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I would just like to say what a fan I am of your site.  Since moving to Nottingham a few months ago, I've taken a keen interest in the history of my new home. I have been devouring all the local history books in the local library, and your site is an excellent reference for comparing old pictures in the books with modern-day Nottingham.  Long may your work continue, I'm sure it will be appreciated for many generations to come!

Heather Hanger, Nottingham, 22nd August 2008

I've only just discovered your web site showing lot of photos of Nottingham. Not being born in Nottingham, though I've lived here for 40 years, there are still lots of areas & things I've never seen, & I'm happily rediscovering them through your lovely photos.

 
Karen Jane Hudson, Nottingham, 21st August 2008

’d like to offer my sincerest thanks to you for compiling this wonderful collection of photographs. I grew up in Nottingham and now live in Southampton and miss my home city sometimes. This is will prove a valuable archive in the future and is also 500% better at promoting the city as a tourist destination than any of the hugely costly websites commissioned by the council in recent years! I believe Nottingham is the most attractive of the large cities in England by a long way and your photographs help me prove it to friends and colleagues down here in the South. You are rightly sad about Nottingham's occasional planning misdemeanours, but they pale into insignificance at the side of the sheer folly of the local councils planning department here in Southampton ! They ruined this city and have the audacity to blame it all on German bombs. The people of Nottingham ought to be grateful that much of the historic buildings survived the madness of the 50’s and 60’s.

Anyway, once again, many thanks for the website, your photo’s are great. I hope you continue to take more as the city develops!
I have enjoyed browsing them greatly. Best Wishes,

Ross Holland, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, 23rd May 2008

I am John Rhodes, Development Director of Trent Park Developments Ltd, responsible for the recently built River Crescent.

I was very impressed by your photographs and appreciative of your comments. 
Kind regards
 
John Rhodes, Development Director of Trent Park Developments Ltd, 11th May 2008

I must congratulate you on your web site and its first class photographs.
Best Wishes

Ken Brand, Vice Chairman Nottingham Civic Society, 10th May 2008

I  have just found your wonderful site with the excellent photographs of Nottingham. I have been back to England a number of  times since leaving in 1966, but haven't visited Nottingham for many years. I am researching Nottingham to help in writing my memoirs and your photos have brought back many memories.  


Thank you again for your site.  As well as having beautiful photos it is so user friendly.
 
Ruth Morgan, Australia, 26th April 2008

I ran across your site by accident.
I stayed in Nottingham for a few months in 2001 and your site sure brings back some good memories!
Thank you,

Rebecca A Koscielniak , Chicago IL USA. 24th April 2008

Saw the article about your website in last week's Evening Post so decided to take a look. What superb photos!  Haven't had time to look at them all yet so have put your website in my Favourites so that I can keep dipping into it. The photos are really beautiful - I never knew we had so much sunshine in Nottingham - and the website is easy to read & simple to use.  I'm really enjoying looking at it. Well done and keep snapping.

Val Gant, Location Unknown. 10th February 2008

I read the Nottingham Evening Post article on you and your web.
What you are doing is quite important thing for all the people who want to know Nottingham. Nottingham must be very much appreciating you.

It is wonderful that you can do many things for your home town and , like me, people have a very good impression even before visiting Nottingham. You can be proud of your web. Very well organized , good photography, and very good comments.

 Mitsuko Tsuchida, Japan. 9th February 2008

Good for you Ray! Let's hope the City Council (tourism dept) are grateful for the excellent free advertisement for the City that your web site provides. Retired? Looks like you've moved from one full time job to another - I'm sure there's a lot more to it than just taking the photo's. Look forward to seeing the 2000th picture.

Terry Brown, Rise Park, Nottingham. 5th February 2008

What a fantastic achievement and great resource. You have done Nottingham proud and its good to see someone else who shares my dislike of many of the new buildings the architects of today seem so happy to build. Keep up the good work! 

Tony Travers, Beeston, Nottinghamshire. 4th February 2008

Well done Ray! Your photo collection is very good. Now my family abroad and any other ex-pats can log in and see how much things have changed in and aound Nottingham. Keep those photo's coming.

