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
383 Wollaton Church	St Leonard's Church on Wollaton Road. Modern Day View	Probably early 1920s.	Spree	Photo courtesy of Kathryn Deakin
384 Wollaton Church	Interior of Wollaton Church Modern Day View	Probably early 1920s.	Spree	Photo courtesy of Kathryn Deakin
385 Wollaton	Wollaton Village Modern Day View	Probably early 1920s.	Spree	Photo courtesy of Alan Spree
386 The School, Wollaton	Bramcote Lane, Wollaton Modern Day View	Probably early 1920s.	Spree	Picture the Past
388 The Rectory Wollaton	Entrance to The Old Rectory from Rectory Gardens Modern Day View	Probably early 1920s.	Spree	Photo courtesy of Kathryn Deakin
390 Wollaton	Multi-view of Wollaton Village. Modern Day View	Probably early 1920s.	Spree	John Hibbitt
Wollaton	Wollaton Village pump at junction of Wollaton Road and Bramcote Lane. Modern Day View	Probably early 1920s.	Spree	Photo courtesy of Kathryn Deakin

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