Model Villages of the Nottinghamshire Coalfield
Details:
- Author(s) Matthews, Chris, with Clare Hartwell
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2022
- Pages 75pp; illus
- Publisher Nottinghamshire County Council
- Place Published Nottingham
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee housing & communities
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Library:
- Name Southwell Library
- City Southwell
- County Nottinghamshire
- Country England
- Postcode NG25 OEH
- Visit Southwell Library's website
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Notes:
This volume is a project outcome of a 'Miner2Major Landscape Partnership Scheme', managed by Nottinghamshire County Council and supported by the National Lottery, to inform and celebrate various aspects of the Sherwood Forest landscape. Explores the model villages built to accommodate mining communities associated with the Nottinghamshire Coalfield under such headings per colliery as 'Company and village';'Housing'; 'Amenities'; 'Other buildings'; 'Later developments'; etc. Sections include: 'Introduction - demand and energy, colliery company model villages of Nottinghamshire'; 'Pioneers of the concealed coalfield - the Leen Valley, 1860-1875 - Annesley, Newstead, Bestwood'; 'Renewed prosperity. Warsop and Mansfield, 1890-1919 - Warsop Vale, Welbeck, Rainworth'; 'A spectacular moment - the Dukeries and Sherwood Forest, 1920-1939 - Clipstone, Bilsthorpe, Bidworth, Edwinstone, Ollerton, Calverton'. It seems that the sections on individual collieries were reprinted and distributed