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Carr Vale Road, CHESTERFIELD, S44 6PX

The last of the autumn leaves on a bright morning.

The road passes the park on the left, heading towards the model village of New Bolsover.

An upstairs window view of the road and the New Bolsover Social Club in snowy conditions. My footprints in the front garden were 17 inches deep. Generally there was an even covering of about a foot.

The park in Carr Vale, New Bolsover, under more than a foot of snow. Looking to houses on Villas Road that from part of the model village built for mine workers.

The road climbs the hillside towards the main part of the town which is to the right of the castle at the top.

View eastwards, towards Langwith Junction and Lincoln; ex-GC (LD&EC) Lincoln - Tuxford - Langwith - Chesterfield Market Place line. Station closed 3/12/51. The line from Markham Junction through Bolsover South, Bolsover Tunnel and Scarcliffe to the road bridge 300 yards east of Shirebrook North was lifted within three weeks because of the state of Bolsover Tunnel and Carr Vale Viaduct. Chesterfield Market Place and Arkwright Town stations remained open to goods traffic until 4/3/57 whereafter the stretch from Chesterfield MP to Deepsick Lane, Arkwright was lifted. Date of Markham Junction to Longcourse Lane, Duckmanton closure not known. Longcourse Lane to Deepsick Lane remained open for many years to serve Arkwright Colliery via Duckmanton North and East Junctions. Eventually this was rationalised by relaying track from Duckmanton North Junction south along the GC main line trackbed to a new connection straight into Arkwright Colliery, which promptly gave notice of closure! The photo shows the Bolsover South Station Master's house as a private dwelling in 1963. The station building itself was behind the bush on the extreme right of the photo. The architecture of the building shown is very much of a family with "Railway Cottages" on the main A632 half way between the bottom of Bolsover Hill and Markham Lane End, with the house immediately next to Clowne South station site (near Wilkinsons in the middle of Clowne) and with several buildings in Langwith Junction and Scarcliffe, some of which were never railway property but were built at the same time as the LDECR in the late 1890s. I'm sure there are others remaining along the route.

A residential street, looking up the hill.

Two intense storms in the past few weeks have wrought havoc with this local footpath, one of the ways to the nature reserves. Water poured down Carr Vale Road like a river, and some of it diverted down this path tearing up the surface and leaving a channel 6 to 8 inches deep. Further down (behind the camera) an old brick laid surface has been revealed, and even some of those have been torn up by the force of the water.

A view from our back window. In the foreground is part of a building site for a new housing development in Carr Vale. A bright rainbow shines in front of the rising hillside.

The village was built in the 1890s to house workers of Bolsover Colliery. It is considered to be one of the finest examples of colliery village planning in the country.