They may be old but these picture postcards offer a glimpse of the University today’s staff and students will easily recognise.

They show iconic views of the University’s interior and exterior and most are postmarked around the 1920s and 1930s. One card, dated 1928, the year University College moved to University Park, is entitled New University, Highfields, Nottingham. It was sent to address in East Leake and reads: “Dear Doris, I have not been to see the University yet but am hoping to before I come home. . . Did you have rain in the night? It simply poured here. I’m afraid it will hinder the harvest again”.

The postcards belong to journalist Simon Harvey, who writes for the University’s Alumni Exchange magazine, and were originally part of an extensive collection amassed by his dad over half a century. The collection recently went to auction but Simon rescued these for the University archive. If you have any postcards or photographs of the University in bygone days, please email Simon at: simon.harvey@nottingham.ac.uk