The project so far: a report

A chance opportunity
Back in February 2006 I read a report in The Guardian about a Dr Foster Intelligence Report, Keeping people out of hospital. It included the following words: ‘The people most likely to be admitted as an emergency to hospital three times a year live in high-rise flats and suffer from very high levels of social and economic deprivation’. It went on to say that Nottingham was the 4th highest area in the country with this problem. The report could have been written about Lenton, with its five high-rise blocks containing a total of 480 flats — almost a fifth of Nottingham’s 2,000 council owned high-rise flats and the largest concentration in one place. I see them from the back windows of my home, where I have lived since 1979.

After reading the report I sent the following memo to The Lenton Centre* suggesting that, should the opportunity occur, they should try to undertake a project which focussed on the flats, which are within sight of the Centre.

The memo that started it all
TO: Jenny, Carl and Andy
FROM: Robert
DATE: 26-2-2006

Down to Earth @ The Lenton Centre – a funding and project opportunity?

'The people most likely to be admitted as an emergency to hospital three times in a year (are) families and pensioners who live in high-rise flats and suffer from very high levels of social and economic deprivation, long-term sickness and/or unemployment. Very few have qualifications or own a car'. Keeping people out of hospital, Dr Foster Intelligence, February 2006

The above quote is from a report which appeared in The Guardian, 13 February 2006. An accompanying map showed the Nottingham Primary Care Trust (PCT) area as the 4th highest in England (after South Birmingham, Sunderland and Central Liverpool).
The report goes on to say that 'Many of these emergency admissions could be avoided and people supported outside of hospital through the right combination of health and social care provided at the right time. By focusing on these people, there is an opportunity for the NHS to support and improve their quality of life and to do so in a way that makes better use of scarce health resources. This is an immediate and achievable challenge' (my bold italics and underlining).

With nearly 600 high-rise flats within yards of The Lenton Centre, helping to address the 'immediate challenge' of providing support and social care to the residents of the Lenton flats is an opportunity TLC should consider exploring with the residents, Nottingham PCT and other interested parties. If we could put together a package of proposals for a TLC 'Down to Earth'* project, we may be able to attract funding which will be beneficial for all those involved. TLC could cost in the use of its facilities at top rates and I would expect such a project to employ staff, with a charge for overheads and admin support etc. It would also get people using TLC and help raise its profile.

Down to Earth @ The Lenton Centre could be promoted as a project to provide support and social engagement networks for Lenton flat dwellers, with the aim of improving personal health and wellbeing, whilst at the same time reducing the need for care and support from statutory services, such as the NHS and social services. If TLC does agree to explore this opportunity, through talking with the PCT, local doctors, residents and the Area 8's Health Development Worker, we should be able to come up with a project which hits all the right buttons to get the necessary funding.

I would be happy to take the lead in exploring this idea. It's an exercise with a beginning, middle and end — which is want I want whilst I continue to work full-time.

Robert Howard, 26-2-2006

Note: * Just a project working name I picked out of the air.
Attached: Guardian news report, 13-2-2006.
For a copy of the report as .pdf file (24 pages) visit: www.SocietyGuardian.co.uk/healthmapping.

About The Lenton Centre
*The Lenton Centre is based in what was originally opened in the 1930s as a communal laundry and bathhouse. In 1961 a small swimming pool for use as a training pool and by local schools was added. In 1960s the original mid-19th century housing around the building was demolished wholesale and replaced by the high-rise flats, some low-rise housing and a shopping precinct called Church Square. As a result, the bathhouse was no longer needed and local residents formed the Lenton Community Association with the aim of turning the disused part of the building into a community centre. Their campaign was successful and Lenton Community Centre opened in 1979. Not long afterwards the communal laundry closed and Nottingham City Council replaced it with a gym and renamed their part of the building the Lenton Leisure Centre, opening the small swimming pool for use by local swimming clubs. The arrangement was a great success and public swimming sessions followed in the late-1980s. In 2004 the city council decided to close Lenton Leisure Centre, so Lenton Community Association came up with an ambitious proposal to take over the entire building and manage it as a community trust. In the end, after a lot of planning and negotiations, the Association became a limited company and social enterprise called The Lenton Centre. In 2006 the city council sold the building to the Centre for £10. The rest, as they say, is history.

