Lytisha Tunbridge in Lenton, Nottingham

'Lenton Green

Green is the new gold fine woven through our community,

cross-stitched point to point by paths, plants, seats

where we greet and watch the world go by

powered by beams of sunlight, weft with windows bright

homes, each mesh grounded with garden or balcony of our own

here we all have a slice of the sky'

This rock is in a small space in a city suburb, and I was delighted to find it. Lytisha Tunbridge, Lenton poet, has published two 'pamphlets': Every Last Biscuit (2017) and A Backpack on his Backpack (2019). She has also made several online performances, and her work is in several anthologies.

Thomas Helwys in Lenton, Nottingham

Thomas Helwys (c.1575-c.1616), born in Gainsborough, was a founder of the General Baptists. Broxtowe Hall was the family home. He married Joan Ashmore at Bilborough in 1595, and continued living in Broxtowe Hall, a place for dissenters. He wrote a number of religious works and died in prison. Thomas Helwys Baptist Church on Lenton Lane, Lenton, is named after him.