A group of volunteers working on the alongside the Cromford Canal on the Pinxton Wharf Restoration Project which ran in the 1980's-1990's. Coal was mined on a small scale in Pinxton since Tudor times. With the arrival of a branch of the Cromford Canal in the 1790's a localised industrial revolution began. Within a decade or so of the canal's arrival several deep coal pits, four lime kilns and a china works were in operation near to the Wharf. The wharf was the terminus for the canal, which was built to link the collieries to the river Trent, and is very important to the area's heritage.