Lenton Times

The Magazine of Lenton Local History Society

 

Warwick Street - Lenton



 Photographs | Family Memories | Street Map



Photographs
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Photograph by Paul Bexon - 2005

 

Photograph by Paul Bexon - 2005

 

Photograph by Paul Bexon - 2005

 

 

A 2005 view looking along Warwick Street from its junction with Dunkirk Road.  In 2004/5 a huge commercial unit was erected over on the Willow Road industrial estate and this can now be seen to dominate the sky line at the end of the street.

 

This property known as Warwick House is of a slightly older vintage than the other properties on the street.  Whether it had more extensive grounds which were subsequently commandeered for the building of Warwick Street itself has yet to be determined.

 

Warwick House as viewed from the canal.  In May 2004 when this photograph was taken the property was up for sale.  Its continued future will no doubt depend on what any new owner has in mind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photograph by Paul Bexon - 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

This 2005 view shows Warwick Street looking towards Abbey Street and the Queens Medical Centre.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Family Memories

Julia Pearl - Perth, Western Australia
Your 2005 photograph of Warwick Street, featured above, is of particular interest to me as I lived at 1A Warwick Street between 1955 and 1966. 1A is the property with the privet hedge, which was also there in my day, and has the black car parked alongside it.  No.3, the adjoining property used to be a grocer's shop owned by Joan and Frank Ellis.  They had two sons, Frankie and Jimmy, who were slightly older than me.  Joan Ellis had previously been a teacher and took up teaching again after they left the shop in the late 60s/early 70s.  Grenville and Shirley Murden then took over the shop.  The Murden family were longstanding residents of the area and Graham's sister, Soo Murden, later went on to manage the Boat Inn on Priory Street.

As is probably evident from the photograph, our two properties were built at a somewhat later date than other houses on the street.  They had three bedrooms and a bathroom and toilet upstairs - the latter facility was not all that common elsewhere on the street when I lived there.

 Let us know your memories of Warwick Street

 

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