Nottingham Council House during the Platinum Jubilee

Online jigsaw puzzles

Enjoy some quiet time with a jigsaw or two

Try something different with these free online jigsaw puzzles, inspired by the collections held by the Local Studies Library.

You can play as they are or why not change the number of pieces to increase the level of difficulty and the challenge!

Keep coming back as new ones will be created regularly.

2023.11.24 Sussex St Shops NTGM002130

”The Broad Marsh area c1920s’

This interesting photograph from the 1920s shows the busy shops on Sussex Street, looking north towards the dome of the Council House in the background. We have many images like this in our ‘Broad Marsh’ exhibition which opens on Tuesday 28th November in the Local Studies area of the new Nottingham Central Library.

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2023.11.10 Flag seller on Long Row 1914-1918

‘Remembrance Day’

Charity appeals were popular in WW1 and made a significant contribution to the war effort. Here, a flag seller on Long Row pins a fundraising flag onto a Canadian serviceman – we still have a few of these tiny paper flags in our Ephemera collection.

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2023.10.27 Angel Memorial Statue in Rock Cemetery NTGM012084

‘Halloween 2023……just don’t blink!’

The night for spooks and ghouls (and the new Dr. Who season) is almost here, and this beautiful Victorian angel memorial can be found in the Rock Cemetery on Mansfield Road, opened in 1856. The cemetery covers 13 acres and contains many finely carved tombs accommodating Nottingham’s illustrious dead, but also the lines and lines of paupers’ graves with their heartbreaking inscriptions.

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2023.10.13 Stag & deer in Wollaton Park 1964 PNLS001247

‘King of the herd’

As rutting season begins, this large stag stands watch over the red deer herd on a misty autumnal morning in Wollaton Park, 1964.

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2023.09.29 Teenagers at the Goose Fair 1983 NTGM006045

”All the fun of the fair!’

As we welcome our historic Goose Fair to Nottingham once again, here’s a flashback to the opening day in 1983 showing teenagers enjoying the fast rides.

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20230915 Statues on the old University College_1224312978

‘Back to Uni’

These beautiful sculptures form part of a frieze running along the top of the old University College which was founded in 1881 on Shakespeare Street, now part of Nottingham Trent University’s buildings.

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