Kirkby-in-Ashfield in Old Photographs: A Second Selection (Britain in Old Photographs)

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G G Bonser, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, vol XLIII (1939) retrieved 3rd April 2023 This view (possibly taken from the '44 steps' shows the colliery in the distance behind a row of parked wagons The last picture in this set is on the final part of the walk, crossing the bridge over the Central Railway towards Chapel Street. The shop on the right is at the bottom of Greenwood Drive and the shops on the left are just before Orchard Road (which in those days was unmade with potholes on the stretch before it bends right and had a tarmac surface). The number of hoardings is very noticeable – on the end of both shops and behind the bus stop (an area that had recently been cleared for use as a car park). The white road sign to the left of the banner is a school sign, and I think the dark stone cappings of the school gateposts are just visible beyond it.

The Duke of Portland is the principal owner and lord of the manor, which passed from the Stotevilles to the Cavendishes; but D'Ewes Coke, William S. Coke and J. Clark Esqs., and Mrs Catherine Hodgkinson, have estates in this parish. Sir Charles Cavendish began to build a great house in this lordship on a hill by the forest side, near Annesley Woodhouse where, being assaulted by Sir John Stanhope and his man, as he was viewing the work, he resolved to leave off his building, because some blood had been spilt in the quarrel, which was then very hot between these two families." The town centre underwent further upgrading, starting in late 2014 and 2015 to include the demolition of the old Co-Operative foodstore and county library with surrounding pedestrian plaza, to be rebuilt with a Morrisons store. [8] Howard Anderson, P. (1973). Forgotten Railways: The East Midlands. Newton Abbott: David & Charles. ISBN 0 7153 6094 9. Beyond the factory land is the a signal box and signal post on the Central railway. In the middle distance on the right, behind the three poplars, is Scothern's smallholding. The distant open space on the left is Church Field. The bushy area by the clump of trees part way down was around a damp, hollow area where Gunnera (like giant Rhubarb) used to grow. Maybe it's been filled in now.Mining Heritage, Kirkby ‘Summit’ Colliery: 50th anniversary of closure, https://miningheritage.co.uk/kirkby-summit-colliery-50th-anniversary-of-closure/

Lund, Brian (1999) [1991]. Nottinghamshire Railway Stations on old picture postcards. Keyworth, Nottingham: Reflections of a Bygone Age. ISBN 0 946245 36 3. The next was from the same place, but looking more to the west. The trees on the skyline might be the conifers around the detached graveyard. Kirkby-in-Ashfield was once an important centre of coal mining and railways in west Nottinghamshire, with three active coal mines and several railway junctions. [4] The former Mansfield and Pinxton Railway from the Erewash Valley Line was joined here by the later Midland Railway line from Nottingham. The Great Central Railway main line passed to the south-west side of the town and had a double junction with the Great Northern Railway Leen Valley Extension line to Langwith Junction and the Mansfield Railway to Clipstone.In the far distance is St Wilfrid's Church, with some of the roofs on Church Street also visible on the skyline. The town rapidly expanded during the Victorian era. However the closure of the coal mines in the 1980s and early 1990s led to a major slump in the local economy, and the area then suffered a high level of socio-economic depression. [ citation needed] 'Kirkby in Ashfield education in the eighteenth century as drawn by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm.' The now-closed Kirkby-in-Ashfield East railway station in 1963 Regeneration [ edit ] The area around St Wilfrid's Church is designated a conservation area, [ citation needed] and consists of former farm buildings built from local stone, some of which are listed. In the conservation area, at the junction of Church Street, Chapel Street and Sutton Road, is Kirkby Cross. This is the remains of a thirteenth-century village cross in dressed stone, and is a listed structure and designated ancient monument. [15] Media [ edit ]

The second picture was taken from the other side of the railway, looking further right, towards the church, with the land sloping down from the railway and then steeply up where cows are grazing in the Church Field. To the right of the church you can see the roof of the Rectory (now a private house) and on the skyline to the left are some of the houses on Church Hill. This view was taken from a spoil heap above the Mill Pond looking towards the town. Behind the railway bridge over Mill Lane are the houses on Laburnum Avenue. The church, and houses on Pennine Drive are on the skyline. One big difference between then and now is the railways. Kirkby had three stations and the area where we used to roam as children was criss-crossed by railway lines. Most of that has gone. There's a single station on the Nottingham to Worksop line, though it ia on the former GNR alignment (the only line that didn't have a station originally) rather than the original MR alignment. The goods line to Pye Bridge also takes the same route through the town. Some of the disused formations are still visible but some have been bulldozed. Documents relating to the Butterley Company’s Collieries, Derbyshire, 1871-3’, Society for the Study for the Study of Labour History Bulletin, 18 (1969), pp. 21-27 The station is in a cutting, and while the station was operational the banks either side were full of bushes and flowers. Thanks to the station master, Mr Brownlow, who kept the gardens looking immaculate – all the more remarkable because he had lost one arm.

Swimming pool at new Kirkby Leisure Centre filled with water for first time Chad, 22 February 2022. Retrieved 9 May, 2022 The last view is in Church Street, taken from just outside 'The Duke'. Manor Farm had already been demolished, which removed the tight blind bend by the Church, but the church car park had not yet been built, so the wall on the left of the church gate was still full height, enclosing the old rectory vegetable garden. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Nottingham on 95.5 FM, Capital East Midlands on 96.5 FM and community based station Mansfield 103.2 FM which broadcast from Mansfield. [18] The colliery was also locally as Summitt Colliery. The first two shafts were sunk between 1888 and 1890. A third shaft was sunk between 1913 and 1915. This shaft was known as Lowmoor and worked as a separate colliery until it fully merged in 1939.