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.
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Postcard |
Location |
Date Published |
Publisher |
Source |
 Swimming Bath |
Highfields Lido |
Some time in the late 1920s |
No Name |
Anthony Levin |
 2. View From University Terrace. Nottm. |
View of Highfields Lake from Trent Building |
Some time in the late 1920s |
No Name |
John Wetton |
 Boat Landing Stage |
Highfields Lake |
Some time in the late 1920s |
No Name |
Peter Giles |
 Tea Pavilion and Boating Stage |
Highfields Park boating lake |
Some time in the late 1920s |
No Name |
Mel Collins |
 Boating Stage & Tea Pavilion |
Highfields Park & Lake |
Some time in the late 1920s |
No Name |
Anthony Levin |
 Bridge to Island |
Highfields Lake |
Some time in the late 1920s |
No Name |
Peter Giles |
 9. The Lake |
Highfields Lake |
Some time in the late 1920s |
No Name |
Mel Collins |
 The Main Front. Nottingham University. 1. |
Highfields Lake & Trent Building |
Some time in the late 1920s |
No Name |
Ian Wallace |
 University Nottm. 1 |
Highfields Lake & Trent Building |
Some time in the late 1920s |
No Name |
John Wetton |
 30 University Park |
Trent Building, University Park |
Some time in the late 1920s |
No Name |
Peter Giles |
 Lenton Hall, |
Lenton Hall now forms part of Hugh Stewart Hall of residence, on Nottingham University's main campus. |
Some time in the 1920s |
No Name |
John Wetton |