A ‘not a bus stop’ in Calverton - 11 Sep 2018 (DSCF4554)

Tuesday 11 September 2018 (1246) – A ‘not a bus stop’ in Calverton. Trent Barton’s regular ‘Calverton Connection’ service along this road operates as an anti-clockwise circular and so buses pick-up on the opposite side of the road.

In the background is a historical remnant of Calverton’s past in the form of a coal truck once used at Calverton Colliery. Until the 1930s Calverton was a small forest village with an economy based on agriculture. In 1937 the first shaft of what would become Calverton Colliery was sunk but it was in the early 1950s that the colliery opened on a much larger scale bringing an expansion of the population as miners and their families came to live in newly built homes. The mine closed in 1999.