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37421 on the rear of 1Q68, Doncaster CHS - Derby RTC passing Kingsmill Reservoir with 37099 up front 11/03/23
37254 approaching Sutton Parkway while working 1Q68, Doncaster - Derby RTC with 37099 on the rear 37612 25/09/21
37884 leads 221143 passed Kingsmill Reservoir while working 8Q60, Worksop - Barton Under Needwood Carriage Maintenance Depot (Central Rivers) 03/04/23
The station closed in 1964 and no trace now remains - the new Robin Hood Line Station 'Sutton Parkway' was constructed a considerable distance to the east of the original Midland Railway station.
Park history
Sutton lawns date back to the mid-eighteenth century when Samuel Unwin built his magnificent castle-styled cotton mill and family residence, Sutton Hall.
A 1795 survey describes ‘The Lawn’ as being 13 acres 3 roods and 29 perches with a smaller piece about 4 roods.[1] The survey then adds the ‘Lower Lawn’, being 4 acres 3 roods (see note 1) and 13 perches in size. The Dam being 7 acres.
In 1779 Catherine Hutton, a visitor to the Unwins’ home, writing to her brother, describes “A shrubbery which is the seventh part of a mile in circuit encompasses their garden, and hence the plantation is continued down to a lake and a bath, and beyond are walks cut into a wood.”
The mill itself changed hands several times in the 1800s before coming into the ownership of silk throwsters, Allsop and Dobson in 1920. The waterwheel and windmill have long since gone but the listed ruins, now known as Dobson’s Mill, have been converted for residential use.
In 1863 Sutton Hall was sold and subsequently demolished in 1865. There has been some speculation that subterranean passages exist under the Lawn Grounds, although there is little substance to this theory.
A new house was built on the site of Old Sutton Hall in 1884 and the grounds of the property were leased by the Sutton Urban District Council “for the benefit of the inhabitants, from representatives of the Unwin family, in 1903, becoming known as The Lawn Pleasure Grounds”.
A caretaker, Mr Henry Parnell was employed at a weekly salary of £1 1s and £50 per annum is paid in rent, the entire cost of maintenance being met out of the general district rate of the parish. It is a much favoured spot for the holding of al fresco gatherings.[2] The Lake (previously known as the Mill Dam) became a boating lake as part of Sutton Lawns Pleasure Grounds.
This is Sutton-in-Ashfield in September 1982; negotiating Portland Square is Trent Bristol RELL 362 on local route 142. New to Midland General as their 152 in 1971, it ran only until May 1984. The DVLA has it's colour as cream, which it wore as a Midland General vehicle when new! The 1976 Austin Allegro was even more short-lived, clocking up less than eight years before expiring.
Looming in the background is the Kwik Save store, which was unsurprisingly an old cinema, in this case the Portland, later Savoy, which showed it's last film in 1978. The whole lot was demolished in 1990. Oh, and I wish that I had photographed that Steetley Foden as well!
Pentax SP1000/50mm
Ilford FP4
Trent 536 is pulling out of Sutton-in-Ashfield bus station. It is a Leyland National 11351A/1R which had been new as West Riding 38 in 1978.
Keeping with the theme of very smart blue & red lorries, you don't get any smarter than this Foden S21 two-stroke powered 8x4 with Cravens Homalloy tipping body.
BRR549C is seen here at Cromford Steam Rally on its first outing with owner John Wright after being magnificently restored by Steve Mayle.
LMS Sutton Junction Station remains - looking east - on 26th August 1989 - The station had closed in 1964! The signal box was located on the other side of the level crossing - no traces now remain of the Midland Railway Station. The Robin Hood Line 'Sutton Parkway' station was built much further east.
Honeysuckle Berries. (Woodbine) (Lonicera periclymenum)
Kings Mill Reservoir, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Photographed on Kirkby Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield on 05-022-12, is this rainbow 3 trentbarton on the 3B service to Nottingham, Optare Excel Y243 DRC, the driver (Colin) gave me a lovely smile :-)
37884 passes Kingsmill Reservoir while working 5Q57, Worksop - Derby Litchurch Lane with 710374 & 37611 on the rear 16/03/23
Kings Mill Hospital from Kings Mill Reservoir. King's Mill was opened as a military hospital in 1942, as the 30th General Hospital of California – the first American wartime hospital in Britain. The hospital housed 400 injured American personnel as well as German prisoners of war.
During the summer of 1963, 4F 0-6-0 no. 44191 eases away from Sutton Colliery Junction (Notts.) with a loaded train of unfitted coal wagons from either Sutton or Silverhill Collery. The train is about to pass through the remains of the station at Whiteborough and will proceed for only a short distance beyond before coming to a halt. This stop will allow the wagon brakes to be pinned down for the steep descent to the yard at Westhouses.
The locomotive, no. 44191, was built at the former Caledonian Railway works at St. Rollox in 1925. It was already based at Westhouses loco shed when British Railways came into being in 1948 and it remained there until withdrawn from service in August 1964.
The location here is now much changed. The road overbridge (on which I am standing) remains in position but the track has now been removed and has been replaced by a footpath and cycleway. An access from the road is now in position to the left of the photograph.
The park is mainly comprised of grassed areas with areas of woodland and avenues of trees. The lake is located in the south east of the park, and is well used by anglers and walkers. Rumbles café is located to the west of the site and is located close to the play areas, a skate park, ball court and outdoor gym. The site also has bowling and tennis clubs.
The Lawn Pleasure Grounds encompass the grounds of the former Sutton Hall, built as the residence of Samuel Unwin, a merchant hosier, and the land associated with his nearby Cotton Spinning Mill and Mill Lake. Sutton Hall and most of the Mill complex no longer exist, but the Mill ruins and adjacent lake form the focal feature of the park today.
Still sporting East Yorkshire colours and fleetnumber is this Volvo Olympian Alexander Royale N587 BRH pictured in Sutton in Ashfield on 05-06-13.
For a while in the 1990s, Delta provided competition to Trent in the area around Sutton-in-Ashfield and Hucknall. Seen leaving Sutton Bus Station, D585 NDA is an Iveco Daily 49.10 with Robin Hood bodywork, new in 1986 as West Midlands Travel 585. Delta expanded rapidly with the support of West Midlands Travel but collapsed when the plug was pulled.
The Kings Mill Reservoir is located between the towns of Mansfield and Sutton-in-Ashfield, sandwiched between the A38 and A617. The site covers 31.8ha and includes a lake, marshy reed bed, grassland and has the River Maun running through it. Its purpose was to provide sufficient head of water to power a succession of working mills along the river. At the northern end of the reservoir you will discover England's oldest railway viaduct and beyond this you'll find a smaller body of water, the Hermitage nature reserve locally known as 'Dead Man's Valley' and is accessed by crossing the viaduct, the entrance is then on the right.
37219 approaching the footbridge at Kingsmill Reservoir with the 3Z11, High Marnham Test Track - Derby R.T.C 5/8/19
The park is mainly comprised of grassed areas with areas of woodland and avenues of trees. The lake is located in the south east of the park, and is well used by anglers and walkers. Rumbles café is located to the west of the site and is located close to the play areas, a skate park, ball court and outdoor gym. The site also has bowling and tennis clubs.
The Lawn Pleasure Grounds encompass the grounds of the former Sutton Hall, built as the residence of Samuel Unwin, a merchant hosier, and the land associated with his nearby Cotton Spinning Mill and Mill Lake. Sutton Hall and most of the Mill complex no longer exist, but the Mill ruins and adjacent lake form the focal feature of the park today.