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| RMMee Moderator Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 11/11/2003 11:41:47 PM by RMMee | Heanor Market Place posted on: 11/11/2003 11:08:14 PM Lots could be written about the Market Place (in fact, I've just written an article for a publication that Amber Valley District Council are preparing for later this month!). But, as a starter for ten, here's an old postcard, dated 1922. Thanks to Don in Canada for supplying it.  |
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elainebond
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Heanor Market Place
replied on: 1/11/2004 6:35:15 PM My Great Grandparents John William and Sarah Jane Cook owned a shop on Heanor Market Place, I would love any information about the shop all I know is that it passed on to my Grandparents Fredrick and Edith Pinegar. |
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Cornishcream
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Heanor Market Place
replied on: 1/21/2004 2:45:27 PM My mother who is in her 70's believes the shop was a grocer's, where she used to buy packets of "special china tea" in the 1940's |
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Azzabuv
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Heanor Market Place
replied on: 9/7/2004 10:18:35 AM Does anyone remember the 'Fresh Fish Bar/Shop', which was situated to the right of the shops on the right-hand side of the above photograph. I believe the shop was still there around the late 50s - early 60s. Deliciously good fresh food. Azzabuv.  |
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chrisbrin
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Heanor Market Place
replied on: 9/9/2004 8:50:20 AM I remember going in there with my Mum. Was it part of the COOP? |
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Azzabuv
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Heanor Market Place
replied on: 9/9/2004 1:16:41 PM Ha. That's set me thinking. I do remember the Co-op sign/name near that shop if it wasn't the shop itself. But i also remember a private name over the doorway. This may have been before it bacame part of the Co-op - if it did? The names and prices of the various fish were displayed in white all over the window. But the main thing i remember is the delicious smell as you entered the shop. Any of that good fish on sale was fit for a connoisseur and no doubt about it. Before the fish shop installed the large front window, didn't it use to have a numerous long slatted wooden 'Blind', which on warm sunny days, was lifted right up, exposing the shop's contents to the open air and all which that entailed (we now know - shudders) and in Winter and at closing time, was rolled down and locked? Azzabuv. |
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chrisbrin
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Heanor Market Place
replied on: 9/12/2004 12:52:16 PM Spoke to Mum and she says that the Fish Shop was not part of the CO-OP. A Mrs Slack used to serve in there, but doesn't know if she was the owner or an employee and yes the front did used to be open (with a shutter) until the window was installed. |
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frano
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Heanor Market Place
replied on: 9/28/2004 6:01:30 PM I think the fish shop with the shutter door was Hunt's. frano |
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Azzabuv
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Heanor Market Place
replied on: 9/29/2004 11:34:22 AM You could well be right. Casting my mind back, i do see the name 'Hunt' over a shop's door and window in that vicinity. Not 100% certain though. Thinking of the name 'Hunt', records keep springing to mind though? |
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Peter Chamberlain
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Heanor Market Place
replied on: 9/29/2004 5:23:03 PM Does anyone recall the icecream kiosk late 40s that stood on the market.They used to stay open to catch the kids coming out of the grammer school at 4 oclock.I think it was Pearce's from Nottingham |
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frano
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Heanor Market Place
replied on: 9/29/2004 8:13:24 PM There was another Hunt. That was Bert Hunt photgrapher.He did studio portraits etc.He also sold records and radio stuff I think. His shop was about midway in the row alongside the Cosy, near the old Post Office. |
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Azzabuv
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Heanor Market Place
replied on: 9/29/2004 10:31:10 PM That sounds more like the one i was thinking of at the back of my mind. Can you remember the name of the old radio repair shack/shop, which stood on the Ray St; Abbott St; junction, but more on the Ray St; part though? |
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Azzabuv
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Heanor Market Place
replied on: 9/30/2004 12:07:09 PM IMPORTANT request. Does anyone know how long Herbert Hunt, the photographer, had been established on the Market Place, or even elsewhere, especially concerning the Photographic Studio side of his business. Azzabuv. |
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suegill
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Heanor Market Place
replied on: 9/30/2004 4:25:06 PM from http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brett/photos/dbyphoto_index.html#H Hunt, Bert Market Place Heanor 1926-27 (Trades) 1932 (Kelly) |
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frano
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Heanor Market Place
replied on: 9/30/2004 8:39:24 PM The radio repair shop belong to Albert Richards who had another shop almost opposite next to Holmes decorators.We had to take radio accumulators there to be recharged. |
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Azzabuv
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Heanor Market Place
replied on: 9/30/2004 8:43:05 PM Ahh, i missed that one. But unfortunately he seems to be a bit early. It's specifically the years 1939-40 i'm interested in. Or did Bert's business stretch over those two years? If not,was there another photographer doing studio work in the area around the time period of the above years? All/any information welcomed. Azzabuv. |
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