Eastwood Hall
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Eastwood Hall
Image: © Trevor Rickard Taken: 18 Jun 2011
Smart hotel and conference centre just off Mansfield Road. Strangely, the web site omits the interesting history of this building - http://www.eastwoodhallnottingham.co.uk/ . The house was built in 1810 for the Plumptree family who owned the Plumptree Colliery just to the north. It was purchased by George Walker around 1830 as the family home. The Barber & Walker company by then owned and ran many collieries in the Eastwood area. The house was eventually acquired by the Barber & Walker company in 1916 and converted to their head office. The business partnership between the Barber and Walker families started in 1787 and it remained strong until the 1947 nationalisation of the coal industry. The new National Coal Board acquired the hall as their area office and it later became their headquarters. Planning for the national miners' strike of the 1980s took place here. The last coal mine in the area closed in 1985.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.02441
Longitude
-1.310124