Issue No. 45 December 2022 (£2.00)
Flight Sergeant Evered Arthur Reginald Leavers Remembered (3 pages)
In Issue Nos. 27 & 28 of Lenton Times we included brief details of all those with Lenton connections who lost their lives as a result of World War II. Recently we came across a much more detailed account of one of these Lenton-based individuals. Included on a website called RAFWatton.info listed under 'The People' section was 'The Tale of a Photograph: Flt Sgt Reg Leavers, Sgt Ian Overheu and Sgt Joseph Phelps.' With permission from Julian Horn who compiled the article and using some of the photographs that accompanied it we offer our own readers a more detailed profile of Flight Sergeant Evered Arthur Reginald Leavers.
Growing up with the Red Cow, Gregory Street (4 pages)
The Red Cow public house on Gregory Street featured in two articles to be found in Lenton Times No.42. The first looked at the at the original Red Cow which was replaced by a new building in the late 1960s along with the story of George Henry Maltby, the ex-Nottingham Forest footballer who was landlord of the Red Cow from 1935 to December 1950. Alan Bird is 'Ginger' Maltby's grandson and his memories of life in the pub, featured in this article, straddle both the old and new buildings. Alongside Alan's own memoir we provide details of the new pub's construction along with a list of past landlords taking us as far as the year 2001.
In Search of the elusive Ellen Grace Page (4 pages)
Christine Palmer, a resident of Weymouth, Dorset, got in touch with us to ask if someone could help with some family history research. She had spent over thirty years of trying to discover quite what had happened to one of her great grandparents. Christine had now tracked her to Nottingham. Moreover at the time of the 1939 National Survey her great grandmother appeared to have become a Lenton resident and would subsequently die here in July 1943. Could we help flesh out this final phase of her life? Yes we could - and a little further research at Nottinghamshire Archives by ourselves has enabled Christine to complete the story.
Lenton Successes in Kensitas' Cigarette Caption Writing Competition (2 pages)
At the beginning of 1932 J. Wix and Sons, the proprietors of Kensitas cigarettes, launched a competition which saw them give away each weekday an Austin saloon car to one of their 'customers.' Of the one hundred and ninety cars handed out five went to residents living in Nottinghamshire and rather amazingly two of the successful entrants were 'Lenton' households. Our article offers the salient details of the competition while also focussing on these local winners.
Edwin Stanley Brookes, Rock Cottage Lenton, and the Albertland Settlement (7½ pages)
During the early 1860s a scheme was launched to create a settlement out in New Zealand made up of emigrants drawn from the ranks of the various nonconformist churches in England. It was largely the brainchild of William Rawson Brame, a young man who had at one time been editor of the Birmingham Mercury and who latterly was intent on becoming a Baptist minister. He envisaged that once out in New Zealand a Christian colony would be established bringing the different strands of nonconformity together in one broad church. William Brame spent much of 1861 travelling around the country holding meetings where he outlined his proposals. His ideas soon found favour among some of his audiences and led to an organising committee being established in London working alongside some twenty five or so local committees. After Brame spoke at Nottingham in early September the local committee set up here included a Lenton resident, Edwin Stanley Brookes, who would have his own key role to play in soliciting potential recruits for emigration. The scheme came to fruition very quickly and by September 1862 three of Edwin Brookes's sons would be out in New Zealand and by March 1865 the rest of the family had joined them. To discover what happened next you'll need to read the full article.
My 'Starring' Role in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (2 pages)
In 1957, aged fifteen, Brian Fewkes obtained a job at the Raleigh Cycle Works in Lenton working in the wheel shop. He travelled to and from his home in Bilborough on his bike. In early 1960 the factory interiors figured in the shooting schedules for the film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning based on the novel by Alan Sillitoe. The wheel shop did not feature in the film but one evening as Brian was leaving work he was prevailed upon to ride his bike along Faraday Road in the company of several other cyclists while the film cameras were rolling. This shot made it into the final cut and Brian went away £2 the richer.
Working for John Player & Sons: Part 2 (3½ pages)
In Lenton Times No.38 we featured the first half of Chris Blackamore's memories of his time working for Player's which covered the period 1958 to 1971. At the beginning of 1972 he was sent back to the training school to complete the second part of his machine training on Hull and Slide packing machines in No.2 Factory on Radford Boulevard. On completion of this training he was sent to the new Horizon Factory, 
which had only recently opened on the Lenton Industrial Estate. Chris's second article records what happened to his career during the next twenty seven years at the Horizon factory.
The inclusion of this second part of Chris Blackamore's article has been much delayed. In part this was because we lost touch with him. Sadly this was because Chris died in a Nottingham hospital in September 2020.
Our Sponsor's Story (1 page)
For some fifty years the Lenton-based Horsley family have been providing chauffeur-driven cars for weddings and executive travel. From 1970 until 2002 the business was known as Ralph Horsley Limousines after which it was rebranded as Lenton Limousines.
Society Snips (2 pages)
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