In 2004, as part of the old community centre’s 25th anniversary celebrations, I was awarded a £4,000 grant to research and produce a permanent local history display about the area before the coming of the flats in the 1960s. I also raised the funding for an extensive public consultation exercise in 2005 to help gather local views for the business plan we needed to produce in order to show the financial viability of the then proposed Lenton Centre. Across Lenton we achieved an 8% response rate, but only 2% from the flats. Just these two activities alone increased my appreciation of the flats and how isolated many of the residents felt from the rest of the local community. At the time I wrote that ‘Some (flat) dwellers want more, but seem unable to break free’. In the absence of time (I was still working as a Housing Manager and helping to produce a magazine six times a year) and resources I didn’t feel able to do anything about what I knew was a problem with the Lenton high-rise flats. Others were equally concerned, especially one of our city councillors, Dave Trimble, who happened to be the Portfolio Holder on Nottingham City Council for Housing and Social Services (until May 2006. He is now portfolio holder for Tourism & Culture, which includes community and open spaces).

As an active Labour Party member I have known Dave since we selected him as one of our candidates so long ago I can’t remember exactly when. He has always had a passion for housing and since I worked in supported housing as a manager (1985–2006), we talked about housing and the flats. Both of us believe that good housing is a waste of money if the surrounding environment is poor and one of Dave’s first acts was to create a green landscape around the Lenton high-rise flats. There are no high-rise flats anywhere in Nottingham which have as much open space around them and I am in no doubt that if they were sold-off the private sector would snap them up immediately.

Then came the Dr Foster report, followed a few months later by The Guardian’s partnership with UnLtd* offering awards to individuals who wanted to do a community project of some kind. It also coincided with my taking early-retirement (I was 62 at the time) because my wife had been diagnosed with breast cancer and I wanted to support her without worrying about my job. It also suited my employer, so everything happened at the same time. My wife has made a full recovery and, like me, has been active in the community ever since we came to live in Lenton.

Funding application to UnLtd*
During the early-summer of 2006 the 'Society' section of The Guardian announced an initiative with the charity UnLtd* to fund up to 1,000 small community projects by individuals, so I decided to make an application to UnLtd* for £4,500 and was awarded £4,000, of which £2,500 was for 5 x £500 small grants and £1,500 for project expenses. This ‘blog’ is my report of what has happened since I got my award in late-2006.

Project aims and outcomes
My ‘core’ aim is stated at the top of this blog. On the application form sent to me by UnLtd* I was asked the question ‘Tell us what you will learn by leading this project’. I answered as follows:

‘Local history teaches you (I am also an active local historian) to expect the unexpected and never try to predict where your research will take you, even if you begin with an end in mind. So it is with Down To Earth. I suspect that “life in the sky” is really for the birds and living in high-rise flats does isolate people. Research often ends up telling you what you already know, but don’t realise until someone tells you. I want to find out if high-rise living on a low income in an inner-city area is sustainable and what it will take to make this possible.'

I also said ‘Down To Earth is a leap of faith and needs money for work I cannot define. I believe I can make (it) a success and ensure its continuance so long as the Lenton high-rise flats exist.'

Good heavens. Did I write that? It makes me sound like a big headed sod!
So, how have I managed? Read on to find out.

Publicity and meetings
The response to the three Down To Earth flyers/leaflets I produced was disappointing and a Saturday lunchtime meeting I organised to launch the project attracted only sixteen residents. The launch was attended by our two ward councillors, Zahoor Mir and Dave Trimble, and our local MP, Alan Simpson. Despite the low attendance, the event was very successful in terms of those present talking about the flats and Lenton in general, as well as how some specific issues could be tackled.

From this meeting came the Wellbeing and DIY ideas, as well as the community garden. The idea of a community flat in each block was mentioned, as one block, Newgate Court, which is for older tenants, has a meeting room.

The launch was followed up by two meetings a month from January until June in The Lenton Centre, one 5–7pm on the 2nd Tuesday and one 11am–1pm on the 4th Thursday. Both sessions offered food and drink to participants. Despite the leafleting and plenty of posters, never more than three residents attended at any one time, with no one coming on several occasions towards the end. I’m not sure what I could have done differently and no one I spoke to came up with any practical alternatives.

