Sports and Games

Physical activity played a big part in Nunsthorpe life, especially for the schoolchildren. There may well be some sports and games in this gallery that the children of today do not know about.Continue readingSports and Games

High Days and Holidays

The photographs in this gallery are organised around those special days when the usual rhythms of life in the Garden City were put on hold…Continue readingHigh Days and Holidays

Early Days in Garden City

The pictures in this gallery show how Nunsthorpe used to look in the early days.Continue readingEarly Days in Garden City

Gatherings and Performances

This gallery shows the people of Nunsthorpe, of all ages, performing and gathering together in community.Continue readingGatherings and Performances

School and the Quad

This gallery shows Nunsthorpe School and its beloved quadrangle.Continue readingSchool and the Quad

Nunsthorpe Stories Exhibition Event

You are warmly invited to attend our exhibition event on Friday 9th June at Centre 4, Wooton Road Nunsthorpe. The event will run from 1.30 -3.30 pm. This event is free to attend and refreshments will be provided. There will be an opportunity to hear about the project from the team plus there will be some entertainment and an opportunity to view the exhibition.  Continue readingNunsthorpe Stories Exhibition Event

‘Nunsthorpe Stories’ Project Launch

Do you remember the invasion of the little green monsters?

Nunsthorpe does not appear in the national press with any great frequency, so it does make one wonder how terrible an inundation and how monstrous their size must have been for the Times to take notice of the arrival of caterpillars in Nunsthorpe.   The Times 12 August 1970. Does anyone else remember the invasion of the giant caterpillars?Continue readingDo you remember the invasion of the little green monsters?

Sam Gardiner – Nunsthorpe poet dies.

This week sees the funeral of long time Nunsthorpe resident Sam Gardiner following his death on May 22nd.  Sam, Irish by birth, came to the area in the late 70s and lived for many years on Milton Road.  Though an architect by profession, his passion was poetry, and he rose to fame when he – as an unknown writer – unexpectedly won the National Poetry …Continue readingSam Gardiner – Nunsthorpe poet dies.

Fantastic images of Nunsthorpe from the air – this month 66 years ago

This is just one of a series of aerial photos taken of the estate as roads were being laid out and construction beginning on ‘New Nunsthorpe’.   These pictures taken on the 10th of May 1950, now reside in the collections of Historic England, who have now made their whole collection available online.  To see this and other images of the estate taken during flight …Continue readingFantastic images of Nunsthorpe from the air – this month 66 years ago