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

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This was all replaced with industrial buildings, with the Station Drive renamed New Line Road and extended to serve them. On the day between drawing the previous pictures I walked up the line of the old Central railway and drew this picture of the bridge where Sutton Middle Lane crosses the line between Southwell Lane and the top of Greenwood Drive. The extensive rust shows many years of neglect. The bridge is no longer there, and the cutting has been filled in. In the far distance is St Wilfrid's Church, with some of the roofs on Church Street also visible on the skyline. In 2013, plans were introduced to create a new civic square from what was a car park. [5] [6] Nearby permanent market stalls were removed in October 2014. [7]

The Rev. Sir Richard Kaye, 6th Baronet FRS. Rector of Kirkby in Ashfield from 1765 to 1809 and Dean of Lincoln. Kaye employed Samuel Hieronymous Grimm to make a series of drawings of life in Ashfield in the late 18th century.

Most passenger services plied between Nottingham Victoria and Mansfield Central, with some extending to Edwinstowe [5] [6] and Ollerton. [7] Swimming pool at new Kirkby Leisure Centre filled with water for first time Chad, 22 February 2022. Retrieved 9 May, 2022

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. Booth, Chris (December 2011). Gellatly, Bob (ed.). "Signalling on the Mansfield Railway-Part 1". Forward. North Anston, Sheffield: Bob Gellatly for the Great Central Railway Society. 170. ISSN 0141-4488. Jon TOPPING has a photograph of St. Wilfrid's statue overlooking the church entrance on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2013.

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I grew up in Kirkby and went to school in Mansfield. They have both changed a lot since then, but these pictures give a few glimpses of how they looked in the 1960s. They aren't a systematic record, most of them were taken on a couple of days walking round, once in 1965 trying out my camera and a new type of film, and again in 1968 when visiting. I've also added some older pictures of Whit Walks, and some pictures from the 1 970s & 80s. Railways

The town is served by the local newspaper, Mansfield and Ashfield Chad. [19] Notable people [ edit ] This 1968 pictures was taken from a bit further down the path (the church appears closer to the poplar trees). The signal and the signal box (which was next to the telephone pole) had both gone. The grass in the foreground obviously hadn't been mowed for some while, and was turning to scrub. The churchyard was closed for new burials in 1883 and future burials would be held in the public Cemetery. Ashes could still be interred in the old churchyard. 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. Pictures uploaded by its owners for public disposition in General in all the countries of the world.Full Freeview on the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmitter". UK Free TV. 1 May 2004 . Retrieved 20 October 2023. The telephone pole and the hoardings have long gone, as has the house on the right. I believe the row of shops beyond the telephone pole are still standing, but not shops any more. However, the tree is still there (when I last looked) though now well over 50 years older. 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 ] 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