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Orchard Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG16 2LN

Pretty hanging baskets, Italian and Chinese restaurants and a bright blue sky on a June morning.

The card on the table advertises key cutting, being practised on an antique machine by the red-coated tailor's dummy. The Kimberley:now website entry for Plumb's reveals that “Although small, we carry a huge selection of hardware, ironmongery, pet supplies, key cutting and sharpening services. Probably the only shop in Kimberley that can be fully functioning in a power cut with a Victorian till and paraffin lamp.”

Beer is no longer brewed in Kimberley, alas, but Nottingham Brewery Co provides a local ale at this pub - not far from Image] as it happens. (The English teacher in me has restored the apostrophe missing from the sign.)

Closed for renovation.

Looking towards the corner of James Street while waiting for the nine o'clock bus to Nottingham.

The Gate Inn on Main Street. England had just qualified for the knock-out stages of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Now houses, this building is the same style as the others on the Great Northern Railway Derbyshire Extension line built in the 1870s, principally to carry coal. Passenger services were from the Pinxton branch and Derby Friargate to Nottingham (originally London Road and later Victoria). The Pinxton line closed in January 1963, and as a sixth-former I was on the last train from Friargate to the Vic on 7 September 1964. Other Derbyshire Lines stations: Image] Image] Image] Image] Image]

Opened in 1876 as Kimberley by the Great Northern Railway on the line from Nottingham to Derby Friargate, this station closed in 1964. It had been renamed Kimberley East in 1955. View north east over the former level crossing towards Basford North and Nottingham.

The cars are parked in what was the station forecourt. The platforms were on the other side of the building. The view is from the footbridge - for a ground-level view see Image Now houses, Kimberley is the same style as the other stations on the Great Northern Railway Derbyshire Extension line built in the 1870s, principally to carry coal. Passenger services were from the Pinxton branch and Derby Friargate to Nottingham (originally London Road and later Victoria). The Pinxton line closed in January 1963, and as a sixth-former I was on the last train from Friargate to the Vic on 7 September 1964. Other Derbyshire Lines stations: Image] Image] Image] Image] Image]