ref. paintings!! Top one I believe is Pogmores Yard,at the rear of the Star Inn, on Warsop Road. I believe a Blacksmiths forge was in the block. The lower painting shows the New Inn on the left and the gap between the 2 buildings is Spring Hill leading to Grove St. The shop on the right was Bedfords, a General Dealer The shop was demolished about 1934 and Fletchers bike shop built on the site, it is now a Beauty Salon. I don't recognize the Lady holding the paintings but I believe the Artist to be J W Sims, who was a Trustee of the Trinity Methodist Church, Mansfield Woodhouse. There is information in the" Methodism in Woodhouse" book by Dorothy Coultan, a copy is in Woodhouse Library about J W Sims. There is a painting of the Old Hall by JW Sims in Turning back the Pages of Mansfield Woodhouse by Veda Kaye and Jayne Sheppard, a copy is in Woodhouse Library. Dorothy Coultan still lives in the area and maybe would know the Lady holding the paintings.I knew JW Sims brother but he died a few years ago, he had a daughter but she left the area on marriage, otherwise the elderly Chapel goers may know.

We now understand the lady in the photograph worked at Mansfield Woodhouse Library.