One resident whom I have to mention by name was extremely supportive from the start. Anne has lived in the flats for many years and I have known her on and off throughout that time. She has strong opinions about why things are as they are in the flats. Like most of us, certainly me, her take on things is not black and white. Everyone has some responsibility for what has happened to the flats in Lenton and with society in general. Nottingham City Council get stick for not providing providing services or individual support, whilst many of the tenants have been educated to blame others and to take little or no responsibility for themselves. Others, with acute or chronic health needs, are left to themselves. Many do not know how to look after themselves or to budget properly, yet they are still dumped into a flat on their own because someone somewhere believes that this is what is best for them.

Thanks to Anne, these matters have been debated at length. Personally, I find it hard to fault much of what Anne says. Like her I believe society fails a great many people by not providing the services and the individual support that they need. Like her, I believe that we can afford to do these things. Our government and local councils choose to do little and, insomuch as voters continue to vote for them, society as a whole endorses their views. Of course there are honourable exceptions and we are fortunate in Lenton in having elected politicians who want to do more but, despite being members of the political party in power both centrally and locally, they find themselves in a minority within the ruling political party.

The Lenton Flats Steering Group
If there has been one bright spot in Lenton it has been the awareness among local community organisations, activists, local councillors and some city council staff of the fact that the people living in the Lenton high-rise flats needed to have their concerns and isolation addressed. This awareness has been linked to general local support for the flats. Their location close to Nottingham city centre and the large Lenton Industrial Estate, as well as the University Hospital (better known as the QMC) and two health centres, has, in the past, made them popular with would-be tenants.

Whilst Portfolio Holder for Housing and Social Services, Dave Trimble tackled not only environmental issues around the flats, but security, service and maintenance issues as well. Every block has a caretaker and in several surveys during the past year it has been made clear by participating tenants that they find them very helpful and quick to address problems when and where they occur.

There has been no great cry in Lenton for the flats to be demolished or privatised, although the latter is an ever-present danger. A consultant’s report on the future of all high-rise flats in Nottingham has recently been presented to Nottingham City Council. The report has yet to be made available to the public, so we will have to wait and see how its recommendations impact on the Lenton high-rise flats.

Just after I submitted my bid for the UnLtd* award in the summer of 2006 with Councillor Dave Trimble as one of my referees and the Rev Jenny Hills, the Chair of The Lenton Centre (TLC) as the other referee, Dave met with the Dunkirk and Lenton Partnership Forum to talk about the flats. This meeting led to the Forum setting up the Lenton Flats Steering Group to bring together all the interested parties, including TLC, Down To Earth and the Lenton Housing Office (which is located in the small shopping precinct close to the flats) and representatives from Nottingham University, who were keen to provide student volunteers to help with project work and a proposed questionnaire to all flats residents. Anne and several other tenants have also attended meetings.

The Steering Group has met regularly since then and now includes representatives from Framework Housing Association, the police, Castle College and the Church Square Shopping Precinct Group. All this has gone on at the same time as I was setting up Down To Earth and will continue after Down To Earth in its present form has ceased to be.

How I awarded £500 grants and raised additional funds
It is against the background I have described above that I made my £500 awards. I also raised an additional £3,000 for two of the awards from Nottingham City Council’s Area 8 Committee by using TLC as my sponsor, since individuals cannot apply for grants (Down To Earth is just me). That money has remained with TLC to be used on the identified projects. The City Council application forms are complex and very off-putting. So much so that I nearly gave up. It was only because of encouragement from an Area 8 council officer that I didn’t. I attended an Area 8 Committee and spoke in support of my application, where I found everyone enthusiastic about what I was trying to achieve with Down To Earth.

It is the ‘form filling’ which deters many individuals and small groups from seeking money, however laudable their project may be. Anyone who has filled in grant application forms (including UnLtd*’s) should understand why so many people take one look at an application form and give up on the spot.

This is why no one I have offered money to has had to fill in a form or even write to me. Some have and that has been a bonus. Some of my £500 grants have gone to people who know their way around the system. Some are being helped by others (eg. the community flat group is being supported by the Forum).

My last £500 award attracted £500 in match funding from Nottingham University (see grant no.6 below).

Anne has been my main ‘flats champion’ and told others about my £500 grants. In some ways I am disappointed that I did not have more requests for money. In truth, I am probably glad that I have not had any hard decisions to make in my role as Down To Earth’s ‘Fat Controller’.

