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| kinza Quote | Reply | | families of langley mill posted on: 7/5/2004 10:10:56 PM HI does anyone remember the big families of langley mill ? i am from the EADIE family, we lived on east veiw terrace next to the gas tanks, also used to be called penders row! Then there was the HASLAMS of milnhay road, and the HARVEY and HENSONS of cromford road. I now live in nottingham and often pop back to langley mill with my sons to show them my past. I find it now quite sad that langley mill, this bustling busy shoppers paradise that once was in the 60s and early 70s has now gone, kinza. |
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RMMee
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replied on: 7/6/2004 2:59:02 AM Hello Kinza Yes, I remember them all. I was at school with one of the Eadie family - didn't you move to Cromford Road later, just past Argyle Street - and I reckon with at least one of the Haslams and Hensons. I'm in the same boat - don't live in Langley Mill any more, but keep going back. And yes, it is sad - the whole thriving industry that was Langley Mill has disappeared. What can you remember about East View Terrace and the gas tanks? I can picture the scene still (I lived on Ebenezer Street from about '62 to '66), but much of it is blurred vision!! And what about the scrap yard, if that's what it was, at the bottom of North Street (where there is now a bit of a car park) - can you remember that? I was caught playing in there once by my mum (my memory says there was a tank in there, but that was probably just my fantasy), and got a good hiding for my trouble! Thanks for taking part in the forum. Cheers Robert Mee |
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replied on: 7/6/2004 11:00:17 AM Hi rob yes we did move to cromford road, the council had to knock two houses into one for us,well there was 13 of us! 115 cromford road next door to kettering tyres. There must have been a black cloud over cromford road that day! East view terrace and the gas tanks are my fondest memories, after all the gas tanks were our playground and dont forget that pickersgill and frost (canlin castings)were at the end of the street, also Alan Eyres,who i think made office furniture. The scrapyard that you refer to at the bottom of north street, was a haulage firm, and the tank that you saw could have been a bulldozer or dumper, i cant remember the name, my uncle used to work there, i will try and find out. Anyway, back to east view terrace, it was a row of 14 houses,everyone called it penders row, doesn,t it sound great, East view terrace! and the view! wow, two big bloody great gas tanks, but as kids, they were fantastic,what a playground. Aristoc was another one of our favourite places, you will probably remember the double decker buses that used to line up on north street to bring and take the hundreds of workers, well, the canteen that used to feed all these people was a great place for free food,! we found out that between the hours of 7 and 8 on certain evenings the canteen would be empty of people but the food was left out, maybe for the nightshift, we just helped ourselves and went onto the railway bridge to scoff our "find". There was also a little field at east view terrace, where we used to play football, Ebeneezer st. vs our lot, do you remember dave lime or line? nigel fewster or patrick hempsall ? all from ebo street. what about the shop on north street! think it was called townsends, and the man who lived a few houses down from the shop who used to frighten the life out of us, i think his name was harry, a dirty looking old man that chewed tobacco and spit everywhere. Derek turtons shop, near the bottom of north st. loved that shop, can still smell the parafin heater he had on to keep warm in winter, and who could forget stan, in the beeroff on the corner of north st. we always called the shop ' pies'. Happy and sad memories of growing up in langley mill. but at least we could play out and roam around in those days, it was safe, not like today. cheers kinza. |
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replied on: 7/8/2004 11:22:45 AM Have a list of all the Eadie's in the 1901 census for England and Wales if of interest. It shows only 248 entries and looks like the name may have originated in Scotland. Peter Chamberlain |
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RMMee
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replied on: 7/9/2004 5:26:36 PM Yes, much of it is very familiar. I certainly remember the shops on North Street - there was also Walter the cobbler, just between Turton's and the Erewash - Walter Mayne was a fantastic bloke, and was very much into the canal restoration. I remember you moving into Cromford Road - probably my parents warned me to have nothing to do with you!!! (by that time I too lived on Cromford Road, opposite Gladstone Street). For those who don't know, Kettering Tyres, at the junction of Argyle Street, was previously a chapel. If they had to knock two houses into one on Cromford Road, how did you manage on Pender's Row? The houses there weren't exactly huge! I can't remember the field on East View Terrace, but I do remember Patrick Hempshall. In relation to the buses coming to Aristoc, I learned recently that there were 14 buses each dinnertime - and no doubt more at the start and end of the day - a huge number of people working in what was nowhere near the biggest employer in the area. The footbridge over the railway was a regular haunt of mine too - and, when they closed the railway station down, the passages under the track were even better for playing in. Later on, probably around 1969, I used to play on the railway itself - there was a workers' hut, near where the branch line over towards Moorgreen separated from the main line, which a group of us used as a den. The beer-off was called "Pye's," because Joseph Pye was the licensee for 20 years up until 1962 - it kept the name for years after he'd gone. The member of your family who was in the same year as me, was, I think, called Rodney. I can remember him at infant school, on Elnor Street, and possibly at Sedgwick Street juniors too, but don't recall him after that. I see that somebody called Eadie has recently signed the visitors book at the Heanor Heritage Centre - you, or another member of the family, I wonder? Anyway, it's brilliant the way that just the odd thing brings back the memories - I'll be glad to hear more, and, although there's no-one else joining in at the moment, I suspect that this is being read by many more! Cheers Robert 
