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Model Village, WORKSOP, S80 4BP

As at new Bolsover, the houses were built with their backs to the street. There was a tramway that delivered coal to the houses and took away 'night soil' from the ash privies.

Built in 1896 to house workers at Creswell Colliery, the village consists of a double ring of houses, separated by a service road, around a large green in the form of an extended octagon. The houses are built in a variety of different designs. After a period of decline from the 1980s, the village has been turned round with the help of an active residents' Association and a large Heritage Lottery Fund award. The bench in the foreground commemorates the Creswell Colliery Disaster of 1950 and memorialises one of the victims who lived in the Village.

View from the south east. The large building at the left is the miners' welfare building or Club House.

To the memory of John William Doxey, resident of Creswell Model Village, a victim of the Creswell Colliery disaster in 1950 which claimed 80 lives.

This road forms a circuit around the Model Village; the houses back onto it, and front onto either a footpath around the outside or the large green in the centre.

Linking the two long sides of the service road, thereby dividing the green in two. This road continues to Elmton Road and the outside world.

Creswell Model Village is an arts and crafts style model village. The pit village was built in 1895 by the Bolsover Colliery Company to designs by architect Percy B. Houfton for the workers of Creswell Colliery on land leased from the Welbeck Estate. Influenced by garden village principles, it provided the workers with modern facilities; it had a tramway to deliver coal to the houses. Designed around a large oval village green with an access road through the centre, the houses are of varying styles. The Model as it is known, has been refurbished. (source Wikipedia)

Perhaps one of the better examples of a former Miners Welfare building. The stone plaque above the door on the right acclaims "Publ(i)c Hal(l) Entranc(e)" The final 'l' in Hall and the final 'e' in Entrance are both smaller letters inside the previous letter. The 'i' in Public is also shortened to reduce the spacing. Difficult to tell if this was planned or an oversight when marking out for carving.

The tree in the foreground is a Rowan. These were perhaps replacements for trees planted over a hundred years ago.