William Knight, Nottingham. 4th February 2008

I have just found your website via the Nottingham Evening Post page.
Well done, it is good that someone has taken the time and care to capture Nottingham.

Adam, Nottingham. 4th February 2008

Thanks from Australia for your excellent web  site.

Sam Hammersley, Australia. 4th February 2008

I found your web site via brewery history pages, and it kept me occupied for over an hour and I only skimmed the surface, I will be back to this very interesting site. I am a Surrey man but have visited Nottingham on a few occasions.

Rex Poge, Surrey. 20th January 2008

I've just spent a very pleasant hour or so perusing your excellent web site and just wanted to say, well done. I am not a Nottingham native but fell in love with the city within a few minutes of arriving at the Midland station from Sheffield back in 1975.  I was on my way to an interview out at the University and soon decided that this was where I wanted to be.

David Lalley, Long Eaton, Derbyshire. 11th January 2008

I'm enjoying your photographs of Nottingham. The best I've ever seen. Congratulations.

Derrick Buttress. 29th December 2007

My sincere thanks for a fabulous site. The subject matter is enthralling, especially for someone like me who loves Nottingham, despite being born in Ireland.!!!!!!!.The quality of the photographs is stunning. You should be very proud of yourself for the professionalism involved in your work although you probably describe yourself as an "amateur". I intend to return to your site from time to time and I most certainly intend to share it with others.
Once again my grateful thanks.

Declan Forde. 27th December 2007

Having seen your work on your web site, I feel compelled to write to you and tell you what a brilliant job you have done in recording Nottingham's heritage and long may you continue.

 
John Burns, Leicestershire. 7th December 2007

My colleague forwarded the link to your website.  I’ve just finished having a look at it and it’s prompted me to send you this email straightaway to congratulate you.  The concept of your site is most effective and your pictures show the town in a very good light.  I will be a regular visitor to your site.  Well done.

  Marie-Line Antoine, Nottingham. 11th October 2007

While searching for some pictures of Nottingham for students to use in a textiles project I stumbled across your website. It's a fantastic resource - would that the web contained more like it! I shall use it frequently and recommend it to other  colleagues. Many thanks

Janet Simner, Nottingham. 11th October 2007

Whilst searching the web I have come across your website on Nottingham . Firstly I would like to congratulate you on your wonderful work.   I am of Italian origin but grew up in Nottingham (lived there from 1957 to 1981) before coming back to Italy .  I often search the web for interesting news on Nottingham, since I still consider my “ home town ”.  All the important things in my life were done in Nottingham .

I have shown my daughter your website and she has thoroughly enjoyed it.  Keep up the good work!!!!

Giuliana Lacovara, Italy. 27th September 2007

I have looked at your site with great interest and congratulate you on a very interesting site.

Richard Edwards, Coventry. 18th November 2007

What a great effort in setting up your Nottingham Now web site. Great stuff for old residents like me now living overseas. Always a good place to go back and visit. Well done.

Tim Elms, New Zealand.  4th September 2007

I just wanted to say THANK YOU for your wonderful photos! I spent the best years of my life in Nottingham but had to move away 5 years ago because if my husband's job. I sometimes look for Nottingham photos on the web and they tend to show the tourist sites - and it's not those that I miss. I miss the everyday life in the city, the people, the shops, the pubs and the local radio - just what your photos capture. Looking at your photos brought so many memories flooding back, Ive got tears in my eyes. I've been away too long!

Thank you again and the very best of luck with your website, I hope you'll be
adding more photos in the future.


Sarah Jones, Location unknown. 14th August 2007

I have (today) come across your site "The City of Nottingham...." whilst looking for a photograph of St Mary's church where an ancestor of mine was christened way back in 1820.  Your site is great, I have bookmarked it so I can view  the town (albeit in
some ways a highly modern view) where my ancestors lived.

