Some remain similar to the way they look today, while others have long since been demolished or revamped. Goods and timetabled passenger services ceased on 3 January 1956, though Summer weekend excursion traffic to Scarborough, Cleethorpes, Skegness and Mablethorpe continued until 1962. The second picture was taken from the other side of the railway, looking further right, towards the church, with the land sloping down from the railway and then steeply up where cows are grazing in the Church Field. To the right of the church you can see the roof of the Rectory (now a private house) and on the skyline to the left are some of the houses on Church Hill. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Nottingham on 95.5 FM, Capital East Midlands on 96.5 FM and community based station Mansfield 103.2 FM which broadcast from Mansfield. [18]

The churchyard was closed for new burials in 1883 and future burials would be held in the public Cemetery. Ashes could still be interred in the old churchyard. Most passenger services plied between Nottingham Victoria and Mansfield Central, with some extending to Edwinstowe [5] [6] and Ollerton. [7] In the far distance is St Wilfrid's Church, with some of the roofs on Church Street also visible on the skyline. Mining Heritage, A Summit Circular, https://miningheritage.co.uk/summit-circular-a-look-into-kirkby-in-ashfields-industrial-past/ Lund, Brian (1999) [1991]. Nottinghamshire Railway Stations on old picture postcards. Keyworth, Nottingham: Reflections of a Bygone Age. ISBN 0 946245 36 3.

Mining Heritage, Kirkby ‘Summit’ Colliery: 50th anniversary of closure, https://miningheritage.co.uk/kirkby-summit-colliery-50th-anniversary-of-closure/ G G Bonser, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, vol XLIII (1939) retrieved 3rd April 2023 Kirkby boozers feature in a gallery of his images shared with the ECHO, taken between 1991 and 2014. This is when the new Kirkby Leisure Centre will open Nottinghamshire Live, 18 November 2021. Retrieved 9 May, 2022 A new indoor market – named Moor Market – was created in 2021 by internally joining adjacent small retail shops into a larger space. [9] [10] [11]

The Rev. Sir Richard Kaye, 6th Baronet FRS. Rector of Kirkby in Ashfield from 1765 to 1809 and Dean of Lincoln. Kaye employed Samuel Hieronymous Grimm to make a series of drawings of life in Ashfield in the late 18th century. Swimming pool at new Kirkby Leisure Centre filled with water for first time Chad, 22 February 2022. Retrieved 9 May, 2022This 1968 pictures was taken from a bit further down the path (the church appears closer to the poplar trees). The signal and the signal box (which was next to the telephone pole) had both gone. The grass in the foreground obviously hadn't been mowed for some while, and was turning to scrub. The telephone pole and the hoardings have long gone, as has the house on the right. I believe the row of shops beyond the telephone pole are still standing, but not shops any more. However, the tree is still there (when I last looked) though now well over 50 years older.

John Wakefield said: “Pubs are the centre of communities, alongside the church - if you don’t go to one, you probably go to the other. They’re an integral part of social life, and I like the idea of them for that reason. I rather like a real ale too.The next was from the same place, but looking more to the west. The trees on the skyline might be the conifers around the detached graveyard. Booth, Chris (December 2011). Gellatly, Bob (ed.). "Signalling on the Mansfield Railway-Part 1". Forward. North Anston, Sheffield: Bob Gellatly for the Great Central Railway Society. 170. ISSN 0141-4488. Kirkby-in-Ashfield was once an important centre of coal mining and railways in west Nottinghamshire, with three active coal mines and several railway junctions. [4] The former Mansfield and Pinxton Railway from the Erewash Valley Line was joined here by the later Midland Railway line from Nottingham. The Great Central Railway main line passed to the south-west side of the town and had a double junction with the Great Northern Railway Leen Valley Extension line to Langwith Junction and the Mansfield Railway to Clipstone.