I recall as a child watching the diggers from my grandparents back bedroom window on Alfreton Road. Then when it was opened the Sunday Afternoon trip to Leicester Forest East services to the posh wastress service restaurant on the bridge.
@@Jonnyweareten www.google.com/maps/place/Pinxton,+Nottingham/@53.0928021,-1.3060932,180a,35y,9.64h/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x48799483abecdf63:0x9b61b1d0c31411c3!8m2!3d53.091157!4d-1.322114 but I don't see the old cottage
Some of the so called wide Boys who contracted for the work did low believing there was very much coal at relatively shallow depth which the NCB would pay them a good price for. However all they found was a number of empty Bell shaped cavities form wheres the Old Bell Pit miners and mined the coal many years earlier.