Latest Website Updates - 17th November 2019
Castle Boulevard - 2 New photographs of Grove Hotel patrons, Lenton Council Infants - New photographs 1953 & 1954, Lenton Junior School - New photographs 1950s, 1951, 1954 & 1955 - No pupil names, Marcus Street - New photographs, River Leen - New photographs, Willoughby Street - New photographs, Photographic Queries - Lenton FC - can you help?, Spree Postcards - Leicestershire Spree Postcards - Willoughby on the Wolds
Recent Updates
Lenton Boulevard - 3 New photographs, Lenton Council Infants - New photographs 1949, Christmas 1952 & 1953, Middleton Boulevard - Major revamp and new photographs, Spree Postcards - Haddon Hall, Spree Postcards - Nottingham Arboretum,
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
Lenton Local History Society - Electronic Membership
Electronic Membership for 2019 provides: an electronic download in pdf form of this year's Lenton Times - electronic downloads of the Lenton Messenger - a little research on your behalf at Nottinghamshire Archives
Click here for details
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 - 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 2019
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
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.
Research at the National Archives, Kew
Professional help offered for those wishing to access material from the National Archives