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

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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 ]

Tom Naylor - English footballer, currently playing for Portsmouth FC. Formerly of Mansfield Town, Derby County, and Burton Albion. John Wakefield said: “Pubs are the centre of communities, alongside the church - if you don’t go to one, you probably go to the other. They’re an integral part of social life, and I like the idea of them for that reason. I rather like a real ale too. This is when the new Kirkby Leisure Centre will open Nottinghamshire Live, 18 November 2021. Retrieved 9 May, 2022 Sneak peek as Kirkby's new leisure centre is half way through construction Chad, 6 January 2022. Retrieved 9 May, 2022The 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." 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 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.

Lots have closed over the years, and particularly the local ones are dying out as there are more now in Kirkby town centre.” The station was opened in 1917 by the Mansfield Railway along with Mansfield Central and Sutton-in-Ashfield Central. The line, including its stations, was worked by the Great Central Railway and became part of the LNER in 1923 and subsequently British Railways in 1948. This view (possibly taken from the '44 steps' shows the colliery in the distance behind a row of parked wagonsDocuments 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 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. The History and Genealogy of Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, A History of Kirkby-in-Ashfield http://www.oldnotts.co.uk/kirkby/history.htm 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.

Two days later I drew the next picture, looking south towards the cottages on Laburnum Avenue, with the old railway embankment in front, and the rooves of the houses at the bottom of Church Hill & Mill Lane on the right.

Oliver Hynd MBE – 2016 & 2012 Paralympic, Gold, Silver, Bronze medallist in swimming, younger brother of Sam Hynd Kirkby-in-Ashfield Central is a former railway station that served the town of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. History [ edit ]