Two Bronze Swords
A Bronze Axehead with a part of the original wooden shaft still in the axehead.
Socketed Bronze knife
Decorated Bronze Axehead
And other small objects of general interest, these all where donated to the Nottingham Castle Museum.

On the other side of the River Trent (Holme Perrepoint) other traces were found of bronze age life when a wooden fence (or Palisade) and 3 bronze age canoes where found during extension to gravel workings.  So it would seem that they were possibly several settlement's around the Colwick area on both sides of the River Trent.  There is evidence of other, much older life in the shape of a fossilized footprint of a rare amphibian, of a Salamander or Mastconsaurus this was found when the railway cutting was made by the then Midland Rail Company.
Palaeontogical remains of  shoals of ganoid (enamel -scaled fish) in the upper Keuper at Colwick Woods.

Colwick Village was in fact two  villages until approximately the 12th century. One of the villages was made into the Manor or Park this area now has been swallowed up by the sprawling City of Nottingham.  The remainder of Colwick was known as Over Colwick, later name Taynes Land and later still Nether Colwick these days just known as Colwick.

The Doomsday Book refers to Over Colwick being owned by Waleraun and boasted a church and a water mill, and attached to the manor was important free fishery rights.
From these old records a grand total of 80 people lived in the village of Colwick.
The family of Colwick were supposed to have taken the name of Colwick and used it as their family name there is no known record of the original family name of the owners. William de Colwick was first mention in 1174, in Court Records.

There are as already mentioned few records, the next major incident was the purchase of land from the then Col Davies to a racing Syndicate who laid out the present day racecourse, which was opened to the general public on the 19th of August 1892, the Colwick Hall was opened as a public house which is adjacent to the racecourse.

 By the year 1893 Colwick now had a population of approximately 600 people, the main reason appears to be the railway which brought employment to the local villages, which up to this time was farming.
With the advent of the railway also factories arrived one of the more notable was William Lawrence & Co  which built furniture, this factory was the second biggest in Europe.
As with all villages which move into the industrial age there is a great strain on the local resources such as sewage, general drainage.  During the early 20th century better drainage was provided and also in 1922 electricity was brought into the village, the local power station was owned by Jardines which provided the power. In 1926 the Vale Social Club was built and also on the opposite side of the road Parish Hall.

The above building is referred to as the Colwick Farm in very bad state or repair. (2000)

The years after the second world war saw many of the old fields turned into building land for housing many of which still carry the name of the old named fields as street names.
During the 1960's Nottingham Corporation bought the racecourse and announced they where to make it a regional sports centre.  The Colwick racecourse, the nature park which includes a man made lake now covers many of the old fields which where used as flood plain.

The Colwick nature park was made in ***** this was done by placing sluice gates in the River Trent which enable the water level to be increased by 10 feet (3Mtrs) this at the same time enable the Water Sport Centre at Holme Perrepoint to be created.

Many of the old factories are now closed and smaller units house the new modern business's, the first official public house was opened called the Starting Gate  during the 1970's.

The Colwick church still exists but this is in ruin, and this is a later version which was built in the in the 16th century at great expense by Sir John Musters after he acquired Colwick Hall.
 

During the 1900's steamers used to travel from Nottingham City at Trent Bridge to the Colwick Park which,

had a small pleasure park intended for children to play, there was a small wildlife park,  3 public bars and a restaurant, the surrounding trees where lit by thousands of fairy lights illuminating the trees during the summer evenings.  The power plant was housed in a glass building so all could see the generator.