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

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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] Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) Full Freeview transmitter". UK Free TV. 1 May 2004 . Retrieved 20 October 2023. Kirkby-in-Ashfield East was the main station for the town on the Robin Hood Line. It closed in the 1960s 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. Mining Heritage, A Summit Circular, https://miningheritage.co.uk/summit-circular-a-look-into-kirkby-in-ashfields-industrial-past/

A new indoor market – named Moor Market – was created in 2021 by internally joining adjacent small retail shops into a larger space. [9] [10] [11]This closer view of the footbridge shows the station yard and the main building with boarded up windows behind it. To the left of it you can see part of the canopy of the northbound platform. 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.

Removal of market stalls inspirepicturearchive.org, (Nottinghamshire County Library services). Retrieved 9 May, 2022 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.Work starts on the new Kirkby Indoor Market www.ashfield.gov.uk, 19 April 2021. Retrieved 9 May, 2022 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] 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. This is when the new Kirkby Leisure Centre will open Nottinghamshire Live, 18 November 2021. Retrieved 9 May, 2022

Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1012926)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 14 November 2013. Kirkby-in-Ashfield images. However, we will then provide you with a link to a selection of the best Kirkby-in-Ashfield Photos state Nottinghamshire on Google Images with more images, current and old photos of the place: Lots have closed over the years, and particularly the local ones are dying out as there are more now in Kirkby town centre.” 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. Lund, Brian (1999) [1991]. Nottinghamshire Railway Stations on old picture postcards. Keyworth, Nottingham: Reflections of a Bygone Age. ISBN 0 946245 36 3.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 medieval church was destroyed by fire in January, 1907, and rebuilt in 1908. The church was NOT renamed.