John Henry Spree (1869-1932) came to live in Nottingham c.1915. He had previously lived in Hastings in Sussex where he had published a limited number of picture postcards using his own photographs of the area.

An article about John Henry Spree is included in Lenton Times No.32. For more information about the article click here.

We are slowly assembling a catalogue of the postcards produced by John Henry Spree while he lived in Nottingham. Many of the images used on this page are taken, with permission, from the Picture the Past website. This website showcases various photographic collections including that of the Local Studies Library at Nottingham Central Library. If you would like to acquire your own copy of one of Picture the Past's images then you should click on their name.

We are keen to establish when Spree might have taken a particular photograph. So the earliest date for a used postcard are noted along with anything else that might help pinpoint when the postcard was produced.

If you have any Spree postcards not shown here we would be delighted to receive electronic copies of them. If you can help us out with the number, have a postcard that is already on the site but is in better condition than the one we are using, or you have an earlier postmark for your postcard please get in touch. To contact us - click here.

Postcard	Location	Date Published	Publisher	Source
Boys' High School. Nottm. 136.	Taken within the Arboretum Grounds. Approx. Modern Day View	Early 1920s	'J Spree'	Courtesy of Frederick Postgate
Boys' High School. Nottm. 137.	Taken within the Arboretum Grounds. Approx. Modern Day View	Early 1920s	'J Spree'	Courtesy of Frederick Postgate
Chinese Bell Arboretum Nottm - 141	Taken within the Arboretum Grounds. Approx. Modern Day View	Early 1920s	'J Spree'	Photo from 'Picture Nottingham'
316. Arboretum Nottm.	Taken within the Arboretum Grounds. Approx. Modern Day View	Early 1920s	'Spree'	Photograph courtesy of David Blackwell
Aviary. Arboretum Nottm - 988	Taken within the Arboretum Grounds. Approx. Modern Day View	Some time in the 1920s		Courtesy of Frederick Postgate
The Avairy (sic). Arboretum. Nottm. - 994	Taken within the Arboretum Grounds. Approx. Modern Day View	Some time in the 1920s		Courtesy of Alan Spree
Arboretum Nottm - 995	Taken within the Arboretum Grounds. Approx. Modern Day View	Some time in the 1920s		Photo from 'Picture Nottingham'
996 Arboretum Nottm	Taken within the Arboretum Grounds. Approx. Modern Day View	Some time in the 1920s		Courtesy of Frederick Postgate

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