close up of this section of the photograph access the large version included here.

This aerial photograph of The Park appeared in a 1953 edition of the Nottinghamshire Guardian. In the middle distance you can see Canning Circus and Derby Road and beyond it the grounds of the General Cemetery.

This undated picture postcard came from the late Reg Meakin's album. It was probably taken in the mid to late 1920s. On the back of the postcard Reg had written that the scene in question was the bridge over the Fairham Brook with the Round House in the background. This was situated near the entrance to Clifton Grove. The Round House had originally been a toll bar on the turnpike road out to Loughborough via Gotham. Reg recalled that in his childhood, about the time of the first world war, the building had been converted into a cafe selling refreshments to passersby. During this era the property came up for sale and Reg's grandmother actually considered buying it but never went ahead with the purchase.

This aerial photograph taken in 1934 features Russell Drive in the top left on its approach to the junction with Wollaton Road which runs across the middle of the photograph. The church and pub are on the right and part of Bramcote Lane is also visible. Coming off Bramcote Lane in the foreground are the newly built properties that make up May Avenue.

This photograph originally appeared in the Nottinghamshire Guardian dated 4th September 1948. It shows a stretch of Wollaton Road with Western Boulevard off to the right and the end of Middleton Boulevard just visible on the middle left. The photographer had gone to the top of Player's bonded warehouse in order to get this shot. He was commissioned to do so because it had just been announced that work would shortly commence on the construction of two road islands to ease the flow of traffic at this point. On the extreme left of the picture you can see the section of the Nottingham canal as it is made its way under the Wollaton Road and on past the properties that constituted Radford Woodhouse. In the early days of the canal, coal from a nearby colliery would be brought down to this point on the canal in order to be loaded on barges and transported by water to neighbouring towns.

This photograph was taken Chris Noble in the early 1980s. It shows the remains of one of the locks constructed for the Nottingham canal in the Wollaton area. The surrounding area now features a housing estate and the bed of the canal and the associated locks have been filled in. However, at least part of the line of canal can still be accessed, as it has retained as a public footpath running alongside the area of new houses.