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The Bermuda Phoenix Centre is a community hall on Bermuda Road. For more on the history of Bermuda Village and Griff see Image The hall is regularly used for blood donation and a National Health Service blood donation van can be seen parked outside.

Bermuda Village was built in 1893 to house miners working at the new Griff Clara colliery. The village drew its name from the Newdigate family, the local landowners at Arbury Hall, one of whom had recently served as governor of Bermuda.

Bermuda Village was built in 1893 to house miners working at the recently-opened Griff Clara colliery. The village drew its name from the Newdigate family, the local landowners at Arbury Hall, one of whom had recently served as governor of Bermuda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda,_Warwickshire Coal was found very close to the surface at Griff and the nuneatonhistory.com website gives an overview of the many collieries recorded in the area from 1604. Early mines were little more than holes in the ground extended underground around the edges and shored up with planks ('bell pits'), and miners resorted to this method during the General Strike in 1926. Griff New Winnings or Clara Colliery was a modern mine that operated from 1891 to 1955. More recently there were opencast workings; the website reproduces photos of these from 1989. See http://www.nuneatonhistory.com/brickyards-quarries--collieries-extractive-industries.html The Bermuda Business Park occupies the site of the colliery.

But not for vehicular access it seems. Traffic restriction measures in Bermuda Village.

One of the three approach footpaths to Ensors Pool. This one is from Bermuda Road.

This is part of the Centenary Way public footpath.

This pool on the Griff Brook was dug to hold run-off water from the nearby business park and prevent flooding. Bermuda Village nearby was built in 1893 to house miners working at the new Griff Clara colliery. Like Newdigate Colliery in Bedworth, the village drew its name from the local landowners at Arbury Hall, one of whom had recently served as governor of Bermuda. https://web.archive.org/web/20070310154326/http://www.nuneaton-online.org.uk/nuneaton/bermuda.htm

Not the tropical island but an area of Nuneaton which has recently been developed with these three storey houses. Behind the trees to the right is a lake.