Lenton Times

The Magazine of Lenton Local History Society

The view looking back along Leen Gate towards Gregory Street with part of The White Hart pub evident in the background.  The foreground is part of the car park for the Monty Hind Club and in the middle distance Leen Gate 'Newsmarket' shop.  Photograph taken July 2001.

Looking up Leen Gate towards the Queens Medical Centre.  On the right is the Monty Hind Club which moved from Willoughby St. to these purpose-built premises in the 1960s. Beyond it is the old tannery building which is now converted into housing.  Photograph taken July 2001.

Runners taking part in the 1988 Robin Hood Marathon making their way along Leen Gate.  Photograph used in Lenton Times No.1 to accompany an article on the Lenton Foot Steeplechase.

Part of the old tannery complex in the early 1980s when it was occupied by Bell Fruit Co.  The company later confined their operations to premises on the other side of the road and the property was sold off and later converted by Zodeco into apartments.

A view of the old tannery building fronting on to Leen Gate in 1989 after it had undergone conversion into apartments.  Leengate News can be seen in the far distance.

This portion of the old tannery complex was demolished soon after the photograph was taken to make way for the car park jointly used by Bell Fruit employees and the occupants of the housing complex.

The property in the previous photograph has come down although the exterior wall was partially retained to form the boundary wall of the car park.  Beyond it the demolition men have now moved on to the building in the centre in the photograph.

Exterior view of part of the premises currently occupied by Bell Fruit.  View looking down Leen Gate in the direction of Gregory Street.  Photograph taken February 1987.

T Bayley & Co Ltd
 

Probably taken in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century a group of leatherworkers employed by T. Bayley & Co Ltd pose for their photograph.  The only person so far identified is Harry Berry standing on the extreme left of the shot.

Inside Bell Fruit Factory 1987
 

Issue 44 of The Lenton Listener was sponsored by Bell Fruit Games Ltd.  While preparing the profile on the company this series of photographs was taken, although only one of them actually appeared alongside the article.  If any past or present employees of the company would like to provide a commentary identifying people or describing what is going on in each of the photographs we should be happy to add it to this section.