[2] Part of the site was used to accommodate Mansfield Secondary Technical School, taking students from 1945 housed in the Nissen huts that had been left by the US Army.

It was officially opened by Sir Hubert Houldsworth, Chairman of the East Midlands Division of the National Coal Board on 22 June 1948.

This involved submerging a grid of 140 stainless steel plates into the water at the deepest point, connected to the hospital via twin 350-millimetre (14 in) pipes laid under the A38 dual carriageway road.

[8] Millside Radio provides entertainment for patients via a Hospedia wired network from in-house studios run by volunteers.

Established during 1989 in an attic room at the old Dukeries Maternity Centre, the station was officially opened by Jeremy Beadle in 1990.