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

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Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1012926)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 14 November 2013. Jon TOPPING has a photograph of St. Wilfrid's statue overlooking the church entrance on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2013. The medieval church was destroyed by fire in January, 1907, and rebuilt in 1908. The church was NOT renamed.

The next view was looking from the end of Beech Avenue across the valley towards the church. The railing in the foreground was the boundary of the land of Martin's Sweet Factory. You can just see the edge of the outdoor swimming pool for the workers in the horizontal area on the left surrounded by bushes. (I don't remember seeing it used, though I regularly walked along that path. 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. 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.This is when the new Kirkby Leisure Centre will open Nottinghamshire Live, 18 November 2021. Retrieved 9 May, 2022 This was all replaced with industrial buildings, with the Station Drive renamed New Line Road and extended to serve them. 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.

Kirkby boozers feature in a gallery of his images shared with the ECHO, taken between 1991 and 2014. 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] G G Bonser, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, vol XLIII (1939) retrieved on the 3rd April 2023

The Sephton Arms, 1997

G G Bonser, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, vol XLIII (1939) retrieved 3rd April 2023 Sneak peek as Kirkby's new leisure centre is half way through construction Chad, 6 January 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. Full Freeview on the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmitter". UK Free TV. 1 May 2004 . Retrieved 20 October 2023. 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.In the far distance is St Wilfrid's Church, with some of the roofs on Church Street also visible on the skyline.