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Shirebrook is a town in the
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in
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, England. Close to the boundaries with the districts of
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and Bassetlaw of
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and
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. The town is served by
Shirebrook railway station Shirebrook railway station serves the town of Shirebrook in Derbyshire, England. The station is on the Robin Hood Line, 21½ miles (35 km) north of Nottingham towards Worksop. History The line and the station were built by the Mid ...
, on the
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.


Economy


History

According to David Mills in ''A Dictionary of British Place-Names'', the area was first named in records in 1202 written in Old English as Scirebroc. This can be interpreted as Boundary or Bright Brook. Prior to the intense and swift development of the Colliery at the turn of the 20th century, Shirebrook, even as late as 1872 it was little more than a
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of the larger
Pleasley Pleasley is a village and civil parish with parts in both Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. It lies between Chesterfield and Mansfield, south east of Bolsover, Derbyshire, England and north west of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. The River Meden, w ...
. Wilsons' Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870–72 describes "SHIREBROOK, a chapelry in Pleaseley parish, Derby; 3¾ miles NNW of Mansfield r. station. It was constituted in 1849, and it has a post-office under Mansfield. Pop., 342. Houses, 70. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £90.* Patron, the Rector of Pleaseley. The church was built in 1843." Shirebrook Colliery was sunk in 1896–1897 by the Shirebrook Coal and Iron company on land owned by the
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, Joseph Paget (a Pleasley Mills partner and the builder of Stuffynwood Hall), and the Nicholson and Fowler farming families. Professor
Arnold Lupton Arnold Lupton (11 September 1846 – 23 May 1930) was a British Liberal Party Member of Parliament, academic, anti-vaccinationist, mining engineer and a managing director (collieries). He was jailed for pacifist activity during the First ...
of
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was the mining engineer. The sinking of two shafts, plus a pumping shaft, was based on independent surveys by Henry Hall and Matthew Fisher, managers of working collieries. The shafts, wide, met the 'Top Hard' seam at . By 1897, a 'model village' was already being built close to the colliery to house workers. ''The Derbyshire Times'' of 30 July 1897 reported that "About half a mile away a model village is springing up, some 150 houses have already been erected and about 420 are to be built." Shirebrook Colliery operated in the town until April 1993. It had previously been linked underground to nearby
Pleasley Colliery Pleasley Colliery is a former English coal mine. It is located to the north-west of Pleasley village, which sits above the north bank of the River Meden on the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire border. It lies 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Man ...
. The workforce was about evenly split during the strike of 1984–85, leading to deep community divisions between strikers and workers, and briefly earned the nickname "the Belfast of England". In addition to two ongoing fabrication-engineering businesses at nearby Langwith, Shirebrook has a large furniture retailer.


Regeneration

The 93-acre former Shirebrook Colliery site was reclaimed for development at a cost of £24million, funded by
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and administered by
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.''Chad'' Nottinghamshire local newspaper, 5 May 2004. Retrieved 30 November 2017