Kev Houghton, Brisbane, Australia. 11th August 2007

Just like to say I really enjoyed looking through your pictures of Nottingham from. I lived in Nottingham all my life,  I forgot how nice the town really was, many Thanks for reminding me !!

Paul, Nottingham. 8tyh August 2007

Thank you for sharing with us the city of Nottingham. a peaceful and beautiful place not to mention I am a No.1 Robin Hood fan.  I enjoyed scrolling all the pictures you posted in your site it is very useful and educational. someday for sure I will be joining with my family there. at least now I have an idea where and what places to visit.
 
Again my million thanks and God bless.
 
Anne Catherine Pama , Location Unknown. 6th July 2007

You have a fantastic site which I have yet to completely see- there are so many exellent pictures of such intersting places - I found Victoria Baths where I learned to swim. You really have done a great job, you should be extremley proud of it and everyone owes you a great debt.

Gerald S. Humphreys, South Florida, USA. 31st May 2007

We are looking for a front cover for our June / July edition of the magazine, and have noticed that you have some excellent images that would be ideal  for our front cover.

Sharon Langsdale, Nottinghamshire Living Magazine. 15th May 2007

NOTE: Unfortunately due to being on holiday at the time, I missed this great opportunity!!!!!!!

This is Joe Li from Hong Kong. I just had a glance of those sites and picture. They bring me back all those sweet memories when I had my first Degree in Nottingham U. I graduated from 1987 (B Ed) and then I got my Ph D in 2004. From time to time, I have go, went, gone in the city of Nottingham and the beautiful campus. I love all those pictures in your site -- a big Thank You!

Joe Li, Hong Kong. 11tyh May 2007

would like to say how much I have enjoyed browsing through your site. Some of the things I did know about and some I have learned about and have aroused my interest enough to go and take a look at sometime.

Gordon Barlow, Beeston, Nottingham. 24th April 2007

I’m the visual-arts writer and architecture blogger at The Detroit News, one of two major dailies in this embattled city. To accompany an entry I put up today on Nottingham ’s redesigned Old Market Square (I linked to a piece from the Times of London which, alas, did not include pictures), I took the liberty of including one of your handsome photos of the square. I credited you, and included a link to your website. I have to say, however, that in scanning through a lot of images of Market Square, I found yours to be the handsomest and most informative, visually.

Michael H. Hodges, Visual Arts Writer, The Detroit News, USA. 4th April 2007

I am compiling a fact file on Nottingham for our "Focus On..." feature in The Times' property supplement Bricks & Mortar, for Friday 9th February. Looking on your website Nottingham21 it seems you are a veritable source of information on the city. Having viewed the images on your site, I am at a loss as to which buildings and streets to mention as notable places. I wonder if you would choose 5 architectural gems for me to include and also tell me a few of the smartest streets in which to live.

Kasia Maciejowska, The Newspaper Marketing Agency, London. 31st January 2007

John (Holhes),and I are delighted with your web page!!! I hardly ever get a thank you so, it was lovely to see my name up there! We really enjoyed meeting you on Wednesday and hearing all about Nottingham 21.

Kirsty Good, Daytime Programme Producer, BBC Radio Nottingham. 17th November 2006

Found your site this morning to my great delight.
I was born in Nottingham in November 1939 and although I have been living in Western Canada for the last 30 years still consider Nottingham to be my hometown. I spent a couple of hours this morning looking through the photographs of the City and reminiscing
my 30 plus years living there.  Your site will undoubtedly continue to give me many hours of memories and pleasure and now I can
show my family and my North American friends where I came from.
Thank You for your efforts, please keep up the good work, I will be checking your pages as often as I can. 

Mal Talbot, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 11th November 2006.

Thank you Ray for your wonderful site. I'm an Aspley lad myself, but I now live in Maine USA. When I feel home sick I will visit your web site. Thanks again

Darren, Maine, USA. 28th October 2006

Finding your site brought back some very happy memories for my wife and I.    No other site covers  "our town" so well as yours.  You have done the City a great service. May I say how much we admire your choice of colours. The presentation is excellent. 

Les Lawrence, Wollaton. 28th October 2006

 

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