Douglas Whitworth – författare

This fascinating new volume by well-known local author and photographer Douglas Whitworth takes a nostalgic look back at his home town of Nottingham, focusing on the thirty years after the end of the Second World War. This was a time of change for the city, when many historic properties disappeared to be replaced by Maid Marian Way and the Victoria and Broad Marsh shopping centres. Douglas Whitworth was on hand to capture the changing scene – old streets, apparently unchanged for centuries, their demolition, and the new buildings arising in their place. Major industries that shaped the city and employed so many people in the postwar period – such as Boots, Players and Raleigh – together with shops and small businesses, are among some of the 200 illustrations featured here. Images of leisure and entertainment include evocative photographs of the famous Goose Fair, while the golden age of steam is recalled in nostalgic views of railway stations and locomotives.

The photographs in this fascinating collection bring to vivid life the first half century of the City of Nottingham. They show the fledgling city emerging from the Victorian era into the twentieth century and the great changes which overtook it in the 1920s and '30s.More than half of them were taken by the distinguished photographer Frank Walden Stevenson, first as an enthusiastic amateur and later as the senior staff photographer on the Nottingham Journal. He was a man who foresaw that many of the Nottingham's older houses and public buildings were vanishing for ever and so captured on film a visual record that would preserve for posterity the city's rich architectual heritage. But Frank Stevenson's work is more than that. As well as possessing a distinctive beauty, it provides us with a glimpse of the everyday lives of our ancestors and imbues our vision of a past with a nostalgic glow.Chapters cover transport – guaranteed to kindle many fond memories – the city's major industries, and Nottingham during the Second World War. This intriguing book will appeal both to those lucky enough to remember the old Nottingham and to those who enjoy discovering their city's history.

This volume of photographs of Nottingham's public houses includes many notable inns, for which the city is famous. In addition to the most historic hostelries, this collection of archive images also records many of the back street pubs which disappeared in the 1970s when whole district of the city were cleared. The majority of the city's public houses at the time were tied to either the Home Brewery or Shipstone's - the local breweries - the beer of each having its adherents.Also included are a number of photographs of landlords and their patrons either celebrating or drowning their sorrows at the closing of their local. This book is a fascinating record of over 200 of Nottingham's public houses past and present, which will be of interest to both those who frequent pubs and those interested in the history of Nottingham.