Sports Direct hub

Re-titled as Brook Park, half of the entire business park designated as Zone 1 was allocated to
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after a planning application to Bolsover District Council in 2004 for four giant warehouses totalling 111,000 square metres, with a training facility,
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and a retail store. Sports Direct amongst its 3,000 workers employs large number of people who decided to migrate to Shirebrook from eastern states of European Union The situation caused certain group of locals feel intimidated, reportedly by gatherings in the town square and other open public places, involving drinking and other anti-social behaviour.
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and Derbyshire Police therefore introduced in late 2015 a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO), upgraded from the previous Direct Public Policing Orders (DPPOs), banning consumption of alcohol with further restrictions in public spaces. Many workers are indirectly employed by agencies using
zero-hour contract A zero-hour contract is a type of employment contract between an employer and an employee whereby the employer is not obliged to provide any minimum number of working hours to the employee. The term 'zero-hour contract' is primarily used in th ...
s, which has attracted media attention for their labour practices and has been referred to as a "gulag". Having declined to appear previously, billionaire owner Mike Ashley was summoned to appear at
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before June 2016 to answer questions from a select committee of MPs. Ashley responded in March 2016 by publicly refusing the summons, further declaring the MPs to be "a joke". Ashley eventually appeared before Parliament on 7 June 2016. Outstanding areas of concern were mentioned, including zero-hour contracts, lower than minimum-wage payments, workers' body searches, intrusive control of workers' personal habits, lateness penalties and sexual harassment. Ashley gave an undertaking to investigate and make changes, but suggested a timeframe of three months or greater may be required. Ashley was further criticised in 2017 by Labour Party leader
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for breaking his word by failing to enforce the withdrawal of widespread zero-hour contracts that he had agreed to in 2016. Corbyn's request for the UK
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to condemn Ashley's failure to end the practice was reported in the press as being "sidestepped" by
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. A Polish couple who supplied workers to Sports Direct were accused of
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in 2016. They absconded before their scheduled trial appearance at
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in July 2017 and were believed by Police to be in Canada, despite having their Polish passports seized.


Community building

In December 2017, the government through their
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, Lord Bourne, announced a £1.26 million aid-package from the ''Controlling Migration Fund'', after a bid from local networking groups Bolsover Partnership and Shirebrook Forward NG20 due to the large influx of Eastern European workers. The money is a two-year investment intended to improve access to public services, stage community events, improve the shopping and Market Square area and ease pressures on housing, schooling and health services resulting from recent migration. The project named ''Building Resilience'' will see investment into seven core areas: *Community resilience *Market Square Enlivenment *Migrant community access *Improve access and quality of private sector housing *Social Norms and UK Laws *Additional GP resources *Healthy Workforce Programme Shirebrook Town Hall was constructed as a new build on the site of a former storage unit on the market square. It opened in 2019 as a 'one stop shop' with customer contact centre and payment counter at ground floor level, and offices for Town Council and Bolsover District business above.


Housing

As part of the government's Levelling Up initiative, a plan to create affordable homes on part of the former colliery site has seen the ''First Homes '' pilot scheme established to allow local first-time buyers and key workers to buy new builds at a 30% discount of the market price.


Education

Shirebrook Academy Shirebrook Academy (formerly Shirebrook School) is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Shirebrook in the county of Derbyshire, and is part of the Aston Community Education Trust. Previously a community school ad ...
on Common Lane is the local secondary school for pupils aged 11–16. Shirebrook also has many primary schools and nurseries such as: * Park Infant & Nursery Schools * Park Junior School * Stubbin Wood Special School * Brookfield Primary School * Model Village Primary School


