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Engine Lane, NOTTINGHAM, NG16 3RP

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

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 .

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

Moorgreen Colliery was established in 1865 and was owned by the Barber and Walker families. It was the last in the area to close in 1985 and since the closure, an industrial site has grown up on the site.

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

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 serves an industrial estate based on the former Moorgreen Colliery and the associated National Coal Board Central Workshops. Despite the quality of the road, it is only classified as a byway open to all traffic http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5968959.

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.

Caunton Engineering are a major supplier of steel sections for the construction industry.