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Lamb Close Drive, NOTTINGHAM, NG16 3QT

The building on the level is one of the few remaining from the coal mining industry, originally forming part of the National Coal Board Central Workshops. The roadway serves as a public footpath leading to Lamb Close Lane.

A private road serving a small group of businesses as well as the main Caunton Engineering, it is also a public footpath.

The brick built section was originally part of the National Coal Board Central Workshops.

The lane was originally the southern drive to Lamb Close House. The bridge carried the private railway serving a number of local coal mines, latterly reduced to just Moorgreen Colliery, and now carries an internal roadway of Caunton Engineering. The lane is a public footpath.

This mural faces Engine Lane from the premises of Caunton Engineering, part of the Moorgreen Industrial Park; the building is one of the few that have survived from the old Moorgreen Colliery complex. The mural graphically depicts the change of land use of most of the site, from coal mining to country park, together with quotations from Eastwood's most famous son - D H Lawrence. The trauma of the disappearance of a once great industry on a community such as Eastwood should not be underestimated.

A plaque underneath this mural on one of the original buildings of the former colliery reads "The mural artwork was produced by students of the New College Nottingham Basford Hall in co-operation with Maplebeck Holdings Limited, who have dedicated it to the people of Eastwood. The ceremony was performed by Cllr. Jack Wormall on the 24 September 1999". Two quotations below the pictures are both by D H Lawrence. On the left it reads ".... there was a sort of inner darkness like the gloss of coal in which we moved and had our real being" (1930) and on the right ".... the east was tender with a magenta flush under which the land lay still and rich" (1913). Two contrasting views of the same landscape - the goal on the wall is by local artists unknown!

This has suffered some damage since photographed in 2009 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1586069

Note however the official public footpath stickers showing that there is still a right of way on foot. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5968971 .

At this point Engine Lane passes out of the Moorgreen Industrial Park and into a residential area of Eastwood, which no doubt explains the warning about children playing. A height barrier behind the photographer prevents lorries using this route. At one time a mineral railway passed across the road here, giving access to Moorgreen Colliery; the modern house with the 'for sale' board appears to have been built across its former route.

A hedgerow oak near Coneygrey Farm.