Lund, Brian (1999) [1991]. Nottinghamshire Railway Stations on old picture postcards. Keyworth, Nottingham: Reflections of a Bygone Age. ISBN 0 946245 36 3. This 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.

Mining Heritage, A Summit Circular, https://miningheritage.co.uk/summit-circular-a-look-into-kirkby-in-ashfields-industrial-past/Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) Full Freeview transmitter". UK Free TV. 1 May 2004 . Retrieved 20 October 2023. The station is in a cutting, and while the station was operational the banks either side were full of bushes and flowers. Thanks to the station master, Mr Brownlow, who kept the gardens looking immaculate – all the more remarkable because he had lost one arm. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1012926)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 14 November 2013. Jon TOPPING has a photograph of St. Wilfrid's statue overlooking the church entrance on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2013.

This view (possibly taken from the '44 steps' shows the colliery in the distance behind a row of parked wagons The station was opened in 1917 by the Mansfield Railway along with Mansfield Central and Sutton-in-Ashfield Central. The line, including its stations, was worked by the Great Central Railway and became part of the LNER in 1923 and subsequently British Railways in 1948. Mining Heritage, Kirkby ‘Summit’ Colliery: 50th anniversary of closure, https://miningheritage.co.uk/kirkby-summit-colliery-50th-anniversary-of-closure/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. 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. Tom Naylor - English footballer, currently playing for Portsmouth FC. Formerly of Mansfield Town, Derby County, and Burton Albion.