Having now made my £500 grants, even though the final £1,000 has yet to arrive from UnLtd* (due end-October 2007), I thought it was time to produce this report and present it in the form of a blog, so that anyone could read it (I will publicise the blog site in the flats and in News From The Forum).

Grants made from the Down To Earth money awarded by UnLtd* (£2,500) and Nottingham City Council Area 8 Committee (£3,000)

1. The Well-being and Fitness initiative in partnership with The Lenton Centre to provide subsidised membership of their gym for three months, together with TLC taking portable gym equipment to the flats, and two 'wellbeing open days'. Funded by £500 from Down To Earth plus £1,500 from Nottingham City Council Area 8 Committee (will also be used in relation to grant 5 below).

2. A DIY Skills and Equipment Hire Service to help flats residents learn the skills needed to look after their own flats with some one-to-one support. Funded by £1,500 from Nottingham City Council Area 8 Committee (links with grant 5 below).

3. A Tenancy Support Open Day was held on 10 September 2007 in partnership with Framework Housing Association, City Homes Lenton Office, The Lenton Centre, the Dunkirk & Lenton Partnership Forum and other local groups. The grant paid for the hire of a marquee and The Lenton Centre so that on the spot advice about how flats residents can use local services and obtain one-to-one support. In addition food was provided in the Centre and at a barbecue outside the flats. The day was well attended and we saw residents we had not met before. I gave £500 from Down To Earth.

This has resulted, to date, in eight flat dwellers receiving Supporting People funding to enable them to live more independent lives with one-to-one support. Supporting People money helps vulnerable residents with a disability (it can be physical or mental) to live in the community. Even if the SP money awarded is calculated at a modest £50 per week, it will total over £20,000 in a full year. By any measure, it was a good investment of Down To Earth money.

4. West End Bowls Club is a small bowls club which organises bowls matches among its members in the nearby Lenton Recreation Ground, with occasional friendly games with other clubs, but it does not play in a league of any kind. All its members are retired and a number come from the Lenton high-rise flats. They have very little money and mentioned in passing that as well as meeting during the bowls season (usually late-March until end-September) they would like to use the park pavilion for social gatherings in the winter, where they could play cards etc. Unfortunately they could not afford the cost of hiring the pavilion. Hence my decision to offer them £500 towards their running costs.

5. Community Flat. Thanks to the efforts of Councillor Dave Trimble, the Forum and a few enthusiastic residents, City Homes (who manage the flats on behalf of Nottingham City Council) have agreed to allow an empty flat to be used as a ‘community flat’. Residents and the Forum are currently working out the details of how the project will be managed. I have promised them £500 of Down To Earth money to help decorate and furnish the flat. The flat will enable The Lenton Centre to take across its portable gym equipment for use by residents who are reluctant to visit the Centre (see Grants 1 and 2 above).

6. The Lenton Gift of the GAB (Grab a Bag) project is based on the experiences of a few local residents who, independently, had started to go ‘responsible bin diving’ at the end of the university terms (Christmas, Easter and summer) to recover unwanted goods and food which the students had put in or beside their wheelie bins. During term-time over 5,000 students live in the Lenton area. Being ‘responsible’ means that you put the rubbish back in the bin after you have been through it and taken out what you want. There are others who just empty a bin and leave what they don’t want scattered over the ground. This causes no end of problems for permanent residents and Nottingham City Council street cleaning and rubbish collection services.

Such was my concern about the nuisance caused by the irresponsible bin divers that I wrote an article for the July 2007 issue of News From The Forum, our local community newspaper which is published four times a year. The article prompted a response from three women who were active in the community and doing the same as me. They had come up with the ‘GAB’ idea and had set up a meeting with Nottingham University’s Community Officer to see if, with the support of students, much of the stuff thrown out couldn’t be collected, then redistributed to local residents who might welcome the chance to acquire some of the items no longer wanted by the students. This would make it harder for the irresponsible bin divers whilst encouraging students and others to be pro-active in ensuring the amount of waste at the end of each term is reduced.

Local residents living in the high-rise flats and near-by council housing (where two of the women who came up with the GAB idea live), are likely to be the main beneficiaries of GAB, so is seemed logical to commit my last £500 to this clever and innovative initiative. The University’s Community Officer immediately offered a matching £500, so GAB will have £1,000 available to help organise a Christmas collection in December 2007 during the last week of term.

