Lenton Times

The Magazine of Lenton Local History Society

Looking towards The Boat Inn from the corner of Priory Street and Abbey Street in August 2001
See also Abbey Street Gallery  

An undated photograph of the Boat Inn - probably taken in the 1960s.  The frontage still looks much the same today although now there are hanging baskets on display and the Home Brewery sign has gone for ever.
A brief history of the pub was included in Issue No.6

Looking towards Abbey Street in 2005.  After the set of properties adjoining the Boat Inn were demolished an archaeological investigation was carried out here to determine what remained of Lenton Priory's foundations.  Once the excavations had been completed they were covered with soil again and the area landscaped.  The pub now uses the space as an extension to its facilities in the summer time.

This 1945 photograph was taken in the upstairs room at the Boat Inn on Priory Street.  It shows some of the children who lived in nearby houses attending a victory party after the end of the War in Europe.  

The massed ranks of those who attended the victory party in The Boat Inn now all grouped together for their photograph.   Given the way everyone is grouped it looks as if we are in the skilled hands of a professional photographer.

The premises shown in this 2004 photograph formed part of Nazareth House, an old people's home run by an order of nuns.  Its Lenton establishment was started in the mid/late 1800s and housed both old people and young orphans.  At the beginning of this present decade the home was closed down and the property placed on the market.  

This 2004 shot taken from the Priory Street entrance shows the Nazareth House chapel.  The likely scenario is that only the original house built by William Stretton in the early 1800s will be retained.  This chapel and all the other buildings are earmarked for demolition and the rest of the site given over to a housing development.