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Pinxton Village and war memorial
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Credit
ImageDate
early 20th century ?
Location
Pinxton
Town
Pinxton
About this image
Looking across Pinxton Village from the churchyard, showing the War Memorial in the foreground. The Pinxton Colliery can be seen in the background. 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.
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