We estimate that at the end of the Summer 2008 term we may well collect unwanted goods and food worth up to £50,000.

Other ideas that didn’t make it

A community garden. One Flats resident was very keen on setting up a ‘community garden’ for all the high-rise flats, but his involvement coincided with his deciding to look for a job. Within weeks he had found a local job, so the idea has been put on the back burner until he has the time to take it up. There are already a couple of garden areas around two blocks, but nothing all the residents can enjoy. The City Council were very supportive of the idea and even sent a plan showing a suggested area for a community garden. With the coming of the community flat, the idea may well be proposed again.

A Lenton high-rise flats history and reminiscence project. During the course of meeting and talking to local residents who live in the flats I realised that not all the older residents live in the one block reserved for older people. A number have lived in their flats since the 1960s, when the flats were constructed.

As I have already mentioned, in 2004 I received a Community Champion award to enable me to research and create a permanent display in the Lenton Community Centre (now The Lenton Centre) of the history of the Willoughby Street area of New Lenton before the flats were constructed in the 1960s. I have had it in my mind for some time to follow this project up with one about the history of the flats and the lives of some of the residents. Thanks to doing the Down To Earth project I have identified a number of people I can interview and plan to start interviewing individuals in early-2008 with a view to holding a public event of some kind in 2010 (it usually takes a couple of years to do a local history project when you are doing other things as well). Back in the early-1980s I co-founded Nottinghamshire's first ever oral history project, which took four years to complete, even with the eventual help of paid workers, but it's a challenge I'm looking forward to.

A Living Art Gallery in The Lenton Centre. A professional community photographer, John Perivolaris (www.johnperivolaris.com), got in touch with me after coming across the Down To Earth project whilst taking photographs at The Lenton Centre and asked if he could help in any way. He took some fantastic photographs which are on his website and at: www.flickr.com (type ‘Lenton flats’ into the search box to see three pictures or follow the link opposite if you are reading thid report online). Together we came up with the idea of buying four digital cameras, two Mac computers, a high-end colour printer and 4 large screen LCD monitors. Local residents, especially from the Lenton Flats, would have the chance to learn computer skills to do with digital photography and Photoshop software, take portraits and interview local people with the aim of creating an on-line picture gallery of living residents and how they came to Lenton. This idea is one I am very keen to see happen, but there was too much work involved for it to happen quickly.

A food co-op. Over 80% of the residents in the Lenton area are students in full-time education at the nearby Nottingham and Trent universities. One of the consequences is that there are lots of cheap fast food shops and take-aways, as well as cheap booze on offer. It is easier to walk a couple of hundred yards and get a roll or baked potato with a filling of your choice for under £2 than it is buy the ingredients and cook yourself. The Crocus Cafe and Thomas Helwys Baptist Church, both within yards of the flats, offer healthy alternatives for no more money, but people still choose to eat alone in their home or walking down the street.

One suggestion for tackling this has been a food co-op offering basic foodstuffs at competitive prices together with cooking lessons and, until the Lenton GAB idea came along, this project would have been given £500. There was no start date in sight, so I got the agreement of the person suggesting the food co-op to transfer the £500 to Lenton GAB.

A ‘Life Skills’ course. After several false starts because not enough people attended the first two classes of two pilot courses, a third attempt is about to be made. We will have to see what happens. The course, subject to sufficient attendees, will be funded by Castle College, Nottingham.

Lenton Down To Earth Healthy Heritage Walks. One thing that we can all do for nothing is to walk. During the summer I was asked by Lenton’s Gurdwara (Sikh temple) if I would lead a heritage walk around Lenton for them. I was flattered by the invitation and agreed to do it, even though I have never led a walk of any kind before. By chance, the Nottingham Primary Care Trust (PCT) was offering free training and accreditation for people interested in training as walk leaders, so I attended a training day at The Lenton Centre.

To accompany the Gurdwara ‘Healthy Heritage Walk’ I produced a map and guide which I gave to participants. Since then additional copies have been printed off as needed by the Gurdwara and I have made the map available on the web as a download at: www.local-history.co.uk/dlmap (or use the direct link opposite if viewing this report online).

