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.

Please Note - The mispelling of East Bridgford (below) is on the original 1920s postcard

Postcard	Location	Date Published	Publisher	Source
422 East Bridgeford Church	The Church viewed across the graveyard from Main Street. Modern Day View	Probably around 1925	'Spree'	Photo courtesy of Roger Chapman
423 East Bridgeford Church	The Church viewed across the graveyard from Main Street. Modern Day View	Postmark - 23rd October 1925	'Spree'	Photo courtesy of John Hibbitt
424 East Bridgeford	Looking towards Kneeton Road, with Main Street on the right. Modern Day View	Before October 1925	'Spree'	Photo courtesy of Alan Spree
425 East Bridgeford	Looking west along Main Street, East Bridgford. Modern Day View	Before October 1925	'Spree'	Photo courtesy of Alan Spree
426. The Hall. East Bridgeford.	View of the now demolished Hall, East Bridgford Modern Day View	Sometime before October 1925	'Spree'	Photo courtesy of Dave Mason
428 The Hill. East Bridgeford	View across the lawn to the property known as 'The Hill' Modern Day View	Before October 1925	'Spree'	Photo courtesy of Eric Bayer
579 Farmer's Street. East Bridgeford	Farmer's Street - now called College Street, looking towards the junction with Straws Lane Modern Day View	After 1925	'Spree'	Photo courtesy of Roger Chapman
580 Kneeton Road. East Bridgeford	Kneeton Road, looking northeast Modern Day View	Sometime in the 1920s	'Spree'	Photo courtesy of John Evans
583 Old Hall. East Bridgeford 15	View of the Old Hall from Kneeton Road, looking north Modern Day View	Sometime after October 1925	'Spree'	Photo courtesy of Alan Spree
663. The Hall. East Bridgeford. 17.	View of the now demolished Hall, East Bridgford Modern Day View	Sometime after October 1925	'Spree'	Photo courtesy of Dave Mason
667 Main Road. East Bridgeford	Main Street, viewed from the junction of Cross Lane Modern Day View	After 1925	'Spree'	Photo courtesy of Roger Chapman

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