The map below dates from the 1950's, it is a copy of a map my daughter brought home after a school project over 10 years ago.
What I find particularly interesting are the parts of modern Dogsthorpe which are in the process of being developed. My house is one of the few built in Lawn Avenue. The new school is there, but Central Avenue shops and churches aren't, and that the new estate turns into fields beyond Chestnut Avenue. Not that any of the estate roads have names at this time.
The showground is south of Newark Ave, the building was a large grandstand which I used to play in, it was derelict in the 60's and I could go through the gate at the bottom of our garden in Garton End Rd, cut through what was then Garton End school and into the showground beyond.
