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

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The two pairs of houses above the signal box are at the start of what was then the tarmac part of Orchard Road. Between there and Chapel Street was not made up, and so full of muddy potholes.

Removal of market stalls inspirepicturearchive.org, (Nottinghamshire County Library services). Retrieved 9 May, 2022 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]

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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.

Kirkby-in-Ashfield East was the main station for the town on the Robin Hood Line. It closed in the 1960s 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. Here the walk is coming down The Hill on the return part of the route. Our banner is hiding the wet fish shop, which was at the right hand end of those four shops. The row of houses is one of several in Old Kirkby that were built end-on to the road, but it's no longer there. I'm not sure whether this was the Salvation Army Band. The dress looks right but the badge isn't like their current one. Notice the man in the garden behind the band, standing on top of something very tall to take a photo. 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."

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The History and Genealogy of Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, A History of Kirkby-in-Ashfield http://www.oldnotts.co.uk/kirkby/history.htm In the 1980s I took up sketching, and the pastel drawings below were made during a visit in August 1985. The first was a similar aspect but from the other side of the valley, showing the Rectory as well as the church. The trees half way up the field on the left are around one of the hollows that had been fish ponds in earlier times. Pictures uploaded by its owners for public disposition in General in all the countries of the world. Some remain similar to the way they look today, while others have long since been demolished or revamped.