Scott led 11 ramblers on a 7 mile walk beginning at Brinsley
Headstocks on the site of the old Brinsley coal mine. The walk followed the
track of the old mineral railway line north to New Brinsley and Bagthorpe,
before turning west to Westwood and then south through the Erewash Meadows
Nature Reserve and back to the start.
The weather was hot and humid but a light shower fell at the
lunch break. A few walkers enjoyed a pint at the finish in the nearby Brinsley
Lodge Inn.
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| Scott briefs the troops |
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| Brinsley Colliery was worked from 1872 until 1934, and was then used for access to Moorgreen and Pye Hill pits until 1970, when the surface buildings were demolished. The headstocks were taken to a mining museum, but returned to Brinsley in 1991, where they were re-erected on their present site. |
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| The disused mineral railway |
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| Tree carving next to Brinsley Headstocks depicting 700 years of coal mining in the Eastwood district |
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| Lunch |
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| River Erewash |
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| Brinsley Lodge Inn |
