Cotgrave 3

Cotgrave has five different signs on roads into the village.
Cotgrave country park, on the site of Cotgrave colliery which opened in 1964 and employed up to 2,000 miners when it was in full production, but closed in 1993.
The sign shows the lake in the country park. The new housing it the background is built on the site of the colliery buildings

for the other signs see
https://365project.org/oldjosh/additional/2017-04-07
https://365project.org/oldjosh/additional/2020-02-23

villages signs can be found at
https://365project.org/oldjosh/additional/2017-04
https://365project.org/oldjosh/additional/2018-05
http://365project.org/oldjosh/additional/2019-01-01

[John Cowan]

Remember it being the scene of rather violent protests during the 1984-85 Miners strike.

[Margaret Snell]

@motorsports Yes John a lot of mines in the Nottinghamshire coalfield remained open including Cotgrave, There was a conflict between flying pickets and the police, as they tried to prevent the miners getting to work.