The Old Hall at Hardwick survives only as a shell, with remnants of its plaster decoration.
When coal was king!
During the 19th century Roman Catholics in Bolsover were served by the Jesuit mission at Spinkhill in Eckington.
There has been a parish church in Bolsover since the early 12th century.
Bolsover colliery was sunk by the Bolsover Colliery Company Ltd in the early 1890s and remained an important part of the coal industry in Derbyshir
A factory making hosiery, underwear and other types of garment was established at Bolsover shortly after the Second World War. Passing from local o
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The Bolsover Colliery Company was established in 1890 and initially sank a colliery to the Deep Hard coal at Bolsover.
The most distinctive feature of farming in modern Bolsover was the creation of an estate of smallholdings intended to give unemployed men and their
The history of education in Bolsover falls into several well-defined phases.
