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kinza
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replied on: 9/11/2005 4:59:14 PM I remember bill phillips well, used to drool over all the new bikes in his shop that we could not afford!! Kinza. |
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suzard
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replied on: 9/11/2005 10:56:55 PM Billy Phillips died sadly a number of years ago-his son David was only in his 20's when he died suddenly-I don't think Bill ever recovered from the shock of that |
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lankey bill
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replied on: 12/22/2005 9:48:12 PM according to my mum bill philips used to do credit 'terms' on the bikes... I mentioned this to an old langley mill mate recently and he told me the saddest story that his mum got the old 'weekly payment' on a Chopper but as she was unable to keep up the payments and the bike had to be taken back....! how sad is that?!? you are 100% right about langley mill nowdays... although it isn't so much 'sad' but it's certainly lost any 'heart' it once had... Up until I was 13 I grew up on Ormonde Street (Aldercar) and in honesty, as kids we had SOD ALL, that was the one thing we ALL had in common!! at least we didn't have to have the latest Nike Trainers like todays kids... black plimsolls... those were the days!! btw.... went to school with your brother Patrick and remember playing round the gas tanks years after East View was demolished... there was a crackin rope swing there |
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briyeo
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replied on: 12/28/2005 8:01:13 PM I remember Bill Phillips, he used to be in a shop selling radios TV'S etc. across from the Midland hotel where the car dealer is now, we used to buy 1/4 inch square rubber from him to use on catapults, you could also buy shotgun cartridges. When he was in the wooden building, where the car park is, he mainly sold bikes. My parents bought me a bike one Christmas about 1960, I can recall Bill parking his pale green Morris J van at our gate, I was sent into another room, but could hear the obvious sound effects of a bicycle being wheeled down the path and into the coal house, to magically reappear Christmas morning. I was at school with his son David, very sad that he died so young. |
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suzard
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replied on: 12/28/2005 8:18:24 PM Billy moved across the road from the shop on the Croft(now a car park) to the corner of Bridge St and Cromford Rd-he had much more space for his bikes-and he also bred German Shepherds there. I still hear news of David's wife, Susan,as far as I know she never remarried. Billy's sister in law married Horace Pearson of the scrapyard. Brian-saw Heather and she was checking the site for the Coop photo-she was really pleased |
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russlynch
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replied on: 2/9/2006 7:21:07 PM HI I WAS READING THAT SOME OF YOU REMEMBER LOTS ABOUT DEREK TURTONS SHOP ON NORTH STREET. MY LATE FATHER (JACK LYNCH) WHO PASSED AWAY LAST YEAR USED TO OWN THE FLATS IN WHICH DEREKS SHOP COULD BE FOUND. I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO HEAR ANY STORIES ABOUT THE SHOP,FLATS AND OF ANY OF THE IRISH GUYS WHO USED TO BOARD IN THE FLATS OVER THE YEARS.ALSO ANY TALES ABOUT MY DAD WOULD BE APRECIATED. THANKS RUSS |
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RMMee
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replied on: 2/10/2006 12:12:18 AM Hello Russ, and welcome to the site. I can remember the shop, but can't remember much about it, and know nothing about the people upstairs. What I do know, is that the building was originally built as a hotel (I've seen adverts for it) sponsored by the temperence society - no booze allowed. After a very short time, I believe that the ground floor was a coffee house as well, presumably before it became a shop. I hope you will get some more recent responses, as mine deals with the early days of the building, some 120 years ago. |
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russlynch
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replied on: 2/10/2006 9:55:04 AM hi robert thanx for the early info on my dads old flats. I know very little about them prior th tne late 1950's when my dad came over from ireland first as one of the lodgers sent to the area by the labour exchange,i have some early photos of his first job at G R Turners which promted me to look into the flats history. |
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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 2/10/2006 10:08:58 AM In the 1930s the upstairs was a Snooker Hall and my father was responsible for keeping the cloth on the tables ironed.Later after the war the place was used for a short period as a Youth Club |
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russlynch
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replied on: 2/10/2006 10:22:35 AM thanx peter thats ineresting as i remember some of the rooms being very large my dads lounge being the biggest.also the original light fittings are now explainable as they were in strange places. |
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kinza
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replied on: 2/16/2006 1:32:16 PM quote: Yes it was a great rope swing Been along time since ive been called patrick. |
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frontcentre
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replied on: 2/23/2006 7:01:45 AM Anybody remember Gills - grocer I believe and Eric Luker - Shoes? |
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suzard
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replied on: 2/23/2006 8:45:20 AM I remember Eric Luker very well-Cromford Rd opposite Midland Hotel (now the Mill)-think he is mentioned on Shops topic. Was Gills th grocers next door? |
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frontcentre
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replied on: 2/23/2006 2:19:55 PM quote: Yes - Gills was next door. Remember being taken to Lukers for my sandals - those brown leather t-strap things with a crepe sole! |
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suzard
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replied on: 2/23/2006 8:18:58 PM I remember those -I also remember having the toes cut out of the previous summer's sandals so they would still fit -then we could wear them for "playing in". I also recall everyone (well females) rushing to Lukers for black ballerina pumps- a kind of fashionable plimsole-canvas slip ons with a fabric daisy on the front topped with a shoelace bow-our mothers diapproved (they were bad for your feet!!) but we saved pocket/errand money to buy them -half a crown a pair!! |
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