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
352 Blidworth Notts.	Main Street, Blidworth Modern Day View	Sometime between 1918 and 1922	'Spree'	Courtesy of Alan Spree
358 Blidworth Notts.	St Mary's Church, Main Street, Blidworth Modern Day View	Sometime between 1918 and 1922	'Spree'	Picture the Past
360 Blidworth Church Notts. 2	Interior of St Mary's Church, Main Street, Blidworth Modern Day View	Sometime between 1918 and 1922	'Spree'	Courtesy of Ian Underwood
362 Blidworth Vicarage Notts	Blidworth Vicarage, Blidworth (now demolished) Modern Day View	Posted on 7th September 1922	'Spree'	Courtesy of Alan Spree
The Quadrangle, Blidworth. 617	A portion of The Quadrangle completed in the mid/late 1920s after Blidworth Colliery was opened in 1926. Modern Day View	Sometime in the mid/late 1920s	'Spree'	Photo courtesy of John Hibbitt
619 Blidworth Colliery	Belle Vue Lane, Blidworth Modern Day View	Sometime in the 1920s	'Spree'	Courtesy of Alan Napier
848 Blidworth Colliery	Blidworth Colliery, Blidworth Modern Day View	Not before 1926	'Spree'	Courtesy of Alan Spree
960. Belle Vue. Blidworth 33.	Belle Vue Lane, Blidworth Modern Day View	Sometime in the 1920s	'Spree'	Courtesy of Howard Wilcox

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