If you know and love the works of D.H. Lawrence you can see a slice of industrial Nottinghamshire described in novels like Sons and Lovers around Mansfield.
A brief drive west is the Pleasley Colliery, which operated up to 1983 and since then has been cleaned up and conserved as a museum.
The Victorian engine house, chimney stack and headstocks are a part of the region’s legacy that has almost disappeared.
