The re-modelled family home of Bess of Hardwick, one of the richest and most remarkable women of Elizabethan England, stands beside Hardwick New Hall which she had built later in the 1590s. Though the Old Hall is now roofless, visitors can still ascend four floors to...

Hands on interactive exhibits based around the process of making things. Modern exhibits, computer technology, The Idea, Design, Testing, Marketing, Advertising, Waste Management and making a kit with component parts to take home.

The Mansfield Society of Artists Annual Exhibition opens on Saturday 3 July and runs until Saturday 31 July. In the other main gallery the James Maude Camera Club will be showing their work from Saturday 3 to Saturday 24 July. It’s well worth a visit to see the...

Durban House Heritage Centre is the sister site of the D.H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum in Eastwood, near Nottingham. It contains an exhibition on the social history of Eastwood during the time that the writer lived there. In addition there is an art gallery, a small...

Newstead Abbey, in Nottinghamshire, England, originally an Augustinian priory, is now best known as the ancestral home of Lord Byron. Visitors interested in historic houses can linger over displays and reading material in the Library, or marvel at the expansive...

This is Britain's finest Victorian Water Works and the only one in the  Midlands to be preserved as a complete working water pumping station.  Papplewick Pumping Station was built between 1882 - 1884 to supplement  the water supply for the growing city of...

One of the most splendid houses in England. Built by Bess of Hardwick in the 1590s, and unaltered since: yet its huge windows and high ceilings make it feel strikingly modern.

The imposing shell of a grandiose Georgian mansion built in 1724-29, with an immensely columned exterior. Roofless since 1919, when its interiors were dismantled and some exported to America: but there is still much to discover within, including traces of sumptuous...

The vast and immensely impressive ruins of a palatial medieval manor house arranged round a pair of courtyards, with a huge undercrofted Great Hall and a defensible High Tower 22 metres (72 feet) tall. This monument to late medieval ‘conspicuous consumption'...

This is the house where David Herbert Richards Lawrence was born in 1885, and the first of the Lawrence family's four Eastwood homes. Through a guided tour you will be able to learn about his family life and the type of working class home and mining community that...