Railway

Shirebrook once had three
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s. The last remaining station was on the
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(later part of the LMS) route from
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to
Worksop Worksop ( ) is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located east-south-east of Sheffield, close to Nottinghamshire's borders with South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, on the River Ryton and not far from the nor ...
via
Mansfield Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market tow ...
, and was originally known as Shirebrook West, despite being on the eastern edge of the town. The route lost its passenger services in October 1964, leaving Shirebrook without a station, but the line remained open as a goods route. On the site of the goods yard a diesel locomotive fuelling depot was opened in the mid-1960s. The station was re-opened in 1998 as
Shirebrook railway station Shirebrook railway station serves the town of Shirebrook in Derbyshire, England. The station is on the Robin Hood Line, 21½ miles (35 km) north of Nottingham towards Worksop. History The line and the station were built by the Mid ...
for the new
Robin Hood Line The Robin Hood Line is a railway line running from Nottingham to Worksop, Nottinghamshire, in the United Kingdom. The stations between Shirebrook and Whitwell (inclusive) are in Derbyshire. Passenger services are operated by East Midlands Rai ...
services from Nottingham to Worksop via Mansfield. A wagon repair and manufacturing business have a rail link with the main line. Shirebrook North station (originally known as "Langwith Junction", until renamed in June 1924), was opened by the
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(later part of the
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and subsequently the
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) in March 1897 and closed in September 1955. By then only one of the four routes converging on it was left- that to
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: the Great Northern Railway's "Leen Valley Extension" line to
Pleasley Pleasley is a village and civil parish with parts in both Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. It lies between Chesterfield and Mansfield, south east of Bolsover, Derbyshire, England and north west of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. The River Meden, w ...
and
Sutton-in-Ashfield Sutton-in-Ashfield is a market town in Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of 48,527 in 2019. It is the largest town in the district of Ashfield, four miles west of Mansfield, two miles from the Derbyshire border and 12 miles nort ...
had closed in September 1931; the LD&ECR line to Beighton via
Clowne Clowne is a village and civil parish in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire, England. The population at the 2001 Census was 7,447 increasing to 7,590 (and including Harlesthorpe) at the 2011 Census. It forms part of the Bolsover constituency. ...
in September 1939, and that to
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via
Bolsover Bolsover is a market town and the administrative centre of the Bolsover (borough), Bolsover District, Derbyshire, England. It is from London, from Sheffield, from Nottingham and from Derby, Derbyshire, Derby. It is the main town in the Bols ...
in December 1951, due to the unsafe condition of
Bolsover Tunnel Bolsover Tunnel is a disused and infilled twin-track railway tunnel between Carr Vale and Scarcliffe in Derbyshire, England. At it was the 18th longest railway tunnel in Britain prior to its closure in 1951. History The tunnel was opened by ...
. The filling in of the tunnel began on 10 October 1966, and used waste from Bolsover Colliery. The mouth of the old tunnel can be found on the southern edge of Scarcliffe, emerging just south of Ridgdale Road, Bolsover. Shirebrook South station was on the Great Northern Railway's "Leen Valley Extension" line mentioned above, opened in November 1901 and closed in September 1931.


Sport

The town's football club Shirebrook Town play in the First Division of the
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, and are based at Langwith Road. Before the current club was formed, Shirebrook Miners Welfare F.C. was the senior team in the area, competing in the FA Cup on occasion.


Notable people

*
Mason Bennett Mason Kane Bennett (born 15 July 1996) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for League One club Burton Albion. He has also represented England Youth at U-16 and U-17 Level. He holds the record as Derby County's younges ...
, footballer, born in nearby Langwith and attended school in Shirebrook *
John Hurt Sir John Vincent Hurt (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor whose career spanned over five decades. Hurt was regarded as one of Britain's finest actors. Director David Lynch described him as "simply the greatest actor in t ...
, actor, born in nearby
Chesterfield Chesterfield may refer to: Places Canada * Rural Municipality of Chesterfield No. 261, Saskatchewan * Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut United Kingdom * Chesterfield, Derbyshire, a market town in England ** Chesterfield (UK Parliament constitue ...
and lived in Shirebrook as a child *
Jason Statham Jason Statham (; born 26 July 1967) is an English actor. He is known for portraying characters in various action-thriller films who are typically tough, hardboiled, gritty, or violent. Statham began practising Chinese martial arts, kickboxing ...
, actor, born in Shirebrook *
Colin Tarrant Colin Tarrant (14 June 1952 – 26 January 2012) was an English actor best known for playing Inspector Andrew Monroe in ITV's ''The Bill'' between 1990 and 2002. Early life and career Tarrant was born in 1952 in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, and stud ...
, actor, born in ShirebrookBill Legend Colin Tarrant Suicide Shock"
''
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'', 29 January 2012
* Ray Wilson, footballer, born in Shirebrook


See also

* Listed buildings in Shirebrook


References


External links


Local information



Fire Station

Shirebrook Town Council

Shirebrook Miners Welfare Unison Band

Photos of Shirebrook

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