Uncoloured photographic postcard showing a view of flower beds in the Nottingham Arboretum. Pencil: [personal message] [address in Braintree supplied]. 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