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Wharf Chapel
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DCHQ000239
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ImageDate
c 1900-1910 ?
Location
Wharf
Town
Pinxton
About this image
A gathering of children outside the Wharf Chapel in the coal mining village of Pinxton. They may have got together for the annual Sunday School parade. 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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