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Latest Website Updates - 19th July 2026
Dunkirk FC - New Section,
Lenton Council Infants - New Photographs - 1951/52,
Lenton Lodge - New AI Version of Spree Photograph,
Midland Avenue - 2 New Photographs,
Nottingham University - Cripps Hall - New Section,
Nottingham University - Lenton Hurst - New Aerial Photograph,
Recent Updates
Harriman's Lane/Police Pond - 3 New Images,
Lenton Infants School - 1949 Photograph - Some Names Added,
Nottingham University - New Section,
Nottingham University - Willoughby Hall - New Section
Spree Postcard Updates
Carlton - New Postcards,
East Bridgford - 2 New Postcards,
Keyworth - New Section,
Mansfield Road, Nottingham - New Postcard,
Nether Broughton - New Postcard,
Trent Bridge and Victoria Embankment - New Postcards,
Lenton Times Issue 52 - Electronic Issue Now Available
Featuring
Howarth Nuttall: The Lenton Billiards Entrepreneur - John Wilkinson: Lenton's Famous Cattle Breeder - The Allen Family of Old Lenton - The Dudley Brothers of Old Lenton - Michael Lewis and His Wife, Hilda Lewis, The Nottingham Novelist - The Isgar Family and Jasmine Cottage - Society Snips
Gallery Addition - Dunkirk Fire Station
One of the latest additions to the Lenton Gallery focuses on Dunkirk Fire Station. Lenton's fire station had previously been based on Triumph Road but a new station on Abbey Road was opened in 1960 which was known as Dunkirk Fire Station. Our new section contains a number of early photographs of the fire station plus a photographic tour of the fire station both inside and out undertaken in 2005. In 2009 the new Highfields Fire Station on Hassocks Lane, Beeston was opened which meant that both Dunkirk and Beeston Fires Stations were now surplus to requirements. We conclude with a few shots of the Dunkirk Fire Station boarded up and ready for demoltion plus a couple of shots of the site after demolition has taken place.
Click here to view the page
Lenton Local History Society. 2026 Programme of Talks details now available
New Electronic Copies of Back Issues of Lenton Times
In recent years we have been busy creating electronic versions of some of the earlier editions of Lenton Times. A small number of coloured illustrations have been included where appropriate. The magazines are in PDF format and viewable on PC's, laptops or mobile devices.
New electronic copies of Lenton Times now available:- Issue 9, Issue 10, Issue 11, Issue 12, Issue 13, Issue 14, Issue 15, Issue 16, Issue 17, Issue 18, Issue 19, Issue 20, Issue 21 and Issue 22.
Also, click here for the Back Copies Index
J. Spree - Nottingham Postcard Publisher
John Henry Spree (1869-1932), one-time Lenton resident, was a prolific publisher of picture postcards using his own photographs, not only of Nottingham and the county but also of villages in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire.
Our website currently contains postcards of Nottingham: Basford, City Centre, Clifton Grove, Lenton, Sherwood, University/Highfields Park, Victoria Embankment/Trent Bridge, Wollaton, Wollaton Park and Estate. Nottinghamshire: Arnold and Daybrook, Aslockton, Blidworth, Car Colston, Carlton, Cropwell Bishop, Cropwell Butler, East Bridgford, Elton, Gedling, Gonalston, Hickling, Sibthorpe, Teversal, Trowell, Whatton, Willoughby on the Wolds, Woodborough. Derbyshire: Chee Tor, Marpool, Somercotes. Leicestershire: Long Clawson, Old Dalby: Saxelby. Lincolnshire: Anderby Creek, Huttoft, Mumby, Sutton on Sea, Woolsthorpe.
Click here for our postcard index
Electronic Copies of Lenton Times - 2026 Subscription
Subscribe for the two issues of Lenton Times to be published in 2026 - due out June 2026 & December 2026 and get a free electronic copy of your choice from Issue 9 to Issue 51 for just £4.
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Lenton Gallery
Shows photographs of the Lenton, Dunkirk & Wollaton areas Past and Present
The Lenton Listener
Selected articles from the magazine produced for Lenton Community Association between 1979 and 1988
Lenton Times Back Copies
We have revamped all the pages relating to Lenton Times backcopies. There is now one index which will link you to a separate page for each issue.
Issues No.1 - 8 have now sold out. So we are providing access on the website to all the articles that were included in these particular issues.
Special Offer now available
Nottingham at War: 1914-1919 & Lenton: A Suburb's Sacrifice
In the 1990s the Society established a project to learn more about the Lenton men and women who died as a result of the First World War.
It has now culminated in a new publication entitled Nottingham at War: 1914-1919 & Lenton: A Suburb's Sacrifice, published by Lenton Times in association with Leen Editions.
Special Offer for 2026
A review of
The History of the Parish and Priory of Lenton
by John Thomas Godfrey - 1884
The book was reviewed in the Nottingham Daily Express and published over four issues during December 1884 to January 1885
To read the review click here
Lenton Local History Society
General information about the Society, current programme of events and contact details