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Beeston Close, NOTTINGHAM, NG6 8XG

View north-west from the colliery car park. This is the modern end of the village, further west are some well-appointed Victorian miners terraces.

View over Bestwood Village. The green field to the left was the waste of the old Colliery, the preserved winding house of which can be seen adjacent. The village was essentially a planned village built when the colliery was developed.

Nineteenth century colliery housing on the left,

The colliery company, which built these houses in the years after the sinking of the pit in 1872, was owned by the local landowner, the Duke of St Albans. These are rather grander houses than those on Park Road.

The farm is now a riding school. The housing estate is the most recently developed part of Bestwood Village and post-dates the closure of the colliery. The village shows a clear chronology of development from the time when it was first started as a mining village in the 1870s

This turning circle would have been used by buses taking miners to and from the erstwhile colliery (out of frame to the right), which now forms part of Bestwood Country Park. Now, it merely enables buses to serve the south eastern part of the village by doing a double run along Park Road from Moor Road. The narrow lane off the turning circle (centre) provides access to a set of domestic garages. The green panel fence hides a new housing development, which the developers seem keen to avoid being associated with what should be a very convenient bus stop for its residents.

Houses built by the Bestwood Coal & Iron Company in the years following the sinking of Bestwood Colliery in 1872. The houses with porches and dormers are rather grander than the ones on Park Road.

This is the top of the Broad Valley Drive estate

This car park entrance provides access from Park Road, on the south eastern corner of Bestwood village, to a car park serving Bestwood Country Park. The entrance to Bestwood colliery was here: the colliery winding house, headgear and some other buildings have been preserved (see other pictures in this square), while some of the slagheaps have been landscaped and form part of the country park. The railway wheelsets behind the fence (centre) appear to be from an outside framed 350hp diesel shunter (BR class 08 or one of its LMS designed ancestors).

Sun setting behind the winding house