Lenton Times

The Magazine of Lenton Local History Society

This shot taken in May 2004 shows the Castle Boulevard end of Sherwin Road.  In the middle distance is Fifth Avenue International - leather & designer wear retailers and on its right the Dog and Topper pub.

The viewpoint of this 2007 photograph, taken by Ray Teece, is much the same as the previous photograph.  However Fifth Avenue International have gone to make way for the Cotswold Outdoor store while The Dog and Topper has now closed down.  At the time of writing (September 2007) the site had been sold but the new 'occupants' have yet to make an apppearance.  For other photographs by Ray Teece see his City of Nottingham website.

This next photograph was taken in November 1977.  At this time the Cotswold Outdoor store then housed Castellini Dental Equipment's showroom.  The pub bears its original name of the 17th/21st Lancers.

In the late 1990s the Lancers underwent extensive reconstruction and then reopened as The Dog and Topper.  Photograph taken in 1999.

The Albion Tavern stood on Sherwin Road until the late 1960s.  The 17th/21st Lancers was built alongside it, the licence transferred and then the old pub was demolished.  The building which replaced it is currently occupied by Fifth Avenue International.

This was found in a batch of old photographs.  It shows members of a local organisation, a lodge of some sort, posing for their photograph on the portion of open space once to be found lying between Castle Boulevard and Sherwin Road.  The Albion Tavern is visible at the rear on the left.  We have no date for the photograph but it is likely to be early twentieth century.

This shot was probably taken about 1955 and shows the end of Sherwin Road at its junction with Willoughby Street and Park Road.  These road works were being undertaken when the Abbey Bridge roundabout was under construction.  The building to the right of the Albion Tavern (in the previous photograph) is the one shown on the left of this photograph.

 This 1978 shot taken by Peter Holland shows the junction of Sherwin Road and Harley Street.  In most respects a present-day view would look much the same although now we have a cycle track running in front of the Sherwin Road properties.

 Originally this served as the gatehouse to a property known as Flora Cottage.  The latter was a substantial property which was pulled down in the 1890s to be replaced by all the houses that make up Sherwin Grove.  The gatehouse is now called Fothergill Cottage.  Photograph taken in 1991

The building at the rear of the photograph is part of Sherwin Grove.  The strange structure in the foreground is the remains of a glasshouse rockery constructed by the owner of Flora Cottage, the property pulled down in the 1890s to make way for the construction of Sherwin Grove.  The rockery is still there although the glasshouse itself has long since disappeared.

Serendipity Cottage in 1991.  On the 1881 O.S. map it was called Sycamore Cottage.

Birch House in the late 1930s.  Later it became the base for Mitson's chocolate business.  The site is now occupied by the Mirberry Mews properties   The full story of Birch House and its various occupants can be found in Lenton Times No.6.

This is one of the outhouses in the grounds of Birch House.  Although the main property was demolished this building was retained and converted into a residential property within the Mirberry Mews development.

The junction of Church Street and Sherwin Road with an old farm building along side the road.  This and the more recent building behind it have both come down to make way for the new Ear Foundation property.

This is a 2005 shot of the building erected by the Ear Foundation alongside their existing premises housed in Trafalgar House.