I now want to take it a stage further and produce a larger map with more walks which will be published in the Spring 2008 edition of News From The Forum as a free four-page insert, assuming I can raise the £320 I need to do this. With another Lenton resident who qualified as a PLC Walk Leader at the same time as me, we want to lead two ‘Lenton Down To Earth Healthy Heritage Walks’ a month from the Crocus Cafe and try to encourage flats residents in particular to join us.

The cost of running Down To Earth:
INCOME:
£4000.00 = 4 x £1000 grants from UnLtd*.
£ 74.20 = from ‘Tea in the Park’.
£4074.20 = TOTAL DIRECT INCOME TO DATE.

EXPENDITURE:
£2100.00 = 4 x £500 and 1 x £100 grants already given.
£ 69.20 = Attending UnLtd* events in London and Sheffield.
£ 621.34 = Publicity related.
£ 224.00 = Room hire.
£ 201.69 = Catering.
£177.28 = Computer software for Flats History Project
£2793.51 = TOTAL EXPENDITURE TO DATE.

£ 680.69 = BALANCE @ 12 November 2007.

I plan to continue the Down To Earth Project as a Lenton Flats history and reminiscence project, which I now think could provide a starting point for the 'Living Art Gallery' of Lenton residents. This will help keep the Down To Earth project going. It will continue to acknowledge UnLtd*

What would I like to happen next?
Down To Earth has not been as successful as I would have liked. The time I have been able to devote to the project is a factor in this. I could list the distractions, all of them important in their own way. However, I do think the project has helped to raise awareness about the Lenton Flats and what it is like to live in them. The project has been able to help others who are also committed to the Lenton Flats because of their work or friendships.

There have been spin-offs which will be ongoing and to which Down To Earth has contributed ideas as well as money. There is still plenty to do. To be effective any schemes to provide support to the tenants need to be long-term. The take up of support and opportunities will increase year on year if those opportunities continue to be available. To date, the approach has been ‘stop-start, stop-start’ because funding comes from periodic grants rather than planned revenue expenditure. The Lenton Flats desperately need the latter.

Ideally, I would like UnLtd* to be impressed enough by my Down To Earth project to agree to its continuation for the next five years @ £4,000 a year, on much the same basis as the past year, except that the project would be administered by the Dunkirk and Lenton Partnership Forum and open to all residents who live in the Dunkirk and Lenton ward area. Form filling would be minimal. Alongside this guaranteed stream of annual income to the Forum would be the aim of raising £50,000 by the end of the five years to create a charitable fund so that the scheme could continue long-term.

My own involvement in Down To Earth will continue via my planned Lenton high-rise flats history and reminiscence project which may then lead on to the creation of the Living Art Gallery that John Perivolaris and I have spoken about. With luck, I should have something ready for late-2009, which means the gallery idea will not become a reality before late-2010.

Finally, what have I learned?
As I have already said at the beginning of this report, UnLtd* asked me 'What will you learn by leading this project?' and I wrote 'I want to find out if high-rise living on a low income in an inner-city area is sustainable and what it will take to make this possible’.

The short answer is that I still don't know. My report hints at some of the issues, but not all of them. If I were to include all the things which have been said to me by individuals living in the Lenton high-rise flats and by others about the flats this report would be much, much longer! Some of the issues, and even answers, have been hinted at: the lack of individual support for tenants who need it, the quality of the services provided, the mental and physical health of some tenants, the isolation. There need to be changes. I think the lack of any real social mix in economic terms is a factor. The Lenton flats lack an 'articulate class' able to identify issues and then speak up about them. Despite a fewer older, long-term tenants, most are young, often from ethnic and cultural minorities because they are refugees or asylum seekers.

As someone who receives Pension Credit every week, even though we own our home, I have some idea of what it is like to live on the economic margins. My situation is no way near as grim as it is for many of those in the flats I have spoken to. That my wife and I don't smoke or drink and prepare most of our food is a factor of course, but the reality is much more complex.

Of one thing I am sure, living on a low income is not sustainable without help and the level of help and support needed by many of the tenants in the Lenton flats is more than they receive. Today I have to conclude that for many on low incomes life in the flats is not sustainable, but provide the services and support I believe they are entitled and my answer may become 'yes'.

Any questions?
For further information about the Lenton Down To Earth Project please contact:

Robert Howard
3 Devonshire Promenade
Lenton
Nottingham NG7 2DS
Tel: 0115 9700369
Email: robert.howard@local-history.co.uk

20 October 2007.