Sepia-tinted postcard showing a view of flower beds and lodge at the edge of the lake in the Nottingham Arboretum. The Nottingham Arboretum was designed by Samuel Curtis and opened in 1852, originally with admission fees charged, but a legal dispute (1855-7) resulted in these being discontinued. Various buildings (lodge, refreshment rooms, Addison Street bridge) were designed during the 1850s-60s by Henry Moses Wood, the corporation surveyor. A pagoda or Chinese bell tower, designed by Marriott Ogle Tarbotton, was installed in 1862 to house a bell taken by British troops from Canton in the 1857-61 opium war