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LeftLion Magazine Issue #195 May 2026

Featuring Green Hustle, Notts festivals, ALT BLK ERA, Breakin' Convention festival, Red Sea FC, cinema events by Will Bailey, and plenty more... 

93-year-old Edna Owen recounts meeting her husband at The Palais in 1950

This month's cover, illustrated by our designer Natalie Owen, draws inspiration from the generations of dance at The Palais. Adding a personal touch, Natalie spoke to her grandma, Edna Owen, about how her grandparents first met there.

Hidden History Tour

TITUS: T.Rex is King Exhibition

Advertising Sectioned: The Photo Centre on Pelham Street c.1958

Nottingham adverts ripped from the pages of history...

Advertising Sectioned: Teleview in Comfort with Goodwood Furnishers (c.1957)

Wayne Burrows takes us back to 1957, where watching the telly could be enjoyed from the comfort of the tele-circle

Advertising Sectioned: Butlins: For Your Holiday (c.1954)

"Say what you like about there being no Butlins anywhere near Nottingham, we all know that Skegness is closer to the heart of this city than, say, West Bridgford"

Nottingham Advert from 1954: The Morley Shirt

It's this radical and dissenting side of Morley that has attracted fresh attention of late, not least from Matthew Chesney, director of Backlit Gallery.

David Kershaw (5 Jan 1952 - 5 Aug 2015)

"He opened a flash mob by tap dancing down the steps of the Council House. This was a moment that many of his friends are choosing to remember him by."

Graham Joyce (22 October 1954 - 9 September 2014)

Winner of the British Fantasy Award an incredible seven times and a genuinely lovely chap. Goodbye, you crazy diamond.

RIP Pete Davis (22 March 1950 - 4 August 2014)

Storyteller, fireman and author of Under Bestwood passes away

A History of Nottingham on Television 1953-2014

From The Archive: Dale Winton (1955 - 2018)

"You learn all aspects of the industry - it taught me how to write, how to prepare. I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing now had it not been for radio"

Interview: Michael Eaton on Fellow Traveller

"There’s nobody else who has spread across all the generations in so many forms"

Dot to Dot 07 - Part 2: live bands

Mark Askwith: 1954-2006

"His band, in its variously amended line-ups, was to frustrate and confound the Nottingham music scene throughout the eighties"

A History of Notts on TV 1950-2005

Nottingham's had more appearances on the telly box that you might think...

Nottingham Ghost Tour

The leaflet for this tour had said that the Guide would be `recognisable'.
I immediately started looking for a grey Ghostbusters boiler suit...