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Warsop Vale Local History Society - Home
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We did have an online guest book as regular visitors to this site will know. Unfortunatly because of SPAM the guest book became virtually unusable and we have had to take it off line. You can still send your messages through by email to comment(at)warsopvale.org. Replace the (at) with the usual @) but it will take a little while to be displayed. I have lived in the USA for the past thirty years but today I visited my parents and decided to take a nostalgic drive around my old hunting ground. Very sad...
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Warsop Vale Local History Society - Members
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Our membership is open to anyone and we especially welcome anyone who has lived or worked in the area either past or present. Membership of our society will mean you will recieve our monthly newsletter either by post or through this website, but more importantly perhaps it will mean you will help research and record the history of this small village, the community who lived here and the way of life that has now all but disappeared. This site is designed and hosted by Tenmail.
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Warsop Vale Local History Society - Home
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See our publications page for details of our third book :-. Past Memories of Warsop Vale and Warsop Main Colliery, now on sale. A small typical former mining village originally of some 220 terraced houses, is located in northern part of Nottinghamshire. Close to the Derbyshire border and approximately 5 miles north of Mansfield. The colliery which came into production in 1898 and was proved to be a very productive enterprise throughout its life, has now unfortunately closed and the site reclaimed.
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Warsop Vale Local History Society - Newsletter
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We publish a monthly newsletter which is available to members. Once a member you will be issued a username and password to access and down load the newsletter in PDF format. Please be aware the files below have not been created with downloading in mind so they are quite large. If you don't have a high speed connection or patience please send an email using the link at the top of this page to have a paper copy posted to you. No 167 Jan 15. No 168 Feb 15. No 169 Mar 15. No 170 Apr 15. No 171 May 15. No 121...
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Warsop Vale Local History Society - Events
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Meetings are held on the first Thursday of every month, at 7 pm at the “Swing” (Vale Hotel), Warsop Vale. The evening includes, a talk by a guest speaker, a raffle and lively discussion with other members. Thursday 2nd June 2016. Film of Society Members Activities. Thursday 7th July 2016. Thursday 4th August 2016. Thursday 1st September 2016. WW1’s Woodbine Willy. Thursday 6th October 2016. Thursday 3rd November 2016. Hawaiian Islands Revisited Part II. Everyone Welcome-Please Come Along.
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Warsop Vale History Society - Warsop Vale Mining Village
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Warsop Vale Mining Village. Prior to the sinking the shafts of Warsop Main Colliery, around 1896, Staveley Coal and Iron Company built, using local limestone, a terrace of cottages known as the Rock Cottages, to house the engineers who sunk the shafts and developed the mine. These houses were built by a firm from the Staveley area called Moore’s built the houses in the village proper at a cost £40 per house, hence the title of the £40 house. The company was also a very strong advocate of fostering social...
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Warsop Vale Local History Society - Publications
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The History Society has now produced three books about the area and you can find a brief review of each below. All three books are now available and details on how to get any or all of them is shown below:-. Book 1 and Book 2 each costs £10 and Book 3 costs £15 and can be obtained from:-. Warsop Vale Local History Society,. 1 Leeming Close,. Telephone Number 01623 842566. All books purchased which need to be posted will be subject to an additional charge for post and packaging at cost. Members of the War...
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Warsop Vale Local History Society - The Area
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The market towns of Mansfield, Chesterfield with its Crooked Spire Church, Worksop the location of the NT Mr Straws House and Newark with its Castle are easily accessible and afford good rail links to all parts of the UK. Adjacent to the village itself are very pleasant walks to Sookholme with its medieval church, or through Williamwood to Langwith, Langwith Cotton Mill and Cuckney or alternatively over the fields to the Hills and Holes and the river Meden. This site is designed and hosted by Tenmail.
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Warsop Vale Local History Society - Gallery 1
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Index to Picture Galleries. Our new galleries are now online click on the links below. Each of these galleries opens in a seperate browser window. Close the window to return to this index. Conditiions in the Mining Industry up to the Middle of the 20th Century. Miners Typical Home Life in the Early Part of the 20th Century. Warsop Main Colliery From Opening To Closure (1889-1989). Warsop Main 1889-1989 Pt1. Warsop Main 1889-1989 Pt2. Warsop Main 1889-1989 Pt3. Warsop Vale Gas Powered Generation Plant.
