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| RMMee Moderator Quote | Reply | | Milnhay Road posted on: 8/20/2003 7:08:59 PM The three-storey houses on Milnhay Road, on the Langley side of the Elnor Street junction, had a local name at some time in the past. Does anyone know what it was? I was told by somebody at the Heritage Centre the first time I went, but I didn't make a note of it. Did these houses have a specific purpose? They are quite different to the rest of the village. What was at the site of the telephone exchange before it was built? When was it built? Any replies will be appreciated. |
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Peter Chamberlain
Researcher Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 8/25/2003 5:33:53 PM by Peter Chamberlain |
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replied on: 8/25/2003 5:33:03 PM Robert The Telephone exchange stands on what were originally allotments during the war. Later the 1st Aldercar and Langley Mill Scout Troop had a wooden headquarters erected this being pulled down to make way for the exchange. I would assume the land belonged to the Council |
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RMMee
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replied on: 8/25/2003 6:24:17 PM Thanks Peter (knew you'd answer that one!) But when I was a kid (60's) there was still a wooden scout hut on Milnhay Road, between the phone exchange and the entrance to Vic Hallam's, wasn't there? Or am I thinking back to pre-phone exchange days? I actually went to cubs there for maybe two weeks! I was told yesterday that the row of houses I was querying was called "Sparrow Row." Can anyone confirm that, as it is not a name I have heard of. What about other old-names for streets or rows of houses. |
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Peter Chamberlain
Researcher Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 8/27/2003 4:01:20 PM by Peter Chamberlain |
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replied on: 8/27/2003 4:00:01 PM Robert You are right the first part of the telephone exchange and the scout hut stood side by side for a while until the second part was built.The scout hut was then moved to the Langley end of Milnhay road and stood between the last council house and Bailey Brook, on the right hand side.Does anyone recall the first exchange no more than a glorified switchboard in someones front room on Station Road near to Nellie Outram's Shop |
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RMMee
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replied on: 8/28/2003 4:27:56 AM Peter Can you put a rough date on the move of the scout hut? Now that you say it, it does ring a bell, but I would guess early to mid 70's for the move. Where on Station Road was Nellie Outram's? I haven't got a note of the name of the person, but in the 1901 Census there was a telephone operator living at 82 Station Road. (The houses have been renumbered since then, but this was certainly on the Nottinghamshire side of the railway bridge.) |
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Peter Chamberlain
Researcher Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 8/30/2003 7:59:38 AM by Peter Chamberlain |
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replied on: 8/30/2003 7:58:58 AM Robert Nellie Outram's Shop was about 6 houses down from the corner of Milnhay Road towards Nottingham She sold ladies hats and hat pins. Also on this side of the road in the 1940s was the telephone exchange,the reddifusion distribution equipment (in the front room of the Fowkes family)and a small general store next to the Bank on the corner of Elnor Street.To complete the square Miss Parker had a General Store at the top of Elnor Street and Milnhay Road.On Milnhay Road itself we had Eyres Shop,a little wooden shop run by 2 sisters who lived in the council houses across the way.This was situated where the gate now enters the Telephone Exchange Compound.Last but not least a small shop was run by the Bowles family in the first house in the row of cottages on the left at the Langley end of Milnhay Road. |
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RMMee
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replied on: 8/31/2003 6:12:35 PM Two discoveries today: The older part of the telephone exchange was built in 1955 - there is an ER stone built into the wall, with the date on it. I was talking to a nephew of the Eyre's who ran the wooden shop this afternoon. Apparently, the shop was originally further up Milnhay Road towards Langley, but was moved (literally picked up and put on rollers) to it's later position, by Sissons the Builders. Not sure when. The allotments which were next to the phone exchange were certainly there as late as 1959. |
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Russell Saxton
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replied on: 11/13/2003 10:50:59 PM I can remember the wooden scout hut on Milnhay Road when it was down nearer to the railway,where the houses ended. It was certainly there in the early/mid 1970s because my mate went to it. |
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