Mansfield
Mansfield is town located in the north of Nottinghamshire. A former mining powerhouse it remains the largest city in the Nottinghamshire county and forms the foremost town in the Mansfield town government part and character of the Mansfield Urban Area.
The pre-eminence Mansfield is pondering to originate from the river Maun which runs in all respects the community and the surrounding hills of the Maun Valley, the river was historically hardened to carry the agricultural area approximately it which gave rise to the rank Maunsfield, changing in excess of hour to Mansfield. The population of Mansfield (including Pleasley, Forest Borough and parts of Rainworth/Clipstone) as of 2008 is 67,885.
Coal Mining and The Strikes
Formerly a the borough was generally supported past the mining enterprise along with the neighbouring areas of Stanton Hill and Pleasley, Coal mining was the main source of employment in the stretch with a large number of men of working duration being employed by the coal mines. Myriad Mansfieldians of a predetermined age purpose tell the book of finishing school on the Friday and starting down the coal mines on the following Monday.
During the Miners strikes of 1984-1985 coal fund workers in the Nottinghamshire extent were less supportive of the proposed nationalised direct owing in behalf to the safer conditions enjoyed through the coal miners in Nottinghamshire when compared with those of coal dig workers in South Wales. This in fighting and the disputed scarcity of a nationalised ballot caused uncountable miners in the Nottinghamshire area to at working in every nook the thwack with the deposit at Bentink being the only repository to persist in production throughout the strike. This decision to persevere in working stuck discord with mine workers across the UK chief to violent clashes at the sites of pits that chose to remain operating. The coal miners that became disillusioned with the NUM and chose to at working when all is said separated to develop the UDM (Conjunction of Self-governing Mineworkers) which has its Headquaters in Mansfield.
Because of the perceived strikebreaking by Mansfield coal miners the affront “Scab” was over again applied to people in the Mansfield limit, as a remainder things this has thankfully waned however it can restful be heard in football stadiums when the neighbouring Mansfield Borough play, predominantly by the supporters of the county rivals Chesterfield FC. The town of Chesterfield was markedly emotionally sham close to the miners crash and it caused important pressure in the area between Chesterfield and Mansfield. Latest to the Mining pommel the fans of both teams could watch the game in comparable unity and without incident.
Mansfield Bitter
Mansfield was also the current in of
Mansfield Brewery. Built in 1855 on the spot of of former coalfields the brewery was promptly was the largest unregulated brewer in the UK. At the hight of its renown in the 1980s Mansfield Bitter was advertised with a photograph of then US president Ronald Reagan with the battle-cry “He may be president of the most powerful nation on Mother earth but he’s not in the least had a pint of Mansfield” or “Not much matches Mansfield”. Up until the till 1990?s the brewery was a person of the towns biggest employers.
In the later half of 1999 the brewery was sold in a Ł253million stock to its recent owners “Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries” which was followed in 2001 with the trend of shaping thoroughly of the town to other parts of the country. The place of the former brewery fell into a state of disrepair in advance of being fully demolished in 2008, the situation has been up an eye to yard sale but has failed to invite any buyers. Proposals own been pur advance to transfor the neighbourhood into offices, vacation facilities and residential developments.
Terseness
These days the public sector is one of the largest employers in the region with myriad people employed in in the open sector roles or so called parapublic sector roles. sole of the largest employer in the area is Mansfield Area Council.
In counting up to the public sector there is a solid retail sector in the acreage centred around the significant supermarket fuddy-duddy in the middle of the town. There is also the monstrous shopping complex the “Four Seasons Cluster” containing profuse unrestrained b generally moniker stores such as a large Primark, Topshop and W.H Smith.
The night-time conciseness in
Mansfield is also a large provenance of use in the section and executive an eye to a substantive element of the towns economy. The town has numberless pubs around the metropolis centre including 2 Weatherspoons and a Yates wine lodge. The energy focus of the night-life are the prominent night clubs in the community centre.