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Evening Post - 4th Feb 1893

New Hucknall Colliery Institute Opened

Yesterday at Hucknall Huthwaite the new Institute was declared open. A small house in the village has been utilised for some years as a reading room, but now a handsome building has been provided in Newcastle Street, with well equipped library, reading room, billiard room, pavilion, and quoit ground and all necessary conveniences. Mr J P Adlington of Sutton-in-Ashfield has been the architect, and the work has been executed by Messrs, Gell & Sons of Nottingham, at a cost upwards of £1,000.

The building was officially opened by the Company Chairman, Mr Emerson Bainbridge. His well received speech also cautioned the audience in concern to the tumbling coal prices in a falling market, additionally being found reported in the Mansfield and North Notts Advertiser dated 10th February 1893.