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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 8/5/2005 9:59:42 AM Don't no if iv'e got this right but the name Crooks rings a bell for a secondhand shop in that area. |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 8/5/2005 1:31:11 PM Didn't Birks's large clothes-shop stand on the corner of the Market Square, across from where the chemist is today? Azzabuv. |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 8/5/2005 1:54:59 PM actually you could be right about crook's.i think he ran the record shop and the second hand shop. |
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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 8/5/2005 5:25:54 PM Birks dress shop always on Corner of Mansfield Road and Hands Road |
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suzard
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replied on: 8/6/2005 4:56:21 AM Fred Crookes had the second hand shop for years and years, then his son took it over-still second hand, but changed from furniture and clothes to musical instruments and records, then to playstation games etc-now it sells Goth clothing etc-wouldn't be surprised if its still in the Crookes family.We still call the shop "Freds". |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 8/6/2005 11:44:47 PM yes i remember freds...who ever runs it now also sell swords and goodness knows what,as if we haven't enough of that element in the world today. |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 8/14/2005 11:46:22 AM i remember a shop on the corner of marshall street when i was a kid,we used to go there for sweets and then make our way down the forty steps across the fields and over what was a rubbish tip then. or we'd hang on the back of the train that ran across street and on it's way to the pits. |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 8/14/2005 12:40:07 PM Was the "40 Steps", a large iron bridge? Azzabuv. |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 8/14/2005 1:15:31 PM noooo!! it started from the bottom of the jitty off marshalls street.don't why they called it 40 steps,i never managed to count above 25. if you look from the bridge off mansfield rd near the chemsit it was about 200 yards away where the old railway line used to be. |
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Marylyn
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replied on: 8/18/2005 4:32:37 PM My grandad used to take me for walks over the forty steps when I was little. They were flights of wooden steps running up and down railway embankments. we used to walk along the old railway mostly but sometimes we'd go up the other sides across the fields that were there in those days. |
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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 8/19/2005 9:21:23 AM Used to be a set of these Steps on the Railway Line next to Doctor Holmes Surgery at the Bottom of Heanor Hill |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 8/19/2005 11:00:46 AM Ah yes, the cutting which led to Fort Peacock Town. Anyway, where's a 'Shop name' in all of this? Azzabuv. |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 8/19/2005 12:18:30 PM Gadsby's garage and car sales fore-court. At the top of Mansfield Road, below the shops and on the left. 1950/60s. Azzabuv. |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 8/19/2005 7:59:47 PM is that a shop then,gadsby garage.?? 
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annancliffe
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replied on: 8/23/2005 8:14:01 AM I remember the forty steps well. You had to walk through a very tiny "jitty" off Mansfield Road through to the steps. I would often take a short cut through here to Aldercar School in the 60's. Ann Marie |
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