An image taken from Google Earth 2014. It shows Beeston Road running from the top left corner to the bottom right corner where it joins Clifton Boulevard.

Photograph taken from the Fire Station tower in the early 1960s shows the junction of Clifton Boulevard and Beeston Road.

The first part of Clifton Boulevard was built in the 1930s. This photograph from the early 1960s shows tipping underway in the foreground prior to the construction of the next part of the Boulevard.

Photograph taken in the late 1950s shows the end of Clifton Boulevard at its junction with Beeston Road and Abbey Street, with the three-storey cane factory centre left.

This photograph shows the start of Beeston Road as it looked in the 1950s. The buildings in the foreground on either side of the road have since been demolished. This image and several others displayed on this page can be found on the Picture the Past website. If you click here it will take you to the relevant page on the Picture the Past website.

More or less the same shot as in the previous photograph. The original photograph can be found on the Picture the Past website.

Graham's Shops at the corner of Beeston Road and Montpelier Road. This photograph was taken in 1934 shortly before its partial demolition while Clifton Boulevard was under construction. The left-hand portion of the shop was retained until it too was demolished in the early 1960s.

Part of the original Graham's Store which stood at the junction of Montpelier Road and Beeston Road. This photograph is currently used in a display at Brewhouse Yard Museum.

When the right handside of Graham's shop was pulled down, this small two-storey extension was put up in its place. The original photograph can be found on the Picture the Past website.

The open space at the front of this 1998 photograph would be where Graham's shop would once have stood.

A 1986 photograph taken from the tower of Dunkirk Fire Station showing the original flyover and the view looking down Beeston Road.

A 2012 view of the new flyover but taken at ground level with Beeston Road just visible on the far side of the flyover.

In 2012 Claire Pendrous was a passenger in a stationary car on the flyover so she was able to get this view looking down on Beeston Road using her mobile phone. This and many other photographs taken by Claire can be viewed on her Flickr account where she uses the nom-de-plume of 'Lady Wulfrun'.

Most local people referred to this building as Fordham's cane factory. However by the time this photograph was taken in the 1950s Smart & Shaw's Furniture Store occupied the premises. The building stood on the northern corner of Clifton Boulevard and Beeston Road. The original photograph can be found on the Picture the Past website.

Probably taken the same day as the previous shot, the photographer has captured a view of the advertising hoarding seen at the rear of the furniture store. The original photograph can be found on the Picture the Past website.

The building in the previous photograph is now undergoing demolition so that the roundabout can be built at the junction of the Clifton Boulevard, Beeston Road and Abbey Street. Just visible on the right, in the far distance, are some of the Abbey Street properties.

No. 4 Beeston Road in 1929. Sam Woodhead stands at the gate. The sign by the door reads 'G. Woodhead Coal Merchant'.
See more our Lenton Listener article.

No.8 Beeston Road in the 1950s was occupied by Fisher's hairdressing salon. The original photograph can be found on the Picture the Past website.

No.4 Beeston Road in 1998 with No.8, Sid Fisher's shop, two doors down. Initially the shop was a hairdressers but then later offered all manner of things for sale.
See memories of the shop.

After Sid Fisher died the shop stood empty as seen in this 2009 photograph.

By 2011, when this photograph was taken, the shop frontage had been taken out and the ground floor converted into residential use.

In the mid 1950s Angela and Vivien Bexon had their photograph on the doorstep of their family home, No.20 Beeston Road.

In the late 1980s/early 1990s No 38 Beeston Road was the home of Adnan Pitafi, whose father was then engaged on a PhD at Nottingham University. Adnan sent us a copy of this photograph - along with fond memories of living there.

No.25 Beeston Road in 1996. In the late nineteenth century this was the home of P.C. Mark Cockerill.

The original copy of this 1950s photograph showing the Dunkirk Post Office on Beeston Road can be found on the Picture the Past website. The sign above the shop window indicates it was then being run by J & J. Gower.

Dunkirk post office at the corner of Beeston Road and Lace Street in 1998. The shop featured in Ken Gulliver's reminiscences in Lenton Times No.16. See also Lenton Listener article - Gulliver's Travels.

The junction of Beeston Road and Lace Street as it looked in 2005.

A 2009 view of Beeston Road looking back from its junction with Lace Street towards the Dunkirk Flyover.

Pretty Pot House in the 1920s. Built by Daniel Amos he then proceeded to cover both the exterior and parts of the interior with bits of broken pottery. The property came down to permit the widening of Beeston Road. Its site was on the southern side of Beeston Road at the junction with Lace Street. See also Lenton Listener Article - Gone but not Forgotten.

The junction of Beeston Road and Lace Street as it looked in 2009. The housing on the right of Lace Street occupies the plot where the Pretty Pot House would once have stood.

A 2009 shot encompassing some of the houses on the northern side of Beeston Road on the section of the road from Lace Street to Greenfield Street.

We featured this property in Lenton Times No.28 as No.64 Beeston Road was once the home of Herbert Allsopp, whose name was erroneously included on the Lenton War Memorial - the article was entitled 'Herbert Allsopp - Back from the Dead.'

Those planning the layout of the Dunkirk housing estate originally envisaged a road would be constructed from Montpelier Road joining Beeston Road at this point. A gap was left between the houses to permit the construction of the road but it never happened. Eventually this much more-recent property was built on the site of the proposed junction.

Looking eastwards along Beeston Road in 2005 with the section of cycle path which links University Boulevard to Greenfield Street.

The row of Beeston Road properties taken in 2005 which includes No.131 - see next image.

This cutting is a news item that would have appeared in the Nottingham Evening Post in the latter part of the Second World War. It relates to Noel Truman who then lived at 131 Beeston Road.

Taken from undated newspaper cutting but likely to be from 1947. The caption reads 'Mr C. Truman of [131] Beeston Road,gazes anxiously at the encrouching water which has reached his back garden from the flooded playing fields at Highfields.' The equivalent shot today would look across the Tottle Book to Phase One of the Science Park.

This image, showing Dunkirk and Highfields Park, was taken by Aerofilms in 1928. The photographs come from English Heritage's collection of aerial images covering the period 1919-1953. Click here if you would like to check out more of the images on the Britain from Above website.

An image taken from Google Earth 2014. This shows a similar view to the previous photograph taken in 1928.