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replied on: 7/12/2004 10:30:40 PM yes rob it was myself and my two sons that visited the heritage centre, my youngest was fascinated with the old typewriter! but says he prefers his computer and printer! "How did we manage on penders row" you asked, well as kids we knew no different, didnt everyone sleep 4 or 5 to a bed?! yes those little houses were pokey to say the least, and at one stage my grandma came to live with us, so there were 14 of us in that tiny place, 3 small bedrooms an even smaller boxroom on the end of one of the bedrooms made up our sleeping quarters! two rooms and a tiny kitchen downstairs, no hot water or heating system, toilet was at the top of the garden, we had a bucket at the top of the stairs, and with 14 people using it, it got pretty full and i had the job of emptying it every morning, on more than one occasion i fell down the stairs carrying it! made a lovely water feature,cascading down all 13 treads of the stairs! funny how i remember that there were 13 treads to the staircase and I bounced off every one of them! I could tell you some stories about my upbringing on east view terrace and cromford road, some of them funny but most very sad, but that as they say is another story. We were poor, very poor but we were happy. Maybe we should start a new thread : on growing up in langley mill in the 60s and 70s:? take care kinza. |
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replied on: 8/22/2004 7:52:05 PM A couple more large family names that you may remember from the 60s 70s. Brooks family Oxley family THIS site is far too quiet!! I may be an Eadie, and you probably would have been told by your mums, not to play or speak to me!!!!!!! but come on guys! that was 30 odd years ago. Pete Chamberlain, if you are reading this, I did try to contact you via private email, but never heard from you. Would you please contact me. Rob, thanks for a great website, it must take a lot of time and energy, let's hope more people chip in with their memories. Thanks Kinza. |
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RMMee
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replied on: 8/23/2004 7:53:52 PM Kinza I remember one or two of the Brooks' family. I knew some Oxley's, but the family I knew certainly wasn't a large one, so I suspect that they were a different branch. The site may be quiet (but much busier than another history site I visit) - we need to get it busier, so any ideas you can come up with would be appreciated. But don't worry, I'll keep talking!!!! (I don't actually think there's that many Langley Mill folk of our sort of age using the site at present, but they'll find it one day!) Thanks for the comments about the site - I'm hoping that next month's update on the main website will include a page on "local place names," including "The Puzzle" and "Pender's Row" - subject to time. |
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replied on: 8/24/2004 2:07:42 PM HI rob The 'puzzle'. Now there's a word i havent heard in years. There used to be an orchard at the back of the puzzle, lost count of the times i got caught 'scrumpin' in there. Rob, do you have the site address advertised anywhere? Ripley and Heanor news or the heritage centre? I found it purely by accident when i googled langley mill . kinza. |
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replied on: 9/13/2004 5:50:29 PM Wasn't one of the streets around the puzzle called Orchard Street? Maybe that's where the orchard was?I can remember one family from the puzzle-the Broaders-think one of them still lives in that area today. |
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replied on: 9/14/2004 3:45:03 AM Orchard Street was indeed on the Puzzle (along with Regent Street, Hampden Street, and West Street) - the orchard was originally at the back of the Baptist chapel on Station Road, so it all fits in nicely. The orchard was owned, in the 1850's, by John Bakewell, who was manager of the gasworks for a while. (And if anyone wants to start talking about the gas works - that brings back a few memories - can I suggest you start a new topic!) Incidentally Kinza, I found an old school photo this weekend which includes one of your brothers on it! |
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replied on: 9/14/2004 6:18:17 PM Lots of big families in the 60s/70s, remember the Colbournes? There were thousands of them, well about 11 of them to be honest, and seven of the Lewises and six of the Daleys, all kids at the same time so there were always hordes of us running around Langley Mill. I remember the Brooks and the Oxleys too but only knew about two each of them and didnt realise they were big families. |
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replied on: 9/14/2004 7:46:55 PM Yes, i had forgotten the colbourn family! i remember having a fight with one of them, outside langley mill church hall. The oxleys, i think there was 7 of them, but had cousins living near as well. kinza. |
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replied on: 9/24/2004 8:55:58 PM Hi I am into family history a big time and info on the Angell Family of Langley mill Any I do have a lot of info but all ways after more the family was WJ ANGELL and Albert Angell Also the Stone Family C Stone And his bro i have info on the pickersgill & frost but after more and i have a list in date order for the council of events that wj was conected, sorry to be breff yours kev |
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replied on: 9/25/2004 12:41:41 AM Hi, Kev. I used to know Harry Stone. He worked as a Borer down Coppice Colliery during the late 1950s. Unfortunately he passed away around the 1960 mark. Was/is he related to the people you're searching for? Azzabuv. |
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replied on: 9/25/2004 9:25:31 AM Is Albert Angell the man who played the organ at the Wesleyan Chaple at Langley Mill |
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