This is the eastern end of Dunkirk Road at its junction with Abbey Street. The detached property seen on the left of the photograph is Bridge House. In 1928 Bridge House became the home of the Bird family and in Lenton Times No.22 Jean Bamford (née Bird) recalled her life spent growing up in this particular property. This photograph was taken by Reg Baker in 1976, shortly before the property was demolished, and is one of the images to be found on the Picture the Past website. Click here to learn more.

This photograph is of a much earlier vintage than the previous one. We are looking back along Dunkirk Road and Bridge House is just visible in the distance. The properties on the left were demolished just before the Great War.

Back in 1976 Reg Baker also took a photograph of Nos.2-10 Dunkirk Road built in the 1920s and, in part, were the replacements for the buildings shown in the previous photograph. The photograph is also to be found on the Picture the Past website - click here for more details

This property straddles the junction between Cloister Street on the left and Dunkirk Road on the right. Although it is the first house on the western side of Dunkirk Road it has, somewhat puzzlingly, acquired the number 33. The photograph was taken in 2005 by Paul Bexon.

This 1998 view of Dunkirk Road was taken from much the same position as the one above. Off to the right is Warwick Street while in the far distance are the three town houses that subsequently replaced Bridge House.

As explained in our initial commentary today Dunkirk Road finds itself split into two quite separate sections. This and the following three photographs show the middle portion of Dunkirk Road that disappeared beneath the extension to Clifton Boulevard out to the River Trent and beyond. On the left-hand side of the road was a watercourse - one of many that criss-crossed the whole area. This particular photograph taken in 1950, is also from the Picture the Past collection - click here for more details.

Part of the 'new' section of Abbey Street is visible in the foreground, while we get our first real glimpse of the Barn Houses. This and the following photograph were also taken in the early 1950s.

This next photograph offers a slightly better view of the Barn Houses. It is believed to have been a medieval building which in later centuries underwent conversion into domestic dwellings. Some believe the original role of the Barn Houses to be a tythe barn originally connected to Lenton Priory.

A close-up of the Barn Houses probably taken in the late 1950s. In the distance on the right is the prominent building that used to stand at the head of Beeston Road. Perhaps in more enlightened times efforts would have been made to save the building and re-erect it on another site but it seems to have been demolished without much local opposition.

Pedestrians and cyclists can access the footpath from the walkway under Clifton Boulevard which then passes round the edge of Dunkirk Primary School's grounds and brings you out at the point shown in this photograph. Beyond us on the right are the rest of the houses that make up Dunkirk Road while on the left is the Dunkirk Park Play Area created as a replacement for the recreation ground lost when the Queens Medical Centre was built.

An aerial view of the Dunkirk Park Play Area and this part of Dunkirk Road taken in 1982 from the Clifton Boulevard embankment. The junction with Marlborough Street can be seen on the right of the photograph.

Our final shot shows a view looking back along Dunkirk Road with the junction with Claude Street just out of the picture on the left. All the houses pictured would have been built as part of F.W. Johnson's late nineteenth/early twentieth housing development.

The P.D.S.A. originally started out in these premises on Abbey Street, Lenton on a site not far from Clifton Boulevard. This photograph was taken in early 1960 just before they moved across to their new building on Dunkirk Road.

Later on in 1960 the new premises erected on Dunkirk Road were up and running. This photograph first appeared in one of the local newspapers about the time of its official opening. These were purpose-built premises and this was the very first time that the PDSA had ever commissioned a new building rather than modifying an existing property.

This photograph also shows the new Dunkirk premises and is taken from the PDSA's own official website in a video entitled - Our centenary: 100 years of PDSA. Click here if you would like to access this video.

This is a more recent photograph of the building, taken by Glenys Randle in the 1980s, shortly before the PDSA decamped into temporary premises so as to enable the 1960s building to be demolished and a modern replacement built on its site.

In the mid 1980s the demolition men moved in and began the process of dismantling the building. Here a couple of men can be seen working on the roof.

A closer view of the building taken much the same time as the previous photograph.

Paul Bexon who took all these particular photographs then moved round to the side of the building in order to provide us with some indication of how extensive the old premises were.

He then returned a few weeks later and the building had been reduced to a few mounds of rubble. The tower in the background belonged to Dunkirk Fire Station, which used it for training purposes.

A close-up of the rubble with a sign still visible which read: 'This Animal Treatment Centre supported entirely by voluntary contributions is only for those unable to afford private veterinary attention.'

The suite of portakabins pressed into use as a temporary centre can be seen in the last of Paul Bexon's photographs.

This 2005 photograph shows the current building - the fourth to be used by the PDSA while they have been based in Lenton.