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 |
 Lenton Boulevard, |
Lenton Boulevard looking north coming up to the junction with Church Street. |
Some time in the 1920s |
'J Spree' |
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 New Lenton Post Office |
Lenton Boulevard looking southwards with the Trinity Avenue junction on the right. |
Some time in the mid-1920s |
'Spree' |
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 195 Gregory Street, Old Lenton, |
Looking northwards along Gregory Street with the junction with Leengate just out of the picture on the left. |
Some time in the early 1920s |
'J Spree' |
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 364 Albert Ball Memorial Homes Lenton Nottm |
Junction of Church Street and Sherwin Road with Lenton War Memorial in the foreground. |
Sometime after 1922 when the Homes were officially opened. |
'Spree' |
Photo courtesy of John Hibbitt |
 Church & Crossing Lenton 1884 |
Taken from the railway line looking back towards the church. |
Spree clearly copied this old photograph and then added his own caption. |
Photo courtesy of Ian Carney |
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 Lenton Church |
Lenton Church viewed from the graveyard. |
Early 1920s |
'J Spree' |
Richard Wilson |
 Lenton Church 132 |
Lenton Church viewed from the graveyard. |
Spree used the same image as above but no longer tinted it and also added a number to it. Produced some time in the 1920s |
'J Spree' |
Richard Wilson |
 Canal Dunkirk Nottm |
Taken from the Canal towpath looking towards Abbey Street bridge |
Some time in the 1920s |
'Spree' |
Richard Wilson |
 Lenton Church |
Interior of Holy Trinity Church, Lenton |
Some time in the 1920s |
'J Spree' |
Richard Wilson |
 Gateway Wollaton Park |
Lenton Lodge viewed from Derby Road |
Some time in the late 1920s |
'Spree' |
Richard Wilson |
 Gateway Wollaton Park |
Lenton Lodge viewed from Derby Road (slip road) |
Some time in the late 1920s |
'Spree' |
Richard Wilson |
 War Memorial |
War Memorial viewed from the junction of Church Street and Sherwin Road |
Some time in the early 1920s |
'J Spree' |
Richard Wilson |
 Church St. Lenton. Nottm |
War Memorial viewed from the junction of Church Street and Sherwin Road |
Some time in the early 1920s |
'J Spree' |
Brian Cole |
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Derby Road - just west of the Lenton Boulevard junction |
15th March 1921 |
'J Spree' |
Richard Wilson |
 678 The Gateway |
View from the future Wollaton Hall Drive, looking towards Lenton Lodge. |
Some time in 1926 |
'Spree' |
Richard Wilson |
 The Prince's Farm. Nottm. 1 |
Grove Farm, viewed from the south bank of the River Trent. |
Some time in the late 1920s |
'Spree' |
Gary Lucas |
 661. Recreation Ground. Lenton. |
View from the Lenton Recreation Ground from the Derby Road side. |
Some time in the 1920s |
'Spree' |
Karen Woodward |
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The Prince's Farm. Nottm. 1 |
Grove Farm, viewed from the south bank of the River Trent. |
Some time in the late 1920s |
'Spree' |
Gary Lucas |