The pair of semi-detached properties featured on the left of this 2004 photograph hold the distinction of being the first properties built by W.T. Norris after he set up business for himself in the 1890s. See Lenton Times No.14.

A 2004 view looking down City Road from its junction with Clifton Boulevard. Since the arrival of the new flyover, road traffic, with the exception of cycles, can no longer use this section of the street to gain access to and from Clifton Boulevard.

Much the same shot as in the previous photograph but this one was taken in 2020. The one big change is to be seen on the right hand side of the photograph.

Our 2004 photograph focuses on this little building, No.8 City Road, now demolished. No doubt in later years it was converted into student accommodation but originally it housed a bakery.

This photograph of No.8 City Road was taken on 9 September 1951 when it was still a bakery. A fire had broken out in the upper storey where flour and sugar were stored. By the time the firemen had extinguished the fire the upper part of the building was completely burnt out. See Family Memories below.

The bakery building has now been demolished and in its place this property has been erected. The front elevation of the building has been designed to harmonise with the adjoining properties for which the architect/builder is to be congratulated.

Moving slightly along the south side of street from the last photograph there is this short terrace of properties. No.15 City Road (to the left of the passageway leading to the rear of the properties) used to be the home of Jack Hall. Jack was a very keen amateur/semi-professional photographer who took many of the more interesting old photographs of Dunkirk and Old Lenton that are now lodged in the Society's photographic archive.

The south side of City Road contains a number of more modern dwellings. While the ones in the far distance are replacements for earlier buildings the ones in the foreground have generally been built on what was originally part of the gardens attached to properties on Beeston Road.

The lay out of the newer properties on the south side of City Road ensures that they all have their own parking spaces whereas car owners living on the north side generally have to park their vehicles on the road, which now requires them to get a city parking permit.

The same stretch of housing as in the previous photograph but this time looking back towards Clifton Boulevard and the flyover. While some of the front elevations of these houses have been rendered, a less successful covering is where the bricks have been painted as in the 2004 shot. Since then the paint has been removed and the brickwork cleaned and the property now looks a lot better.

Most of these City Road properties situated at the junction with Lace Street replaced a small factory, which latterly was occupied by Frank Kirk Textiles. It was an omission on our part but we never took a photograph of that earlier building.

This property, which adjoins the others shown in the previous photograph was erected slightly after the others. This time we did get a photograph of what was there before - see the next image.

When this photograph was taken in May 2004 this house was no longer occupied and about to be demolished. It was a rather stark looking building - one of the few properties on City Road that is neither a semi nor part of a terrace.

The block of semi-detached houses on the north side of City Road looking back towards the junction with Lace Street, clearly the handiwork of one builder.

Although this building has undergone a lot of subsequent changes and is now used for residential purposes, the older parts of this property were originally a bakery. The baker himself lived in 'Peveril House' No.82 Beeston Road. The Society has a reminiscence from a one-time resident that local residents used to take their 'oven-ready' chickens to be cooked there in the run-up to Christmas.

The land on which this bungalow was subsequently built was originally used as the base for a barrel-maker. Later the barrel maker himself had the bungalow erected here.