From the Palais to the Castle, and from Trent Bridge to the Council House, a new book of postcards shows how well-known streets and landmarks in Nottingham used to look in days gone by.
Author Alan Spree has been collecting historical postcards for many years.
And his new book 'Nottingham: The Postcard Collection' pulls together more than 150 of these from the 19th and early 20th century.
As well as the places mentioned above, they include images of Wollaton Hall, Nottingham Railway Station, St Barnabas Cathedral and many more.
Alan, 75, was born in Nottingham and grew up in Glaisdale Drive, Bilborough.
The family left the city in 1959 to move to Portsmouth, and although he has lived in Spain since 2006 he still makes visits back here to see family.
He said: "My initial interest in collecting postcards began when I found a book on Wollaton postcards, and saw one that was published by my great-grandfather, John Henry Spree.
"I then searched for his postcards for many years, and in September 2018 had a book published called John Henry Spree’s Nottinghamshire.
"During researching and collecting his postcards I found many more of interest and this led me to publishing this second book."
Alan said he had fond memories of growing up in Nottingham in the 40s and 50s.
"I was very lucky that as a child we lived in a council house in Glaisdale Drive, opposite fields and woods.
It was just a short walk to a railway line to do some train spotting from the bridge, and a canal where learning about nature was part and parcel of growing up - although at the time it was just finding newts, getting frogspawn, sword-fighting with bull rushes and the occasional dip in water, sometimes not intentionally.
"In later years I visited the city many times and explored those places I remembered as a child and some that I had not been to before.
"Many of the places had changed, and mainly not for the better, so when I began collecting Nottingham postcards for this book I concentrated on the period prior to 1959 as that was the most evocative period for me.
"It was very educational to research all those places and find out more about the history of them."
Of course, not all the places featured in the book still survive today.
For example, the Gate Hangs Well pub on the corner of Brewhouse Yard and Castle Road - pictured above in around 1901 - closed in 1905.
Alan last visited the city in 2019, and said he was impressed with the public transport system - but felt that much of the city seemed to have been developed for the student population.
* 'Nottingham: The Postcard Collection' by Alan Spree is published by Amberley Publishing on January 15 priced £14.99 and is available at local bookshops and online book retailers.
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