Latest Website Updates - 18th January 2020

Lenton Boulevard - 3 New photographs, Lenton Council Infants - New photographs 1949, Christmas 1952 & 1953, Spree Postcards - Haddon Hall, Spree Postcards - Nottingham Arboretum, Spree Postcards - Willoughby on the Wolds

Lenton Times Issue 41

Available NOW as a PDF Download - incorporating colour images where available

Featuring
Ellen Maria Beaver: A Puzzling Lenton Gravestone - The Raleigh at War - Sylvanus Redgate: Photographer and Portrait Painter - Sergeant Alfred Joseph Knight V.C. - Our Sponsor's Story: Clement Pianos - Henry Farmer and Flora Cottage - Julia Hibbitt: A Life Recalled - Growing up on the Prom in the 50s and 60s - News from Highfields' Boathouse - Society Snips

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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; Lenton; Sherwood; University/Highfields Park; Victoria Embankment/Trent Bridge; Wollaton; Wollaton Park and Estate. Nottinghamshire: Blidworth; Car Colston; Cropwell Bishop & Cropwell Butler; East Bridgford; Gedling; Gonalston; Hickling; Trowell, Whatton; Willoughby on the Wolds. Derbyshire: Chee Tor; Marpool; Somercotes. Leicestershire: Long Clawson; Old Dalby: Saxelby. Lincolnshire: Anderby Creek; Huttoft: Mumby; Sutton on Sea; Woolsthorpe.

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Lenton Local History Society - Electronic Membership

Electronic Membership for 2020 provides: an electronic download in pdf form of this year's Lenton Times [May 2020] - a Lenton Times electronic backcopy of your choice - electronic downloads of the Lenton Messenger - access to the Society's online picture & newscuttings archive - a digest of Lenton news for 1937 & 1947 - plus a little research on your behalf at Nottinghamshire Archives should you require it

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Lenton Gallery

Shows photographs of the Lenton, Dunkirk & Wollaton areas Past and Present

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The Lenton Listener

Selected articles from the magazine produced for Lenton Community Association between 1979 and 1988

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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 - 7 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 2020

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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

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Website Revamp

We are currently changing the way the website looks. To see what the new version of the Dunkirk Road looks like click here.

The revised pages will be added to the site bit by bit and will take several months to complete. However it may mean that anyone who has links to a particular page may need to repoint to the revised version.