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Stockwell Gate, MANSFIELD, NG18 1JY

On Stockwell Gate. Date stone shows 1888.

Dated 1888 above the bay window, built originally as the Blue Boar public house, Listed Grade II. The pub closed in 1988 and was then converted to retail/business use.

A pair of late 18th century houses, c.1770, now converted to retail/business use, Listed Grade II.

Town house, c.1800, later converted to retail/business use, Listed Grade II.

A pair of small early 19th century houses, now converted to retail use, surviving among the more modern development of Stockwell Gate. Listed Grade II.

As seen from Café Nova (Beales Department Store).

This building on Queen Street currently houses the Cooperative Bank and Beales Department Store. The main entrances to Beales are on the neighbouring Stockwell Gate. A brief history of the Mansfield Co-operative Society follows below. 1864: The Mansfield Co-operative Society is formed. 1914: By this date the Co-op was operated by the Mansfield & Sutton Co-operative, according to the war memorial plaque now sited in the Queen Street premises. 1918: The store on Stockwell Gate was destroyed in a fire. 1922: The new and enlarged Mansfield & Sutton Co-operative store, Stockwell Gate, opens on the site of that destroyed by fire in 1918. 1938: The Queen Street building was officially opened. 1970: The Co-operative Societies of Mansfield & Sutton, Pleasley, Pleasley Hill, and Clowne, were merged. 1983: The Greater Nottingham and the Mansfield and Worksop Co-operative Societies agreed to merge. 1984: A Co-op Superstore was opened on the site of the old Portland Wharf, Station Street. 2006: The Greater Nottingham Coop transferred its department store businesses (including the one in Mansfield) to the Anglia Co-operative Society and the stores were rebranded as "Westgate" (not to be confused with the nearby street name in Mansfield). 2011: The Anglia Society sold the business of its 19 Westgate Department Stores, including the one in Mansfield, to Beales. Most of the above information is provided at http://www.ourmansfieldandarea.org.uk/page_id__501_path__0p2p19p.aspx , but other information has been provided by http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27083 , http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NCCW001831&pos=9&action=zoom&id=50810 , http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NCCW002413&pos=4&action=zoom&id=51387 , and http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/co-op-sale-boost-for-historic-outlet-1-3264920 .